Anyone who has experienced a Sunday service at The House of God Church in Orange, NJ knows how the congregation gets down and makes a joyous noise unto the Lord. Robert Randolph learned pedal steel guitar as a teenager by watching the older guys play the "Sacred Steel" music the Pentecostal Church of God denomination had been using for worship since the 1930s. This is the crucible from which Robert Randolph was cast.

Discovered by the secular world while playing at the first Sacred Steel Convention in Florida, Randolph got a gig opening for The North Mississippi All-Stars and within a month, he was playing to thousands with kooky Jazz revisionists Medeski, Martin & Wood. Minds were blown when saints and sinners alike discovered Randolph's jaw-dropping manipulation of the pedal steel guitar. Cranking his Crate amps to the max, Robert's tone combines the instrument's trademark weeping lonesome sound with searing tube amp sustain.

View the artist's website: www.robertrandolph.net