Music spotlight: Blind Boys of Alabama

For the Minnesota Star Tribune
October 29, 2011 at 11:38PM
Blind Boys of Alabama
Blind Boys of Alabama (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

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These fabled gospel singers dove into country for the first time this year on their well-received CD "Take the High Road." It found them harmonizing with Nashville and Texas acts, some revered, others debatable. Now their genre-crossing studio collaboration with the likes of Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Hank Williams Jr. and the Oak Ridge Boys has morphed into gigs pairing the Blind Boys with country vets. In Minneapolis, siblings Sara and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek will join them -- can we get an "Amen, y'all"?

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