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The pride of the House of God
Church in Perrine, Florida, the Lee
Boys are one of the fastest-rising new bands in
the “sacred steel” style of praise music
that exploded onto the secular music world in the 1990s.
Led by the pedal steel guitar of Roosevelt Collier,
the Lee Boys is a joyous, bluesy and hard-rocking family
band—three brothers, Alvin, Derrick and Keith
Lee, and their three nephews—that has been described
as a cross between Robert Randolph and the Holmes Brothers.
The energetic and soulful band has recorded a concert
DVD and a pair of CDs, It Is No Secret and
Say Yes (the latter on Arhoolie). “The
Lee Boys may be what Jimi Hendrix had in mind with his
plan for ‘electric sky church music’…[singing]
the praises while whipping the crowd into a frenzy with
hypnotic grooves, innovative pedal-steel/lead guitar
interplay and funky rhythms” (Chicago Sun-Times).
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