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The band has been performing in Minnesota since 1949.

Larry began playing the steel about 3 years ago, after the bands steel player Curt Olsen passed away from cancer. Bev has one of the finest voices in music and can sing most any style, but is very strong in country vocals.

In the videos, the Rose Family has Kevin Lange playing bass.

When we first started out, guys really weren’t allowed to leave the church. When you’re in the studio, it’s hard to improvise without an audience. Once Randolph began to discover other forms of music, he saw how they were all connected, and was eager to find his own place.

“All music is related. If it wasn’t being played inside of the House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey—quite often by Robert and members of his own family, who upheld a long but little known gospel music tradition called sacred steel—Randolph simply didn’t know it existed.

Which makes it all the more remarkable that the leader of Robert Randolph and the Family Band—whose label debut for Sony Masterworks, Got Soul—is today an inspiration to the likes of Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Derek Trucks, all of whom have played with him and studied his technique.

Dan Gaardner, and Reegan also appear with CJ. Dan and Reegan have a group called Country Outlaws, and Dan is a lead guitar player with Trailer Trash.

Hope you enjoy the videos.

Here is the link to my videos. Kevin is the father of Eddie Lange, who recently played steel guitar for Bill Anderson.

The videos of CJ Have Nate Dungan on lead, his brother James on bass, and Keely Lane on drums.

It wasn’t until he was out of his teens that Randolph broke away from the confines of his social and musical conditioning and discovered rock, funk, soul, jazz, and the jam band scene; soon forging his own sound by fusing elements of those genres. Larry also plays lead guitar and bass, as well as sings. “We fit in that category in some sense but the jam band scene itself has changed a lot since that time.

(That said, the cry of the steel guitar was the biggest star of the show. Even Allan took the time to sit down and listen to CJ Udeen play at the end of “Learning How to Bend.” It was that good.)

Most of Allan’s big hits were there, like “Nothing On But the Radio,” the piano-laced “Life Ain’t Always Beautiful,” “Watching Airplanes,” “Smoke Rings in the Dark” and “Best I Ever Had.” But the standout for me was when the band took a break and he did his soulful “Right Where I Need to Be” with just his acoustic guitar.

“The thing about a record is you get a chance to rehearse parts and fine-tune things. As he introduced his new guitar to the sold-out crowd of about 1500 people, he went on to explain how he got it (drove two hours to meet some guy in a Shoney’s parking lot) and why (his guitars were crushed when a tornado struck at a show in Canada this summer).

So the fans got to meet his Gibson 1948 J-200, along with a handful of other guitars, over the course of his 20-song set.

But for us, well, we’ve been playing in front of audiences our whole lives.”