ORANGE, New Jersey -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph learned ...

Before 1999, when Arhoolie Records in El Cerrito began issuing recordings of "sacred steel" music, few outside the little-known House of God network of Pentecostal churches had heard the blistering, ...

Growing up with the goal of becoming the best steel player in his church, Robert Randolph went on to become a four-time Grammy-nominated pedal steel guitarist. Randolph also became ranked 97th on ...

Randolph began playing the steel guitar at the age of 16 in 1994, when Chuck Campbell, pedal steel player in the Sacred Steel unit the Campbell Brothers, bought him a $60 six-string lap steel model.

Robert Randolph & The Family Band is a multicultural American funk and soul band composed of Robert Randolph, Marcus Randolph (drums), Danyel Morgan (bass), and Jason Crosby (organ). Frontman Robert ...

With a randy li'l devil getting funky on one shoulder, and a tsk-tsking angel urging good gospel on the other, pedal steel guitar wizard Robert Randolph -- one of the most explosive live-show ...