Blind Boys of Alabama with Aaron Neville + Mavis Staples and band....
Fuck me....
Vicki and I will be there with bells on.... I'm genuinely excited about seeing this...
Blind Boys of Alabama with Aaron Neville + Mavis Staples and band....
Fuck me....
Vicki and I will be there with bells on.... I'm genuinely excited about seeing this...
Hmmm can't say i have heard of any of them
That's your loss SpookyT.
So when? Where? Other people need entertainment too, you selfish bugger Paul.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Don't know the others but Aaron Neville has a voice like warbling melted Chocolate, brilliant. Enjoy
Oh bugger
You guys DO know Mavis Staples, believe me. She's sung on stuff you've heard and love, I guarantee it.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
... But will they sing the theme tune to The Wire?
"Write the Theme tune, sing the theme tune".
"It would be spiteful, to put jellyfish in a trifle."\m/ o.o \m/
Sigh!
Not the full set o blind boys but...
Bit o History
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwlW8uJwP-E
Probably the longest continuous group - formed pre WW2. These guys have sung duets with everyone - they are the real bloody deal....
Mavis Staples is one of the Staples Family Singers. She has really had a come back of late but if you are interested in social history and the civil rights movement then this woman and her family were right there at the pivot point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZWdDI_fkns
Class act....
Jim - jump on ticketek and type in blind and wellington - St james, late April.
ladies and gents - open your ears and your minds this is roots with a capital R. Nothin fake - its the real shiz!
FUCK !!!! Love to be there. But it's a long way to ride from Whakatane ... and my wife would be a tad upset if I rode off again so soon ...
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
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