Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

My friend Roscoe Robinson, who is a mentor of mine, who was one of the original kind of gospel screamers.

He was saying with the Blind Boys of Mississippi going back to the 50s and Not the

blind boys of Alabama.

Later, he was in the blind boys of Alabama.

The very idea of turning a performance into testimony that soul singers would carry into secular music.

And Archie Brownlee gave us Our Father with the original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, known then as the Jackson Harmoneers.

Archie was another of gospel's great shouters, a singer who could move from a sweet tenor into a rasping roar and transform a quartet performance into something approaching a revival meeting.

And we opened with the Pilgrim Travelers in their 1949 specialty recording, Jesus Met the Woman at the Well.

Amen.

and none other greater royalty than the five blind boys of Alabama, inviting you to sit down and rest a little while here on Center's Crossroads on WFMU.

I want you to help me, help me.

Deep and wide I want to see Jesus I see my Jesus on the other side Make me want to sing I want to rest a little while I know somebody here I want to rest a while I want to rest a little while I want to rest a little while One of these days I want to rest a little while I want to rest a little while You look for me, but I'll be gone.

Right.

Down south in New Orleans, I started at 12 years old, and I had a group called The Sunset Travelers, and we traveled with a lot of different gospel groups, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Five Blind Boys, Mississippi, Alabama, Swan Silver Tones.

And so we toured the, the actual So- we had a hot group, Sunset Travelers.

Uh-huh.