The Blind Boys Of Alabama

It's impossible not to have your soul moved by the Blind Boys of Alabama. It's also impossible to keep your body from moving to the music of New Orleans. So putting the premier gospel group in the Big Easy makes for an experience that invigorates body and soul. Joining the boys is such Nola royalty as Allen Toussaint, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Hot 8 Brass Band. Listen to "Make a Better World," "You Better Mind" and "If I Could Help Somebody" now. The ending street band version of "I'll Fly Away" could sweep anybody off their feet and deliver them to the Promised Land.

The fusion of the Blind Boys' Deep South gospel with New Orleans funk, R&B and jazz (guests
include the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Allen Toussaint) creates a superweapon of
roots-music uplift: Full-throated versions of standards such as "I'll Fly Away" and "Down by
the Riverside" will raise goose bumps even on the tatted-up arms of resolutely futurist
hipsters. Bonus: The opening track, "Free at Last," somehow grooves exactly lik... More >