Jesus Will Fix It! Sacred Steel Guitar Instrumentals

Editorial Reviews
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One doesn't associate the guitar with gospel music, except perhaps as a rhythmic complement to the keyboards that traditionally dominate the music. For the Keith and Jewel Dominions of the Church of the Living God, however, steel guitar has long lead the charge. Florida's Sonny Treadway has been playing at Jewel Dominion services for something like six decades, in the process developing into a leading practitioner of sacred-steel music, as this 12-track collection illustrates. Recorded over the course of two days in 1997 with Treadway backed by second guitarist Ronnie Mozee and drummer Derrick Glen (the frontman is able to handle bass lines with his self-customized eight-string nonpedal steel), Jesus Will Fix It! is a splendid initiation into the blessings of the sacred-steel sound. Treadway's assortment of traditionals and originals are alternately fervid (listen to the gasps and whirls he creates in the title track) and serene ("Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine"), like the faith it espouses. --Steven Stolder

Tracks:

Jesus Will Fix It For You
Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine
How I Got Over
Lord I Put My Trust In You
Create In Me A Clean Heart
No, Never Alone
Praise In Remembrance Of Bishop Lorenzo Harrison
Hallelujah Anyhow
When I've Gone The Last Mile Of The Way
I Read That Letter
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Holy, Holy, Holy

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One doesn't associate the guitar with gospel music, except perhaps as a rhythmic complement to the keyboards that traditionally dominate the music. For the Keith and Jewel Dominions of the Church of the Living God, however, steel guitar has long lead the charge. Florida's Sonny Treadway has been playing at Jewel Dominion services for something like six decades, in the process developing into a leading practitioner of sacred-steel music, as this 12-track collection illustrates. Recorded over the course of two days in 1997 with Treadway backed by second guitarist Ronnie Mozee and drummer Derrick Glen (the frontman is able to handle bass lines with his self-customized eight-string nonpedal steel), Jesus Will Fix It! is a splendid initiation into the blessings of the sacred-steel sound. Treadway's assortment of traditionals and originals are alternately fervid (listen to the gasps and whirls he creates in the title track) and serene ("Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine"), like the faith it espouses. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

The 3rd volume of sacred steel guitar.......2000-09-10

My first reaction on hearing this cd was "just another release for the fad" - after all was the surprise cross-over success of the original sacred steel guitar supportable by the few musicians performing this style over ennumerable recordings?

However, on a second hearing I realized that Sonny Treadway's take on the music is most enjoyable in a series of his own work rather than intermingled with other sacred steel guitar musicians. He is backed by guitar and drums; there are no vocals. His appears to be a very improvisational style with some marvelous use of call-and-response where the steel guitar's high and low ranges repeat each other. Two of the pieces are his own compositions - they are strong cuts which confirm his musical talents.

The strongest cuts are the title cut and "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" although "I Read That Letter" shows his improvisation at its best. "Create In Me a Clean Heart", his own composition, is one that will remain (and run thru) your mind.

Could be more upbeat........1999-08-03

Being a member of the Church of the Living God, I know this music. Mr Treadway, is a good musician, without question. But I fail to see why the music played during the church services were not incorporated in this CD. He could have played the improvised tunes so familiar to the Church as well as the well known songs. That is one important thing lacking in this CD.

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