Mighty Clouds of Joy

Sound in the house.

So a lot of people don't know my granddad is Joe Ligon of the Mighty Clouds of Joy.

That's my granddad.

So that kind of was the sound.

Imagine you're lost Don't just stop what you got me doing A rainbow of people, every race

yeah this one breaking through the clouds uh ironically by the mighty clouds of joy uh that one called glow love the one before that dabby blackwell with uh once you get me going uh really keeping it on this like fun disco-y friday afternoon tip so we'll keep it here for the last 20 what have we got 20 25 20 minutes left Yeah, you're on Voices Radio with me, Justin, standing in for Maria.

But yeah, keep it locked.

Give us a wave if you're listening still.

The other day, I was doing an interview.

A young man that was interviewing us knew a lot about the Mighty Clouds.

He said to me, Joe, you've been singing 30 years now.

He said, what were some of the most memorable things that has happened in your career? He began to name some things that I had forgot about.

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.