![]() The images capture musicians as they play for worship services before spirit-filled believers singing, dancing, shouting, praying, and testifying. He took the photos in this book from 1992 to 2008 in Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Florida, and at concerts in Italy. ![]() In 1996, Stone began to document the tradition beyond Florida. He produced an album for the Florida Folklife Program, which Arhoolie Records licensed and released worldwide. With the passion, skill, and unique voice they brought to the instruments, these musicians profoundly impressed Stone. In 1992, a friend in Hollywood, Florida, introduced Stone to African American musicians who played the electric steel guitar in the African American Holiness-Pentecostal churches House of God and Church of the Living God. The introductory text and extended photo captions in Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus! Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community (University of Mississippi Press, 2020) offer the reader an intimate view of this unique tradition of passionately played music that is beloved among fans of American roots music and admired by folklorists, ethnomusicologists, and other scholars. ![]() Stone presents a rare collection of high-quality documentary photos of the sacred steel guitar musical tradition and the community that supports it. ![]()
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