Near The Cross - E9th

[Dale Rottacker]

Been playing this forever, but never recorded it ... I made the track for this with BIAB, and tried to play it pretty straight the 1st time through while spicing it up a little the 2nd time through.

https://youtu.be/U8Ltp2MRisw

[Dwayne Neufeld]

Absolutely appreciate your rendition of this classic Fanny J Crosby hymn. All your movements and voicings add so much feeling and emotion, and I believe your version is what Fanny might even have in-visioned when she wrote it. Thanks for sharing. I liked the 2 different verses. Dwayne Neufeld

[Rick Campbell]

Good job. I guess Fanny Crosby was the Harlan Howard of congregational gospel music. I think she had over 8000 published hymns. She also wrote secular songs and poems. She did a lot of mission work and was involved in government.... and she was totally blind. I did some research on her as part of a church program that I do occasionally. I like to tell a little history of the songs I do.

Dale always delivers.

RC

[Bob Adams]

You never recorded it because the time wasn’t right!

You now have it perfected with divine intervention and this is the time to make it public!

There are some moves on there that, I doubt many would even have imagined, where did they come from? Well I believe a gift from above!

Is the genre: religious, sacred, gospel, hymns! Regardless they are all brought to life on the steel.

The first time I played a ‘churchy type tune’ at our steel meeting in Scotland it was met with something of a sharp intake of breath!!.... Then, ‘what’s that, where’s it from, how do you know that kind of music, what’s it called, why etc!’ It’s not country, we never played that when we were on the road!

Well it was what I was brought up on! The man who wrote ‘Burdens are Lifted,’ still didn’t have the second verse when he sang it with my folks round the organ in our home here in Scotland almost 70 years ago.

John Moore, who wrote it worked alongside my father in an engineering works in Kirkintilloch Scotland.

I say all this not to digress from you post in any way Dale but in fact to admire you for your stance in posting your videos.

My father passed away in my hands at 97yrs, four years ago and if I had played this for him he would have been trying to trade me harmonies on it for sure, it did bring a tear at the start mind you!

Wonderful stuff! Thank you! Bob

[Dale Rottacker]

Absolutely appreciate your rendition of this classic Fanny J Crosby hymn. All your movements and voicings add so much feeling and emotion, and I believe your version is what Fanny might even have in-visioned when she wrote it. Thanks for sharing. I liked the 2 different verses. Dwayne Neufeld

What a nice thing to say Dwayne, Thank you

Good job. I guess Fanny Crosby was the Harlan Howard of congregational gospel music. I think she had over 8000 published hymns. She also wrote secular songs and poems. She did a lot of mission work and was involved in government.... and she was totally blind. I did some research on her as part of a church program that I do occasionally. I like to tell a little history of the songs I do.

Dale always delivers.

RC

Thank you for that background Rick, I knew some of what you mentioned as MANY of her songs exist in our Hymnal. She was a remarkable woman.

You never recorded it because the time wasn’t right!

You now have it perfected with divine intervention and this is the time to make it public!

There are some moves on there that, I doubt many would even have imagined, where did they come from? Well I believe a gift from above!

Wonderful stuff! Thank you! Bob

Bob, your words touch my heart, thank you so much. Each and EVERY gift I have come from God, He's been incredibly gracious and merciful to me.

I grew up playing Gospel music in a Church more accustomed to "loftier" more classically based Hymn. They never saw a Pedal Steel till I brought one to Church and we played Gospel songs with more of a Country flavor. I remember playing for an Evangelistic crusade and the Evangelist walked past my Sho~Bud with its Clubs/Spade/Hearts/Diamonds on it and gave a gentle shake of the head. He had a preconceived idea about what he was going to hear. He didn't hear what he'd expected, and told us later, we could play for him ANYTIME.

Sorry you lost your Dad. I'm dreading the day myself as my Dad will be 95 in Dec. and my Mom is 92. Sadly we don't live forever, at least not here.