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Willie Eason performing steel guitar music at his home

Date: 1994-01-16
Description: One audio cassette recording. This tape consisted of excerpts of a longer recording of Eason, recorded at his home. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
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Willie Eason performing steel guitar music at his home

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Date: 1997-05-25
Description: One audio cassette recording. The Willie Eason interview and song, "Roosevelt", continues from C97-86. Laurie Sommers interviews Eileen Brautman on the subject of Jewish marriage contracts.
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Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Date: 1997-05-25
Description: One audio cassette recording. Willie Eason (St. Petersburg, FL), interviewed by Bob Stone, discusses sacred steel music. Continued on C97-87.
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Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)

Date: 2007-05-25
Description: One compact disc. Stone served as emcee. The Lee Boys were a sacred steel band, and consisted of Alvin Lee (guitar), Alvin Cordy (Electric bass), Derrick Lee (vocals), Keith Lee (vocals), Roosevelt Collier (steel guitar), and Earl Walker (drums). They are based out of the House of God Holiness Pentecostal Church in Perrine, Florida.
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Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)

Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Date: 1999-05-30
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 1)

Date: 1998-05-24
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT).
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Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Date: 1997-05-25
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT). The performances (and recording) were interrupted several times due to thunderstorms. This was final recording of this stage -- the final recording was lost before the material was transferred to the Florida State Archives. The index for that recording can be found in S 1579, box 6, folder 13.
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Sunday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Date: 1994-05-29
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT). Storyteller Louis served as emcee. Louis and Fitchen told stories and sang to fill in for the scheduled gospel group Versiteers. Blues guitarist Book Binder lived in Polk City, and discussed the history of the songs he performed. Folklorist Stone introduced steel guitarist Ghent by providing a history of the sacred steel tradition.
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Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Date: 1994-05-29
Description: One digital audio tape (DAT). (Copied onto C94-102/103) Hoovler served as the emcee. Polk City-based guitarist Book Binder performed blues music. Ghent, discovered by Florida folklorist Robert Stone, performed "Sacred Steel" music - a form of black gospel performed on the steel guitar (aka the Hawaiian guitar), At the time, he was involved in the Folk Arts Apprenticeship program.
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Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Sonny Treadway performing two takes of This is a Holy Church

Date: 1994-10-12
Description: One audio cassette recording. The Sacred Steel Guitar Recording Project originated in 1992 when Florida Folklife Program folklorist Robert Stone discovered that several predominantly African American House of God churches (a sub-sect of the Pentecostal church) in the St. Petersburg area were using steel guitars in their religious services. The practice began by Willie and Troman Eason in the 1930s, and expanded upon by players such as Henry Nelson and Lorenzo Harrison. Realizing that this was a unique musical tradition, labeled Sacred Steel, the Florida Folklife Program to applied for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to conduct fieldwork and create a music album for public dispersal. The aim of the project was to increase public awareness of the gospel steel guitar tradition, as well as document it for future generations. Matched with state funds, the grant period originally ran from October 1993 through October 1994, but was extended for another year. In that time Stone, along with sound engineers William Dudley and Mike Stapleton, interviewed and recorded several steel guitarists in the St. Petersburg area. An album entitled Sacred Steel was released in 1995. It was then re-released through an agreement with Arhoolie Records in 1997.
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Sonny Treadway performing two takes of This is a Holy Church

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a_s1576_68_c97-087	Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)	Sound	Singers Musicians Guitarist Artists Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Oral performance Life histories Interviewing African Americans Steel guitars Guitar music Gospel (Black) Gospel music Gospel musicians Religious music Religious songs Personal experience narratives Arts, Jewish Jewish Americans Jewish art and symbolism Ketubah Marriage contracts	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg
a_s1576_68_c97-086	Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Oral performance Life histories Interviewing African Americans Steel guitars Guitar music Gospel (Black) Gospel music Gospel musicians Religious music Religious songs Personal experience narratives Singers Musicians Guitarist	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2034_04_cd03-115	Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)	Sound	Guitarist Festivals Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Musical tradition, sacred Steel guitars Gospel (Black) African Americans Gospel music Gospel songs Religious songs Religious music Bands (Music)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_79_d99-031	Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Rock music Popular songs Surf music Guitar music Martial arts Japanese Americans Arts, Asian Demonstrations Steel guitars Musicians Bands (Music) Martial artists	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_77_d98-016	Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 1)	Sound	Singers Musicians Guitarist Storytellers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Guitar music Steel guitars Old time music String bands Stringband music Gospel music Gospel (Black) Gospel songs Religious songs Religious music Storytelling Bands (Music)	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_77_d97-009	Sunday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Steel guitars African Americans Haitian Americans Storytelling Oral narratives Oral performance Dance Irish Americans Irish dance Singers Dancers Bands (Music) Fiddlers Musicians Storytellers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_44_d94-032	Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Old time music Steel guitars Musical ensembles Guitar music Gospel (Black) African Americans Haitian Americans Storytelling Sing alongs Blues (Music) Musicians Guitarist Folklorists Storytellers Blues singers Singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s1576_43_d94-020	Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)	Sound	Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Music performance Singing Blues (Music) Guitar music African Americans Steel guitars Gospel (Black) Gospel music Gospel musicians Gospel songs Religious music Religious songs Singers Guitarist Musicians Blues singers	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg
a_s2044_02_tape07	Sonny Treadway performing two takes of This is a Holy Church	Sound	Guitarist Singers Fieldwork Steel guitars Guitar music Performing arts Guitarists Music performance African Americans Religious songs Religious music Gospel songs Gospel musicians Gospel (Black) Bands (Music) Musical groups Churches Religion Christianity Protestants Musicians	/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg

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Willie Eason performing steel guitar music at his home

Willie Eason performing steel guitar music at his home

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)

Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)

Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Sonny Treadway performing two takes of This is a Holy Church

Sonny Treadway performing two takes of This is a Holy Church

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Willie Eason performing steel guitar music at his home

Willie Eason performing steel guitar music at his home

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 2)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)

Sunday performances at the 2003 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Stage) (Disc 7)

Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1998 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Performance & Dance Stage) (Tape 1)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Old Marble Stage) (Tape 3)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Sunday performances at the 1994 Florida Folk Festival (Main Stage) (Tape 7)

Sonny Treadway performing two takes of This is a Holy Church

Sonny Treadway performing two takes of This is a Holy Church