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The Blind Boys of Alabama

The Blind Boys of Alabama

The growth of harmony

by James M. Manheim

posted 11/1/2003

If you've never heard the legendary Blind Boys of Alabama, by all means take the opportunity when they come to the Ark on Monday, November 17. Formed as the Five Blind Boys of Alabama in the 1940s, they cultivated a sound unlike any of the other African American gospel harmony groups of that era — unlike anything you've ever heard, really.

 
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