DaShawn Hickman

DaShawn Hickman with Charlie Hunter: Drums, Roots & Steel

by Doug Collette
June 11, 2022

When keyboardist John Medeski (of Medeski, Martin and Wood) produced the The Campbell Brothers' Can You Feel It? (Ropeadope, 2005), he helped bring deserved attention to the woefully unrecognized field of “sacred steel," a musical style and African-American gospel tradition that features the steel guitar. Now, seventeen years later, guitar wunderkind Charlie Hunter makes a similar effort by overseeing and playing bass on DaShawn Hickman's Drums, Roots & Steel. Bringing the familiar “Saints" (...go marching in...) and “Just ...