BLUEGRASS GOSPEL
Uncle Jug Music
Jonathan Jon Gideon
Electronic
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Imagine the crystal-clear sounds of acoustic instruments played skillfully in the outdoors and voices echoing across the fields or hollows from makeshift arbors. Music and teachings that rang out messages of hope, redemption and a promise of an eternal reward. This was the foundation for what is known today as American Roots Music.
The music and teachings from these brush arbor meetings were handed down from generation to generation across the southland and have spawned many of the churches we see today. Many great musicians have learned from this style of music and Jonathan Causey is no exception. For 35 years, he has ministered across the country sharing his love for the LORD through his music and has remained prepared to be a willing servant for CHRIST.
After the death of his wife, Tammy Sullivan, in 2017, Jonathan was in a new season of his life that required prayer and time apart from the music ministry. During that time, the LORD spoke to him and told him emphatically, “I have given you everything you need.” As he turned, there stood young Jon Gideon. Jon Gideon has been willing and eager to cultivate his GOD given talents and follow in the footsteps of both the Causey and Sullivan families. Under the direction of his father, Jonathan Causey, Jon Gideon has studied guitar and vocals, learning the music of the talented generations that came before him.
At seventeen years old, Jonathan began traveling, sharing the music and the ministry, always remaining true to his gospel roots. And now, he shares that experience with his partner and son, Jon Gideon, carrying on the mission and the ministry of the family with fervor and conviction.
Jon Gideon has not only excelled as a talented musician but is also a walking miracle and a perfect example of GOD’s healing grace.
They are very proud to announce their 2nd album, 'The Master's Plan'
in 2025. Filled with some of the best talent Nashville has to offer.
Featuring a compilation of songs filled with a message of redemption and eternal life in CHRIST.
Invite Jonathan and Jon Gideon to your church, your festival or revival. They will tell the story that will bless you and lift your spirits in the old time, brush arbor way with an amazing style of harmony that only family can produce.
Excerpts from "For The Love Of A Song" By:
Since the late 1940s, there has been a music sent forth from lower Alabama that is in part, the soundtrack to so many lives throughout the southland. That sound is a firebrand collective of a rhythm based, beatdriven, Cajun tinged style of lonesome bluegrass, church house, rock and roll which serves as the infrastructure to a catalogue of songs built upon stories and teachings from the Old and New Testaments. Songs that inspire hope, faith, and the promise of Heaven, its rewards, and eternal, unspeakable beauty. The term most commonly associated with this music is bluegrass gospel. The people who pioneered the sound of this brush arbor style of Pentecostal sonic beauty is the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers from St. Stephens, Alabama dating back to 1949. The Scripture tells us, "at the appointed time, the Lord will bring back a remnant." Concerning those divinely inspired songs sent down from Heaven to Jerry Sullivan and those of us who wrote with him, were it not for Jonathan Causey and his and Tammy's son, Jon Gideon, I fear all would be lost. As said, Jonathan has kept an eye on the manuscripts, notebooks, tapes, and scraps of paper left in the wake of so many creative storms, and he keeps those songs alive by-playing and singing them. When I listen to this record which is filled with some of those songs, my heart is enriched And as I listen to this recording, I can't help but think how proud Tammy Sullivan and the entire Sullivan family, would be to hear Jon Gideon singing. He's got the family tones along with the cool factor to go with it. He is to be a standard-bearer no doubt, and a bona fide cat in the making. Another standard in the realm of the holyspirit is the passing of mantles. So much of Jerry Sullivan's life work now rests in the heart, soul, and mind of Jonathan Causey. Jonathan was a son-in-law, but Jerry loved him like a son. He knows full well the weight of the voice in the wilderness job that lies ahead. But I know Jonathan, and I know that he believes God will make a way for him, song by song, prayer by prayer, mile by mile, as he journeys on the gospel way and continues to proclaim THE GREATEST STORY.
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