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Here's Rev. Richard "Stonefingers" Johnson with his National Steel Guitar (also called a "dobro"), a family heirloom. It's one of the rare and unusual guitars he uses when he shares the love of Jesus through music and testimony.
	“Stonefingers” is a picker and a grinner, a soloist who’s been writing songs and playing the guitar, Dobro, and lap steel for four decades. His style has been described as "swamp music,” a unique and original blend of Christian blues, folk, and gospel. It’s a very accessible and personal musical expression of God’s love.
Richard's concert ministry gets the "seal of approval" from almost everyone, regardless of age, sex, race, cultural background, geographic location, economic persuasion, spiritual condition, denomination, or personal musical preferences. His wry sense of humor and informal manner put people at ease, and helps prepare hearts to receive something good from the Lord. He is known and loved in prisons, churches, and all the other places he ministers throughout the United States and Canada.
	People who might not otherwise darken the door of a church or a prison chapel are often willing to come out to hear "Stonefingers" play on his collection of unusual instruments. Two of his guitars are of particular interest. The first, a National Duolian Steel Guitar made sometime around 1930, has been in his family since World War II.
*Another rare guitar is his lap steel, a 1934 Rickenbacher Electro* nicknamed the “Frying Pan,” one of the few surviving examples of the first electric guitar ever made.**
	Richard’s concerts are more than merely entertaining; they’re intimate and potentially life changing. The message of salvation, healing, life, and freedom in Jesus Christ is the focus of every concert. The Holy Spirit uses his musical gift, his testimony, and the things the Lord puts on his heart to share with his listeners to change people's lives. Over the years, thousands of people have come to know the Lord Jesus Christ as Lord, Savior, and Friend through his ministry.
Many prison chaplains, pastors, and other Christian leaders have commented on Richard’s God-given ability to reach the seemingly unreachable. His ability to speak the truth in love from his heart, both in the universal language of music and in simple, everyday English, makes his a powerful and fruitful ministry...and he's fun, too!