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Blind Boys of Alabama Go Down to New Orleans
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Paul O'Donnell
Spending five decades on the black gospel circuit is called paying your dues, but now that mainstream success has come for the Blind Boys of Alabama, they aren’t thinking about paying themselves back. As they sing in their new CD “Down in New Orleans,” “you got to live and give.” The disc, recorded in New…
Ledisi’s ‘Lost and Found’ Is a Find
By
Douglas Howe
In her third album, 2007 Grammy Award Nominee Ledisi promises “fiery vocals, funk-up rhythm and absolute soul.” And in her 14 full tracks (and two mini-tracks) that make up “Lost and Found,” she delivers. As one of Billboard Magazine’s “Top 10 Faces to Watch in 2007,” Ledisi has been carving out a name for herself…
Amy Winehouse: The Spirit of the Grammys
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Paul O'Donnell
Amy Winehouse was not only the big winner at The Grammys last night, she was kind of a mascot for a broadcast that, as The New York Times pointed out today, were oddly haunted by loss. Video-ported in from London (she was denied a U.S. visa because of a pot bust in Norway), her performance…
The Grammy’s Gospel Segment
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dross
In what was one of the highlights of last night’s Grammy Awards, Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin performed a moving deut of “Never Gonna Break My Faith” with gospel star BeBe Winans. In addition, gospel artists The Clark Sisters, Trin-I-Tee 5:7, and Isreal and New Breed–who later won the Grammy for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album,…
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