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[ROCK] A soulful veteran of Buffalo’s outdoor concert series returns this Thursday, August 10 to Canalside in Robert Randolph and the Family Band. Randolph is something of a traditionalist and an originator in one giant package of sound. Raised in a cloistered religious home in New Jersey, Randolph didn’t know that secular music even existed until he became a teenager. During an era where slide and pedal steel guitar work migrated from blues to country, it’s almost as if Randolph was sent to us to bring the pedal steel out of the church back to rock and roll. Opening for Randolph are the local surf rock duo, The Get Money Squad, whose laid back and washed out songwriting have primed them for the big stage at Canalside.