New Jersey Stage Issue 67 | Page 32

Photo by Jim Arbogast An interview with Robert Randolph SHARE BUTTON Irvington-raised sacred steel guitarist Robert Randolph is nominated for his sixth Grammy Awards, which will take place Jan. 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Nominated in the Best Contemporary Blues Album for his “Brighter Days” LP, he is vying NJ STAGE - ISSUE 67 by Bob Makin for his first win. Long before he toured and re- corded with the likes of Eric Clap- ton and Dave Matthews, Robert gravitated to his instrument as a youth at House of God Pentecos- tal Church in Orange, the town in which he now resides. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 32