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Available CDs "Gloryland" may be purchased at CDBaby and iTunes. "Hundredfold and "Mary Had a Baby" may be purchased at by e-mailing us |
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| Upcoming Schedule We've enjoyed our year long break to have babies and raise babies. But now it's back to it. March 15, Sunday @ 5:00p Deuel Vocational Institution State Prison, Tracy Protestant Chapel contact - Chaplain Roland Ruffin (209) 835-4141 x5077 March 27, Friday @7:00p Peninsula Bible Church R & R Ministries 3505 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto contact - Bruce Maez (408) 315-3124 April 25, Saturday @ 8:00p Noe Valley Music Ministry w/ Rev. Roland Pollard and Friends 1021 Sanchez, San Francisco contact - Larry Kassin (415) 454-5238 Admission - $17 June 19, Friday @ 6:30p Federal Womens Correctional Instition, Dublin 5701 8th Street, Camp Parks, Dublin, CA 94568 contact - Chaplain Bingham (925) 833-7500 ex 385 August 30, Sunday @ 5:00p Deuel Vocational Institution State Prison, Tracy Protestand Chapel contact - Chaplain Roland Ruffin (209) 835-4141 x5077 September 20, Sunday @ 11:00a American River Music Festival Henningsen-Lotus Park on the South Fork of the American River Lotus, California contact - Matt Semonsen (530) 622-6044 Admission - $tbd December 13, Sunday @ 5:00p Deuel Vocational Institution State Prison, Tracy Protestant Chapel contact - Chaplain Roland Ruffin (209) 835-4141 x5077 June 27, Sunday @ 10:30a Day in the Son Mt. Shataa All Church Service contact - Rob and Pam Wilden (530) 926-2622 |
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| Rich Ferguson's Good Old Gospel Bluegrass Band |
| Christian ministry to prisoners, their families, and their victims throughout the world |
| Max and Rachel Butler's Honky-Tonking Gospel Band |
| Creekside Community Church |
| "A safe place to hear a dangerous message", our church home in San Leandro |
| Music magazine and on-line distribution of independent music |
| Victory Outreach |
| Christian ministry for the restoration from substance abuse |
| Campus Crusade's ministry and service to our military and their families |
| An association of the families of our country's military |
| Blue Star Moms |
| Christmas Reviews |
| On-line reviewer and promoter of all kinds of Christmas amusic |
| Churches and community groups ministering to the inner city youth of the East Bay |
| An on-line reviewer of Americana music from the Netherlands |
| Joni Eareckson's Christian ministry to the disabled |
| Our other home church in Oakland, seeking to glorify God's name, through God's people, locally and globally |
We play, what could be called Americana gospel, the old-time roots music from the traditions of the black and white rural American churches. It's the "farmer formal" sacred songs from the Emancipation to the Depression, as well as some of our own. It's the music of our grandfathers and great-grandmothers, when they were fiery and young, and had to endure their hardships trusting only in Jesus. It's the songs of the old saints who were well acquainted with suffering, for some were in chains, or at the Freedmans Bureau, or in company towns, on failing farms, or at the graveside. It's a uniquely American expression of the cross and shed blood, of sin and salvation, of grace and mercy, and of repentenance and forgiveness. It's the music for times of trouble, when nothing but the unadorned full gospel of Jesus will do. And it's steely-eyed encouragement by the old songwriters in the power of the Holy Ghost to keep walking on out in Jesus name, to keep leaning on the everlasting arms, to finally lay your burdens down. We have been at it together since 1994 performing 20 to 25 times per year. We've never sought music industry sucess but rather filled up our dance card with prison gigs, rescue missions, funerals, church services, and benefit concerts for groups doing good like the Blue Star Moms. We've self-produced five CDs. We return all band proceeds to charity, primarily into prison ministries. As our most noteworthy accomplishment, the prison chaplain once said we were "the inmates' favorite band inside San Quentin". A great complement for us and for old-time roots gospel, in our estimation. Nevertheless, it is our prayer, when it is all said and done, when we have all gone on to our reward like our fathers before us, that we were somehow out of the way of the songs themselves so that the only gospel there is, the old-time full gospel of Jesus, was clearly heard. May the One who has overcome this mean old world, the Lord and Savior of sinners like us, be glorified in all of you. |
| The Fret Not Gospel Band |
| Favorite Links |
| Band Members |
| Spiro Tsingaris fiddle vocal Brian Smith banjo Rachel Butler vocal Greg V. Arthur mando vocal Max Butler lead guitar vocal Rich Ferguson banjo dobro vocal Reed Sutton bass Lori Arthur guitar lead vocal |
| All monetary procedes from the sale of CDs are returned to charities -- primarily to the prison ministry at Dueul Vocational Institution in Tracy to buy Bibles, anger management workbooks, audio-visual equipment, and whatever else the prison chaplain.requests. |
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| A great festival hosted in numerous excellent venues over 8 days in February |