blind boys of alabama

Marc Cohn and Blind Boys of Alabama Have “Work to Do” (album stream) (premiere)

PopMatters Staff / 8 August 2019

Marc Cohn's appreciation of gospel has never been a secret, but his pairing with Blind Boys of Alabama offers a chance to more deeply examine that connection in his songs and songs from an older tradition.

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An Alternative Christmas Playlist for the Coming Ice Age

Christopher John Stephens / 10 December 2017

If the idea is that earth, water, fire, air and space constitute the core elements of life, then these five songs might seem as their equivalents to surviving the complications that come from embracing the good and enduring the ugly of the Christmas season.

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Dr. John: Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch

George de Stefano / 16 September 2014

Not all the guest artists fit, and sometimes the connection to Satchmo seems tenuous indeed. But when it works, as it mostly does, the album delivers much pleasure and pleasant surprises.

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