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The Women of Blind Gospel

 

Feb 23 2012in Uncategorized adminTags: Arizona Dranes, Blind Mamie Forehand, Flora Molton, gospel, music, Piano, Women
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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 […]

Tags: Arizona Dranes, Blind Mamie Forehand, Flora Molton, gospel, music, Piano, Women
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Two blind men who helped transform music

 

Feb 21 2012in Uncategorized adminTags: Blind Willie Johnson, blues, gospel, Reverend Gary Davis, Texas
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“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 […]

Tags: Blind Willie Johnson, blues, gospel, Reverend Gary Davis, Texas
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Why Heavenly Sight is important

 

Feb 17 2012in Uncategorized adminTags: Airzona Dranes, blind, Blind Boys of Alabama, gospel, public radio
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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 […]

Tags: Airzona Dranes, blind, Blind Boys of Alabama, gospel, public radio
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The Church: melodies, memory and story

 

Feb 14 2012in Uncategorized adminTags: blind, Church, gospel, Henry Butler, slavery
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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 […]

Tags: blind, Church, gospel, Henry Butler, slavery
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Heavenly Sight video

 

Feb 8 2012in Uncategorized admin No Comments »

You can see what we are all about in this video.

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Rage Against the Machine Sings Blind Willie McTell

 

Feb 7 2012in Home Slides admin No Comments »

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) […]

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