The Word

Robert Randolph, The Word - The Word

The Word
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Artist: Robert Randolph, The Word
Performer: John Medeski
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-07-31
Music Label: Rope a Dope
Soundtracks:
  1. Joyful Sounds
  2. Call Him By His Name
  3. Blood On That Rock
  4. Without God
  5. Waiting On My Wings
  6. At The Cross
  7. I'll Fly Away
  8. I Shall Not Be Moved
  9. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning
  10. Untitled
  11. Joyful Sounds Reprise

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Free Music Review: This is the album I've wanted for decades
Hit: 5 Stars

Here's the word. This is pedal steel that outstrips all other albums I've ever heard. There is no nonsensical lyrics about drunks, cheating lovers and no hokum that sounds like the slop on touristy gift store album that is "showcasing" quaint, "local talent". This album is on fire. This Pedal is straight and uncut with only one chaser..the compulsion to play it again.

The Word Poster

Sweet surrender's always been the subtext of gospel music, but the velvet punch of this superstar jam band will knock out secular audiences as well. The Word features John Medeski of Medeski, Martin and Wood and youngblood trio the North Mississippi Allstars, but its star is Robert Randolph, a 23-year-old from New Jersey who is the new god of pedal-steel guitar. Randolph earned his chops in the Pentecostal church, performing the so-called "Sacred Steel" music well documented by the Arhoolie label (see Sacred Steel, Vol. 2 for a sample). He plays like an amalgamation of Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, John Coltrane, Buddy Emmons, Bo Diddley, and Mahalia Jackson. In short, he's brilliant, so full of rock & roll energy, improvisational fire, and sonic acrobatics that the other great musicians on this disc mostly stay out of his way. Randolph has a seemingly divine gift for on-the-fly harmony as he splits the difference between Sunday tent meetings and Saturday juke crawls on "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning." In the Allman Brothers-style jams, Randolph plays both Dickey Betts and Duane to Medeski's organ, handling sweet, clean scales and rich, mellow slide slurs. But his vocabulary extends well beyond American-roots music. "Blood on That Rock" ends in a free-improv meltdown, and elsewhere his snaky lines sound like Middle Eastern holy singing. All of which makes The Word worth heeding. --Ted Drozdowski

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