Arthur Roland and The Experience

About Arthur Roland and The Experience

Blues and Gospel music rooted in deep traditional gospel with mississippi feel with sweet guitar genus and rocking band to get you on your feet and keep you dancing Growing up in the church arthur roland became guitarist vocalist later taking his gifts on the road with gospel legends learning and horning his skills with the like of The Blind Boys of alabama mighty Clouds Of joy and blues artist like Marvin Sease and more shaping it into his own sound by taking something for all of it become a sonwriter and studio musician writing hits on hits and
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n 2014, rthur Roland was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame as a member of
Lucille Pope and the Pearly Gates. He has been playing and touring for 35 years as a professional
gospel artist. He is among the first Gospel groups to record and chart on a White Southern
Gospel Music label (Morningstar Records). The 2009 album was entitled "It's all Good." He
has also written hits for artists like the Williams Brothers (God will Deliver), Slim and the
Supreme Angels (Separated Right from Wrong), and Lucille Pope and Pearly Gates (Real
Christians Stand up; Great Reunion) to name a few. Roland has played and sung on countless
other works with artists like the Blind Boys of Alabama, Dorothy Norwood and many others. n
2004, he toured Switzerland and other Countries on "The tribute to Mahalia Jackson tour."
He released his first solo project in 2014, "Revival on a Tour Bus," which is still a top seller in
Southern Gospel. His sophomore album, "In God’s Own Time,” is slated for release in July
2015.
Humble beginnings
When you accept salvation at the early age of six years old and up grow up in Bostwick, an
Eastern Georgia town with fewer than 400 people, you learn to listen and sometimes you even
dream of a world bigger than the one that you were born in. t was at his family’s church, Mt.
Vernon Baptist, that he first heard the music of the Old Negro Spirituals sung and grew to love
them. But when his parents took him to his first Gospel show and he heard legends like the
Gospel Keynotes, the Mighty Clouds of Joy, and the Williams Brothers a chord ran through his
body when he heard the guitars and the drums playing. He was so fascinated by the Gospel
quartet sound that he went home and formed a group with his sisters. They copied the sounds and
crafted it into their own. They became a children’s quartet that traveled and even recorded. One
night the young Arthur had a very clear dream that they were performing on a huge stage and he
was doing something that he had never done before – he was playing the guitar! When he woke
up from that dream he was gifted by God with the ability to play the guitar just as he had in the
dream. He recognized it as a gift from God.
From these humble beginnings, Roland has spent 35 years of his life touring, singing, playing,
and writing music for some of those same artists that he saw when he walked into that Gospel
concert at six years old. He has been amazingly blessed to learn side-by-side from legends like
Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, Lucille Pope, the late Willie Johnson, and
Joe Ligon of the Mighty Clouds of Joy. These talented Gospel greats taught him the history and
integrity of this style of music and sharpened his skills as a performer, writer, and singer. He
also learned the history of the blues, which emanated from the church, and infused it into his
traditional but unique gospel style.
Servant leader
n addition to this professional Gospel music career, Roland gives his time, his voice, and
musical platform to the community and to speak on racial intolerance an