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Duets [sound recording] / the Blind Boys of Alabama.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: 24962-D | Saguaro Road RecordsPublication details: [United States] : Saguaro Road Records, p2009.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s):
Contents:
Take my hand (with Ben Harper) -- Magnificent sancturary band (with Susan Tedeschi) -- Perfect peace (with Toots Hibbert) -- Up above my head (I hear music in the air) (with Randy Travis) -- Secular praise (with Timothy B. Schmit) -- I had trouble (with Charlie Musselwhite) -- When the spell is broken (with Bonnie Raitt) -- Nothing but the blood (with Jars of Clay) -- Welcome table (with Dan Zanes) -- None of us are free (with Solomon Burke) -- Jesus (with Lou Reed) -- How I got over (live) (with Marva Wright) -- The devil ain't lazy (with Asleep at the Wheel) -- One kind favor (with John Hammond).
The Blind Boys of Alabama; with various performers.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD RELIGIOUS Blind Boys of Alabama Available 33111006279315
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Blind Boys of Alabama, who originally met and formed back in 1939 at the Alabama School for the Negro Deaf and Blind in Talladega, AL, have had an amazing seven-decade career, one that has seen them release their own brand of gospel on every possible medium the history of recording has to offer, from 78s and LPs to eight-track tapes, cassettes, and CDs, and the consistency of their sound and approach through all of this makes them a venerable national treasure. Always, in all of their configurations, a gospel group, the Blind Boys have still done a fair amount of secular material, often as vocal guests on other artists' projects, and this delightful 14-track compilation assembles some of those. It's a surprisingly varied set, ranging from rock and light reggae to country, Western swing, and blues, and finds the Blind Boys backing up Ben Harper (the wonderful "Take My Hand"), Solomon Burke (the striking "None of Us Are Free"), Timothy B. Schmit (the beautiful ballad "Secular Praise"), and on previously unreleased tracks with Toots Hibbert ("Perfect Peace"), John Hammond ("One Kind Favor"), and Lou Reed (the chilling, anguished "Jesus," one of the best recordings Reed has done in years). This isn't a duets album in the normal sense, since the Blind Boys are present on these sides mostly as background vocal support, but once they enter the song's arrangement, everything invariably gets lifted to a new plane, and while the results may not technically be gospel, one would be hard put to call it anything else. ~ Steve Leggett

Compact disc.

Gospel music.

Principally previously released material (p1994-p2009); tracks 3, 11, and 14 previously unreleased.

Program notes by Ben Harper and Ben Sandmel ([8] p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Take my hand (with Ben Harper) -- Magnificent sancturary band (with Susan Tedeschi) -- Perfect peace (with Toots Hibbert) -- Up above my head (I hear music in the air) (with Randy Travis) -- Secular praise (with Timothy B. Schmit) -- I had trouble (with Charlie Musselwhite) -- When the spell is broken (with Bonnie Raitt) -- Nothing but the blood (with Jars of Clay) -- Welcome table (with Dan Zanes) -- None of us are free (with Solomon Burke) -- Jesus (with Lou Reed) -- How I got over (live) (with Marva Wright) -- The devil ain't lazy (with Asleep at the Wheel) -- One kind favor (with John Hammond).

The Blind Boys of Alabama; with various performers.

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