| a_s1576_68_c97-084 | Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 14, 15) | 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
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Saturday program at the 1997 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tapes 14, 15)
- Date
- 1997-05-24
- Description
- Two audio cassette recordings. Sonny Treadway and Willie Eason, interviewed by Bob Stone, discuss sacred steel music and the history of their music. Treadway describes the making of his instrument and his mentor, Bishop Lorenzo Harrison. Stone mentions Eason's ability to make his steel guitar sound like a human voice. They perform several songs -- many of which were unidentified.
- Collection
| a_s2044_02_tape08 | Sonny Treadway performing Hold to Gods Unchanging Hand | 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 |
Sonny Treadway performing Hold to Gods Unchanging Hand
- Date
- 1994
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. Rough mix recording of the song. 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.
- Collection
| a_s2044_02_tape04 | Sonny Treadway performing sacred steel music with a band at a House of God 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)
Musical groups
Churches
Religion
Christianity
Protestants
Bands (Music)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Sonny Treadway performing sacred steel music with a band at a House of God church
- Date
- 1994-02-20
- Description
- One audio cassette recording. Made during the last day of the annual State Assembly of the Jewell Dominion churches of Florida. These are excerpts from a longer 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.
- Collection
| 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 |
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.
- Collection
| 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_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_s2044_02_tape01 | Willie Eason performing steel guitar music at his home | 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)
Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
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.
- Collection
| FA940501C | Gospel guitarist Willie Eason posing with his lap steel guitar in Florida. | | Stringed instruments
Musical instruments
Steel guitar
Plucked instruments
Guitar
African American entertainers--Portraits
Folk musicians--Portraits
African American country musicians--Portraits
African American musicians--Portraits
Instrumentalists--Portraits
Stringed instrument players--Portraits
Plucked instrument players--Portraits
African American guitarists--Portraits
Gospel musicians--Portraits | /fpc/folklife/Fa940501c.gif |
| FA940501B | Gospel musician Willie Eason playing the piano in Florida. | | Piano--Performance
African American entertainers
Folk musicians
African American country musicians
Gospel musicians
African American musicians
African American guitarists
Pianists
Instrumentalists | /fpc/folklife/Fa940501b.gif |
| FA940501A | Gospel guitarist Willie Eason playing his lap steel guitar in Florida. | | Stringed instruments
Musical instruments
Bottleneck (Guitar playing)
Steel guitar
Plucked instruments
Guitar
African American entertainers
Folk musicians
African American country musicians
African American musicians
Instrumentalists
Stringed instrument players
Plucked instrument players
African American guitarists
Gospel musicians | /fpc/folklife/Fa940501a.gif |
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