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The Blind Boys of Alabama, also billed as The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, and Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, is an American gospel group. The group was founded in 1939 in Talladega, Alabama, and has featured a changing roster of musicians over its history, the majority of whom are or were vision impaired.The Blind Boys found mainstream success following their appearance in the 1983 Obie Award-winning musical The Gospel at Colonus. Since then, the group has toured internationally and has performed and recorded with such artists as Prince, Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, Bon Iver, and Amadou & Mariam. The group's cover of the Tom Waits song "Way Down in the Hole" was used as the theme song for the first season of the HBO series The Wire.The Blind Boys have won five Grammy Awards in addition to being presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. They were endowed with a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994, they were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2003, and they were inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 2010. The group was also invited to the White House during the Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama administrations.Group member Ricky McKinnie said in a 2011 interview with the magazine Mother Jones: "Our disability doesn't have to be a handicap. It's not about what you can't do. It's about what you do. And what we do is sing good gospel music."
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Timeless Gospel Classics, Vol. 4 [2015]
Song | Duration |
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Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:27 |
Gospel & Soul, Vol. 1 [2014]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:19 |
All Time Gospel, Vol. 4 [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:37 |
Harvest Collection: Five Blind Boys of Alabama [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Put Your Hand In The Hand | 3:25 |
Platinum Gospel: Five Blind Boys of Alabama [2011]
Song | Duration |
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It's Alright | 2:49 |
Oh Happy Day | 1:29 |
Motherless Child | 3:50 |
Platinum Gospel: Greatest Hits of Black Gospel [2011]
Song | Duration |
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It's Alright | 2:49 |
The Very Best of Gospel [Wagram] [2011]
Song | Duration |
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Danny Boy |
The Rough Guide to Blues Revival [2009]
Song | Duration |
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You Got To Move | 3:33 |
Gospel Classics [Cleopatra] [2008]
Song | Duration |
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Danny Boy | 2:16 |
The Wire: And All the Pieces Matter -- Five Years of Music from The Wire [2008]
Song | Duration |
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Way Down in the Hole | 2:56 |
This Is Gospel: The Best Of [2007]
Song | Duration |
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New Born Soul | 3:44 |
Five Blind Boys of Alabama/I Saw the Light [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Amazing Grace | 4:35 |
Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Motherless Child | 3:48 |
Reach out and Touch Somebody's Hand | 2:31 |
You've Got a Friend | 5:27 |
It's Alright | 3:05 |
Oh, Happy Day | 2:58 |
This Is Gospel, Vol. 3 [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Love, Love, Love | 2:49 |
Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:27 |
This Is Gospel, Vol. 6: Gospel Soul [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:35 |
Walk with Me Dear Lord [2006]
Song | Duration |
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Precious Lord | 3:50 |
Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:34 |
Danny Boy | 2:14 |
Old Time Religion | 2:02 |
God Will Bless You [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Working On the Building | 1:47 |
Golden Gospel Songs: To My Father's House [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk with Thee |
Precious Lord [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:33 |
Danny Boy | 2:14 |
Precious Lord | 3:47 |
Old Time Religion | 2:06 |
Sanctify My Soul: 25 Gospel Greats [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:08 |
Just a Closer Walk with Thee | 2:37 |
Precious Lord | 3:49 |
The Legacy [2005]
Song | Duration |
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New Born Soul | 3:40 |
Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:25 |
The Second Chance [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Nothing But the Blood | 4:11 |
Walk With Me [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:33 |
Danny Boy | 2:14 |
Precious Lord | 3:47 |
Old Time Religion | 2:06 |
B.I.G., Vol. 1 [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:27 |
B.I.G.: Celebrate Gospel [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:27 |
All Time Gospel [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:00 |
Gospel Favorites [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:09 |
Lord Search My Heart [2003]
Song | Duration |
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Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:25 |
New Born Soul | 3:40 |
Collectors Edition [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Amazing Grace | 4:37 |
Forever Gold: Gold Collection: Gospel Gold [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:13 |
I Saw the Light [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Love, Love, Love | 2:47 |
Pleasure + Pain [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Give a Man a Home | |
I Shall Not Walk Alone |
Forever Gold: Gospel Gold [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:13 |
Gospel for the Lord [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Precious Lord | 3:50 |
Danny Boy | 2:15 |
Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:35 |
Spirit of the Century [2001]
The Glory of Black Gospel, Vol. 4 [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 3:48 |
The I-10 Chronicles, Vol. 2: One More for the Road [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Just Wanna See His Face | 4:20 |
You'll Never Walk Alone/True Convictions [2001]
Song | Duration |
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In the Garden | 1:50 |
Danny Boy | 2:15 |
Old Time Religion | 2:07 |
Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:37 |
Precious Lord | 3:48 |
Absolutely the Best Gospel Album [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:41 |
My Lord What a Morning! [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Danny Boy | 4:55 |
The Holy Kingdom: Music of the Gospel [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee | 2:30 |
Take My Hand Precious Lord [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:01 |
Danny Boy | 2:13 |
Just a Closer Walk with Thee | 2:34 |
Ben & Jerry's One World/One Heart, Vol. 1 [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Reminiscing | 3:14 |
I Brought Him with Me [1995]
Song | Duration |
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Amazing Grace | 6:21 |
22 Original Gospel Greats [1994]
Song | Duration |
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Just a Closer Walk With Thee |
Bridge Over Troubled Water [HOB] [1993]
Song | Duration |
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Reach Out and Touch | 4:04 |
It's Alright | 2:51 |
Oh Happy Day | 1:28 |
You've Got a Friend | 3:33 |
Put Your Hand in the Hand | 3:24 |
The Sermon [1993]
Song | Duration |
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Precious Lord [Take 1][#] | 2:46 |
Old Time Religion [Take 1][#] | 2:17 |
In the Garden [Take 4][#] | 2:30 |
The Sermon [1993]
Song | Duration |
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Old Time Religion | 2:19 |
In the Garden [Take 4] | 2:31 |
Deep River [1992]
Song | Duration |
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Deep River, Part 1 | 1:01 |
Reminiscing | 3:16 |
Just a Closer Walk with Thee | 4:10 |
Marching Up to Zion [1970]
Song | Duration |
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I've Got a Home |
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