Thanks to everyone again for your support in helping complete our successful Kickstarter campaign. Since that time we’ve been very busy and we’re happy to announce that you can preview the website designs at http://www.heavenlysight.org/. The final website will be full of interactive music and media and accessible to the visually impaired. Starting Dec. 18th and […]

When we think of the tradition of itinerant blind black musicians, names like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Willie McTell or Blind Willie Johnson tend to come up quickly. Blind women in that tradition — harder to name. But there were several and even some that gained wider recognition.  Blind Mamie Forehand was one such performer and […]

“It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.  He did not articulate a single word.  He hummed it and sang it and played it with a bottle-neck that sounded like it was really a razor blade.  He was experiencing it and he communicated it extraordinarily, but it was his experience that […]

As you probably know, we’re in the midst of trying to raise money to help promote the Heavenly Sight hour-long public radio documentary and also establish a visually-impaired-friendly website.  In the course of doing research for this blog it became very clear how incredibly lacking the web is in resources about blind gospel music. Searching […]

After their years of slavery African-Americans kept with them Christianity and the hymnals that sang the religion’s praises.  It was a powerful connection in a community deprived of education, where literacy was a rare achievement.  Where few people read, word of mouth rules, especially word of mouth raised in oration or song. “For black Americans […]

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  Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise was a band that formed in Detroit in 1994 around a blind street musician named….Robert Bradley. Bradley was born in 1950. He attended the Alabama School for the Blind and found his way playing the streets, churches and coffeehouses of Detroit. The band became popular in the 90s and I […]

  Jimmy Carter, not the former president, but rather one of the founding members of the Blind Boys of Alabama recorded his interview with us in New York. He was in the city last June for a concert at Lincoln Center where he collaborated with Yo La Tengo, Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket, Aaron […]