Sure wish I could make it to this. I just read this review in the current issue of Rolling Stone.
Calvin Cooke, Robert Randolf, Willie Eason and the Cambell brothers, Chuck and Derrick, are not guitar gods. They play screaming steels for the glory of God on Sacred Steel-Live, an incandescent survey, cut mostly during real services, of an extraodinary subgengre of Pentecostal church music. The vocal testimony is enough to give you shivers, but the bowed-head sublimity of Cooke and Eason's pick'n'glide will have you on your knees in awe. And the Cambells tandem hosannas on lap and pedal-steel in "God is a Good God" and "Sit Down If You Can" (they're not kidding) will scare Satan out of any amplifier. Imagine if Jeff Beck got religion or if Junior Brown traded in his Stetson for a pastor's collar. Then pray for volume Two.[This message was edited by Jim Peter on 30 March 2000 at 09:43 AM.]
