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| Videos Battlefield Shouting on the Hills Everywhere I Go I'll Fly Away Ain't No Grave Beyond the Blue Jesus Set Me Free Hallelujah I'm Ready Scotland/Steal Away Christians Automobile Heard It From Heaven Cool Down Here Encore - Gloryland Encore - I Saw the Light These video clips wee recorded at the Noe Valley Ministry during the 2008 San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival. The sound quality is just what you might expect from a friend's handheld digital camcorder. No matter. They still give a good idea of how we look and sound live, like the Jesus-needing professionals that we are. |
| "We're the most messed-up needing-Jesus gospel band in all of America." - Max Butler |
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| Spiro Tsingaris fiddle vocal Brian Smith banjo Reed Sutton bass Rachel Butler vocal Max Butler lead guitar vocal Greg V. Arthur mando vocal Lori Arthur guitar lead vocal Craig Turner percussion not pictured Rich Ferguson banjo dobro vocal |
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| Lori's grandparents, great uncle and great-grandfather New Mexico ~1935 |
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Greg V. Arthur Fret Not Gospel Band PO Box 19020 Oakland CA 94619 (510) 967-8411 info@fretnotgospel.com |
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| Albums CD Discography Gloryland Mary Had A Baby Hundredfold Blue Star Moms On Company Time We've self-produced and recorded five CDs, two of them live, two in studio, and one in our garage way back when we were getting started as a band. Gloryland (2006) is sold at CDBaby. Gloryland, Mary Had a Baby (2003), and Hundredfold (2001) are available through us by e-mail. The Memorial Day Benefit Concert for the Blue Star Moms (2005) is a live recording strictly for give away at past and future benefit concerts for the Blue Star Moms. On Company Time (1999) is no longer available. All proceeds from the sales of our CDs are donated to the Creekside Community Church Prison Bible Fund for the purchase of Bibles and other minstry needs at Deuel Vocational Institution State Prison in Tracy, California. Not that we are anything like King David in any way, but at least we want to be like him when he once said, "I will not give to the Lord something that costs me nothing." So our CDs turn into prison Bibles, praise God. |
| Reviews, Commentary, and a Few Other Nice Things Said Gloryland Mary Had a Baby "The inmates' favorite band inside San Quentin" Protestant Chaplain, San Quentin "Against the grain, in the right direction" Editor Hanx Americana "In essense, boot-stomping gospel bluegrass." Editor Christmasreviews "It was such a great night all around -- for our church, for the families we'll be able to help, -- and ultimately, for the Kingdom." Pastor Bay Marin "I cannot describe to you the deep sense of His provision that washed over me as I was listening to your CD." R & R Ministries "I am pleased and proud of you that you are doing this music." Aunt Francis, who's 83 years old "You'll never know how healing the evening of song and music were for us all." Blue Star Moms "Thank you for the ministry. Run on! God shine upon you. Hallelujah!" Dublin Federal Women's Prison Inmate "Thank you very much for coming in here. Two hours of freedom, it was beautiful." Deuel Vocational Institution Inmate |
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| Bio (pdf) Stage Layout (pdf) Fret Not plays boot-stomping old-time roots gospel. Lead by Lori Arthur's fiery singing, with songs from the traditions of America's black and white rural churches, it's as if the Whitstein Brothers and Sister Rosetta Tharpe held a barn dance together. In fact, Lori's grandparents did just that on their New Mexico ranch during the Great Depression, with Eugenia, her grandmother, on rhythm guitar just like Lori is now, and her great-uncle, grandfather, and great grandfather on banjo and twin fiddles. Most every-one else in Fret Not also leads or at least plays lead in church worship bands, or fronts their own gospel bands of two-timing pickers, or teaches true and right music to kids. So its in their blood. It's also in their calling. Fret Not brings the old-time gospel to the dispirited and disheart-ened of modern life, with most appearances in prisons, recovery missions, funerals, and at benefits. There is something in the old songs, borne out of the suffering of slavery and company towns, failing farms and untimely death, that prepares the heart to hear in the Word the only Uplifting Gospel there is. Fret Not has its own sound equipment, plays at no charge, travels at their own expense, but does ask to sell CDs. |