Wilmington, DE (Top40 Charts/ Webster & Associates) The
Blind Boys of
Alabama have been confirmed to perform at this year's music industry Triple A NON-COMMvention on May 19th at noon in Wilmington, DE. The 30 minute concert will be held in front of an audience of radio station programmers and executives, and broadcast simultaneously on influential Philadelphia radio station WXPN as well as NPR.com. Highlights of the performance will include selections from their highly anticipated album, Take The High Road, due May 3rd on Saguaro Road Records. Co-produced by country superstar Jamey Johnson, Take The High Road sees the 5-time Grammy award-winning
Blind Boys with country legends including Johnson, Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr., Lee Ann Womack, and The Oak Ridge Boys.
"Gospel and country music are two of the deepest roots of the American music tree and combining them in a Blind Boys album gives us this year's most unique and powerful music experience," says Mike Jason, Saguaro Road Senior VP of Retail.
Recorded in Nashville, TN, Take The High Road paired the Blind Boys with a new style of gospel music for them, and also a group of fans who had long wanted to work with them. "I have been a Blind Boys fan for as long as I can remember listening to music," says Duane Allen of The Oak Ridge Boys. "Working with them in the studio was like working with old friends. The energy level was 'out of the roof.' Take The High Roadis more than a recording. It's an experience." The recording sessions were so powerful that word spread quickly and some of Nashville's biggest legends dropped in just to listen, including George Jones, Bill Anderson and Bobby Bare.
A special video preview of the album can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkx-CPjrAf0, with behind-the-scenes footage and audio clips of select songs (for iPads and iPhones: https://www.nevessa.com/video/BBA/BBA%20sizzle%20iphone.mp4).
The Blind Boys of Alabama have won five Grammy Awards, been bestowed Lifetime Achievement Awards by both the Grammys and The National Endowment for the Arts and have been inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. They continue to tour the world, performing over 100 concerts each year.
