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Down in New Orleans [Import]

~ Blind Boys of Alabama
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (29 Jan 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Time Life
  • ASIN: B000YXMMDG
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 130,082 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Free at Last
2. Make a Better World - The Blind Boys of Alabama, , Hot 8 Brass Band
3. How I Got Over
4. You Got to Move
5. Across the Bridge
6. You Better Mind
7. Down by the Riverside
8. If I Could Help Somebody - The Blind Boys of Alabama, Allen Toussaint
9. Uncloudy Day
10. Prayer
11. I've Got a Home
12. I'll Fly Away - The Blind Boys of Alabama, , Hot 8 Brass Band

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With Down in New Orleans The Blind Boys are backed here by a trio of world-class New Orleans musicians: David Torkanowsky (piano), Roland Guerin (bass) and Shannon Powell (drums). Other guests include legendary pianist/producer and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Allen Toussaint, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and the horn-heavy Hot 8 Brass Band, one of the city's most vital young acts. But the band's deeply soulful and natural voices remain in the spotlight on this album despite this being their first recording in New Orleans. After performing together for over six decades, The Blind Boys of Alabama have enjoyed one of the more striking comebacks in recent memory. Their last several albums have earned these hipster septuagenarians the best reviews and record sales of their career, four Grammy Awards in a four year span, and a completely new, contemporary audience.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Soulful Saga, 10 Aug 2008
By D. Elliott (Ulverston, Cumbria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Down in New Orleans (Audio CD)
A group of blind black boys originally came together as the Happyland Singers for some 10 years, and then for almost 60 further years became The Bind Boys of Alabama and have been continuously singing spiritual and gospel music ever since. Over the years society has changed from the days of segregated audiences within the USA to where it now embraces everyone, and all over the world. The Blind Boys of Alabama played a number of times in New Orleans but never recorded there until production of this CD in support of hurricane victims.

CD tracks feature a wide repertoire with traditional numbers plus songs associated with famous singers including Mahalia Jackson and Jim Reeves, but with unmistakeable gospel harmony and influences of rhythm & blues - and of course being in New Orleans - of jazz. My favourite tracks include `Across the Bridge', `Down by the Riverside' and `Uncloudy Day' where these are supported by The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Other tracks are backed by a trio of piano, bass and drums alternating with guest Allen Toussaint on piano, or The Hot 8 Brass Band with especially Carl LeBlanc on banjo and Bennie Pete on tuba. From the opening track `Free at Last' using Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech, to the final number `I'll Fly away' as a form of funeral jazz with The Hot 8 this is a great historical CD. It is testament to the tradition of black music inspired by religion. However advancing years mark performances somewhat rough and rustic leading to 4-star rather than 5-star rating.
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5.0 out of 5 stars CD, 23 Feb 2009
By Mr. M. D. Brocket (Sheffield,England.) - See all my reviews
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Tremendous blend of gospel, blues and jazz worth a place in any collection. If you like Ray Charles then I'd suggest you'd like the sound of this album.
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