Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand
Five Blind Boys Of Alabama
Calvin Records, 2006
1 CD
Catalogue #: 52
EAN: 0846052005224
UPC: 846052005224
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The classic gospel group performs both traditional material like "Motherless Child" and "Take Your Burdens to the Lord" and contemporary songs like James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend" and Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" on this re-released album from the early 1970s.
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Five Blind Boys Of Alabama
One of the most influential and long-lived of the gospel groups to come to prominence in the 1940s, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama had a long-standing rivalry with the similarly named Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, with whom they often toured. Founding member Clarence Fountain went on to a successful solo career in the late '60s, but returned a decade later. The group's standing grew with each passing decade; still in operation in the 2000s, they recorded some high-profile albums featuring guest stars from the pop world, still featuring Fountain and original member George Scott. Yet more new fans were exposed to the Blind Boys when their version of Tom Waits's elegiac "Way Down in the Hole" was used as the theme for the cult sensation cop show THE WIRE in 2001.
