Search - Sonny Treadway :: Jesus Will Fix It! Sacred Steel Guitar Instrumentals

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