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Blind Boys of Alabama: Almost Home

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To put things into perspective, when the Five Blind Boys of Alabama—the name under which they performed at the time—first recorded in 1948, most of the 1960s’ future rock and R&B heroes were still wondering how their lives would change once they got into junior high. Nearly 70 years later, Blind Boys of Alabama—with surviving octogenarian co-founders Clarence Fountain and Jimmy Carter still…