KCRW Blind Boys of Alabama Outro

Blind Boys Of Alabama 2009-04-01 KCRW Radio Santa Monica, CA
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About the great gospel singers.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
And you got some power in them lugs.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh yeah, man, where where that came from?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
So it's great to have you here. It's the Blind
Boys of Alabama live on KCRW. Quickly, want to distinguish
between the DVD and the CD we've been talking about,
because I thought they were a companion piece, but they're
two separate projects entirely Live in New Orleans is the DVD,
which is a full concert sixteen different songs and a
number of special guests. And the disc, which is a

(00:35):
studio recording down in New Orleans, which is not live
but features many different guests as well.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
And that's a Grammy Award winning CD.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Well it won one.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
You have a Grammar number five.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Chalk it up. Another one in the cabinet.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
One in the cabinet.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Where do you keep your Grammys?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, like, well, we all you know, each individual person
has one, So I got mine right now.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
So your your music is an inspiration, But do you
look to inspire young people in a new generation? And
if so, what advice would you give to someone just
just starting out? Because you guys are veterans.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, well you know, we we have tried over the
years to get more young people involved in our music.
That's why we did some coll operation was with guys
like Ben Harp and Aaron Nelton because they relate to
young people. And since we have done that, we find

(01:43):
that we have more young people coming to our concerts
now than ever before. So I think we made it
a good move by getting those people to do it,
and they didn't mind it. We got together and they
you know, all the all these guys, you know, they
know about gospel. So it didn't take long for us
to get together, you know. So the rest is history.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
I guess.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
What's next for you, fellas. You don't have a show
in LA right now. But also we got a phone
call someone listening online from Alabama wondering when you're coming
back to Alabama.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, I don't know. They did the Alabama I don't know.
It's hard to get in there for some reason. I
don't know. We've been trying to get in Montgomery for
a long time. I haven't gotten there yet. We do
go to Bummingham ever ever now and then but Montgomery, Mobile,
we haven't gotten Those are three major cities in Alabama.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, and we got we got in.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
We got into the biggest one which is Bummingham Mobile
is next to Montgomery's thud, so we're trying to work
on them now, so maybe some enterprising person will try
to get us in there.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
What is in the near future for you guys? Are you?
Are you touring right now on the road.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Getting ready to go to Australia tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Wow in Australia and New Zealand, and then we'll come
back and get a little rest and we'll head out
again to Canada.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Mmm. Wonderful to have you here this morning live on
ca CRW.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
We do have time for one more if you've got
something otherwise, you know we can you got something all right,
It's the Blind Voice of Alabama live on Casey RW