The Grammy Award-winning Blind Boys of Alabama take their gospel sound to Emory University’s Emerson Concert Hall next week.
The group first sang together in 1939, and since their official formation in 1944, they’ve toured the world and put out Grammy Award-winning albums.
In their current incarnation, the Blind Boys only comprises two of their original members, Jimmy Carter and Clarence Fountain. Their longtime manager Charles Driebe figured it was time to document their reflections on their lives. He taped interviews with Fountain and Carter and sent those off to songwriters.
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