In Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus!: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community, folklorist Robert L. Stone adds a new layer of preservation to his years of documenting through writing and audio recordings the electric steel guitar tradition within the House of God and Church of the Living God. Through the lens of documentary photography from 1992 through 2008, Stone provides a visual archive of the steel guitar tradition within a community of African American Pentecostalism, represented by the House of God and Church of the Living God.
Stone divides the photographs into eight chapters that correspond to the diverse ways in which the electric steel guitar is central to the identity, as well as modes of praise and worship, of these two congregations within the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. As a folklorist, Stone succeeds in depicting the House of God's vibrancy through still photographs, without exoticizing the congregants who figure...
