By Joseph Allen
As Alabama and Tuscaloosa celebrate bicentennials this year, it’s hard to imagine an embodiment that better represents the best of the state than The Blind Boys of Alabama.
The gospel group represents perseverance, dedication, determination and longevity. It has a direct connection to one of the nation’s top schools – the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind – and recalls one of the state’s greatest icons in Helen Keller.
Then there is the music.Soul-stirring, spirit-lifting, foot-stomping, hand-clapping, life-changing music. It flows like the Alabama River. It swings like a pine limb in the Alabama wind. It burns like an Alabama summer. It satisfies like an Alabama Sunday dinner.
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