It's been 70(!) years since a few students in their early teens at the Talladega Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind in Birmingham hit the road as the Happy Land Jubilee Singers. Decades later, as the Blind Boys of Alabama, they're an institution themselves, still singing gospel standards—and far more—as if their lives depended on it, raising up soul-stirring, gloriously rich harmonies. The group's Christmas show has become an institution, too, since the 2003 release of... More >>>