The same year, Waits contributed backing vocals to the track " Go Tell It on the Mountain " on the Grammy Award ( Best Traditional Gospel Album )- winning album of the same name by The Blind Boys of Alabama.

The other versions used for the series were performed by, in season order, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Neville Brothers, " DoMaJe " and Steve Earle.

* The original members of the gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama met in Talladega at The Alabama School for the Blind.

At the age of ten and under the guidance of his father Jesse, Garry and his brothers played and sang behind many gospel artists of the time including legends such as Shirley Caesar, The Five Blind Boys, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, and others.

** John Chelew ( producer ), Larry Hirsch, Jimmy Hoyson ( engineers ) & the Blind Boys of Alabama for Spirit of the Century

* The Blind Boys of Alabama ( 2002 )

In December 2003 Burke sang " I Pray on Christmas " on the Go Tell It on the Mountain Christmas album ( Real World ) of the Blind Boys of Alabama, which won for them a Grammy for Best Traditional Gospel Album.

It was Clarence Fountain's first project after having left the Blind Boys of Alabama.

The 1930s saw the Fairfield Four, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys, the Swan Silvertones, the Charioteers, and the Golden Gate Quartet.

* John Chelew ( producer ), Jimmy Hoyson ( engineer / mixer ) & the Blind Boys of Alabama for Higher Ground

* Jimmy Carter ( born 1929 ), American lead singer in The Blind Boys of Alabama

Performers who use acoustic 12-string guitars span a range of genres, from folk ( Arlo Guthrie, Keith Potger, John Denver, Gordon Lightfoot, Ben Woodward, Pete Seeger and Noel Paul Stookey ), through reggae ( Bob Marley ), traditional blues ( Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, and Guy Davis ), folk rock ( Paul Simon, Neil Young, Tim Buckley, Gerry Beckley, John Allan Cameron ) and country ( Pinmonkey's Michael Reynolds, Taylor Swift and Mike Nesmith ), to rock bands ( Mark Tremonti of Creed and Alter Bridge, Jimi Hendrix on " Hear My Train A-Comin ", Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi, Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys, George Harrison, John Lennon of The Beatles, Robert Smith of The Cure, David Bowie for his " Space Oddity " live performances, Pete Townshend of The Who, Roger Hodgson ( ex-Supertramp ), who used acoustic 12-string on " Give a Little Bit ", " Even in the Quietest Moments ", " C ' est le Bon " and " Know Who You Are "; Melissa Etheridge, Tom Petty and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Greg Lake on " Lucky Man " and " Still ... You Turn Me On ", Brian May of Queen, Andy Partridge and Dave Gregory of XTC, and Nick Valensi of The Strokes ).

It is through this merger that the label has released remastered editions of collections from such musicians as Eric Burdon, Fanny, Dannii Minogue, The Ramones, The Grateful Dead, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Beach Boys, Yes, The Doobie Brothers, The Cars, Chicago, Tom Paxton, Third Eye Blind, The Doors, War, Spirit of the West and most recently The Bee Gees ; as well as soundtracks spanning the Turner-owned pre-1986 MGM and pre-1950 Warner Bros. periods, in addition to WB's own post-1949 period.

Artists like the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, The Swan Silvertones, Clara Ward Singers and Sensational Nightingales became stars across the country ; other early artists like Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Johnnie Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett began their career in gospel quartets during this period, only to achieve even greater fame in the ' 60s as the pioneers of soul music, itself a secularized, R & B-influenced form of gospel.

Gospel music, especially the Five Blind Boys of Alabama, has been especially influential in the state ( see also the Birmingham Sunlights ).

* Blind Boys of Alabama-Gospel group, based in Talladega

* The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

She has appeared on recordings by Basement Jaxx, Indigo Girls, and The Blind Boys of Alabama.

** The Blind Boys of Alabama for Go Tell It on the Mountain

Shirley Caesar and The Blind Boys of Alabama were the biggest recipients in this category with five wins each.

Inspired by Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers, the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, and the Pilgrim Travelers, getting into the music industry seemed inevitable.

* The Blind Boys of Alabama-backing vocals on " I Wanna Know ( The Pit And The Pendulum )"

At Texas A & M, Mims developed an infrared obstacle-sensing device and he experimented with it at the Saigon School for Blind Boys and Girls.

In 2003, the band released Live at Billy Bob's Texas, and by the end of the decade the band had released 2 more albums: Reinventing the Wheel, an entirely new set of songs, including a collaboration with The Blind Boys of Alabama ; and a two disc set Kings of Texas Swing.

The two first books I ever read in private, and which gave me more pleasure than any two books I ever read again, were The Life of Hannibal and The History of Sir William Wallace modernised version of Blind Harry by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield.

Subsidiary Communications Authority ( SCA's ) are used to transmit a Minnesota version of the Radio Talking Book Network to disabled listeners around the state, in cooperation with Minnesota State Services for the Blind.

The genre waned for a while but The New Dating Game and the UK version Blind Date revived it, and the old shows were popular in reruns, unusual for any game show.

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Bob Dylan used the melody in his song " Blind Willie McTell " ( released on Bootleg Series, Volumes 1 – 3 ), named for blues singer Blind Willie McTell ( who had recorded a version under the title " Dying Crapshooter's Blues "); the song makes reference to the St. James Hotel in Minneapolis.

Later this year, Blind Melon contributed a version of the song " Out on the Tiles " to the Encomium tribute album to Led Zeppelin, as well as a promotional CD with a cover of the Schoolhouse Rock!

* An instrumental version of the song " Blind Vision " by Blancmange is used for the closing credits of the 1985 b-movie Avenging Angel.

Blind Lemon Jefferson's big 1926 hit, " Got the Blues " and " Long Lonesome Blues ", had to be hurriedly rerecorded in the superior facilities of Marsh Laboratories and subsequent releases used that version ; since both versions appear on compilation albums, they may be compared.

The CD, recorded at Paradise Studios in South Central Indiana, featured all original tracks as well as a re-imagined version of " Amazing grace " as a closer, with the hymn " Blind man " as a hidden track.

In 2009, the quartet contributed an acoustic version of Blind Willie Johnson's " Dark Was the Night " for the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Blind signatures can also be used to provide unlinkability, which prevents the signer from linking the blinded message it signs to a later un-blinded version that it may be called upon to verify.

A remastered version of " Blind Dumb Deaf " is available on the 2000 compilation Stars and Topsoil.

Wild Turkey is mentioned in the lyrics of the song " Sober " by Muse ; in Ray Wylie Hubbard's 1973 hit ( with Jerry Jeff Walker and others ) " Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother ", ZZ Top ’ s " Arrested For Driving While Blind ", Danny Barker's version of " St. James Infirmary Blues ", the Cowboy Junkies ' " Where Are You Tonight?

In Mexico, The Blind Owl was translated from the Roger Lescot's French version into Spanish by Agustí Bartra, under the title La lechuza ciega.

* Blind man's bluff ( poker ), a version of poker

She was cast as a kindergarten teacher for the pilot of the 2001 American version of the British TV show Blind Men, alongside French Stewart.

The first season montage is played over " Step by Step " by Jesse Winchester, the second " I Feel Alright " by Steve Earle, the third " Fast Train " written by Van Morrison and performed by Solomon Burke, the fourth " I Walk on Gilded Splinters " written by Dr. John and performed by Paul Weller, and the fifth uses an extended version of " Way Down In The Hole " by the Blind Boys of Alabama, the same version of the song used as the opening theme for the first season.

* 2003: The Blind Boys of Alabama released a version of the song ( with vocals by Michel Franti ) on their album, Go Tell it On the Mountain.

Blind man's bluff ( also called Indian poker, or squaw poker or Indian head ) is a version of poker that is unconventional in that each person sees the cards of all players except his own.

During its coverage of the 2004 World Series of Poker, ESPN showed a Blind Man's Bluff version of Texas hold ' em.

His best remembered poem " The Blind Men and the Elephant ", a version of the ancient tale Blind men and an elephant, was not his most famous in his day.

The Blind Boys caught the ears of more listeners via their Grammy-nominated 1992 album Deep River, produced by Booker T. Jones, which featured a version of Bob Dylan's " I Believe In You.