Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine covers Bob Dylan’s “Blind Willie McTell,” for Chimes of Freedom, the Amnesty International USA benefit album that is a compilation of Dylan covers that was recently released. Bob Dylan himself recorded the song in 1983, but only released it on the The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) […]

Station KGOU will be airing the FULL Heavenly Sight program this Sunday. So if you are in the Oklahoma City region, tailgate by tuning into KGOU at 12pm pre Super Bowl.

  We’re hard at work finishing production on the hour-long documentary that will be available in February for Black History Month. You can preview the demo HERE.

    Blind Boy Paxton is not blind, but rather a 20 year old musician from Watts, CA who plays early blues and jazz.  Although his blindness may be inauthentic, his sound definitely shows his dedication to the music and is evidence of the mystique of the traveling blind blues musician. You can hear him […]

  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 […]

We’re doing it! In addition to building a website and expanding this blog, Heavenly Sight has its very own Kickstarter profile. You can learn more about our project, see images and videos of some of the musicians we are featuring in our program, and make a donation towards the completion of our radio documentary and […]

At the end of July we had the pleasure to reconnect with Henry Butler at CBS Studios in Manhattan, the second time we’ve spoken with Mr. Butler for “Heavenly Sight.” After settling into the studio (formerly occupied by Howard Stern & his radio show), we asked Mr. Butler about his experience as a blind musician. […]