With pride I imagined how I would carve it all with love, inlaid with black Coral, turquoise, silver and shiny mother of pearl. until today where I find myself living on a yacht in Australia with eight wonderful guitars at the dubious age of fifty-eight… I even still do some gigs!īut I digress! It doesn’t matter how many guitars I’ve owned over the years … and I’ve had a few … I always had a secret desire to build one for myself. I had a great friend who lived down the street and we did everything together, so when he announced that he was going to learn to play guitar, naturally, I didn’t want to be left out! We bought a couple of new guitars and practiced a lot together, even on a cold winter night, we went to the local laundry to practice when our people kicked us out! … Yes, my enthusiasm has never waned throughout my great hippie youth. I’ve been playing acoustic guitars for almost as long as I can remember. If this is God's work, imagine what would happen if the devil got a hold of these guys! -Marc Greilsamer Pass Me Not: Sacred Steel Guitars, Vol.SeptemThe five secrets to building a Weissenborn guitarįor more than twenty years I had always been very curious about building a guitar. Youngest brother Darick trades lap-steel licks with Chuck on three standout cuts and offers an urgent vocal workout on one live tune recorded at their father's church. And when Katie Jackson delivers her wrought-up and commanding vocals, the intensity is almost too much to bear.

The sheer number of distinct tones he coaxes is amazing. On his pedal steel, Chuck is capable of otherworldly shouts and wails, melodic beauty, and speedy runs of head-spinning alacrity. The Campbell Brothers, led by incredible pedal-steel guitarist Chuck and electric guitarist-bassist Phil, play an almost insurgent brand of sacred-steel music-a form with deep ties to the Church of the Living God, Keith Dominion-that adds the urgency of rock, the exploration of jazz, and the grit of the blues to its roots. 'p'If, as many sacred musicians believe, the blues is 'devil's music,' who, pray tell, is responsible for the feverish music on this sacred-steel record? Sorry to say, this music is nasty in the most righteous sense of the word. Highlights include the title track, 'Charles' Holy Jam,' 'Walk with Me Lord' and more. A follow-up to the highly acclaimed original Sacred Steel Guitar release, Pass Me Not by The Campbell Brothers showcases the newest generation of sacred steel guitarists.

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