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February 16, 2005
Blind Boys of Alabama, Jay Leno, Feb. 15 2005
Okay, so I'm sick of seeing the same review up every day on this site, and, yet, I still feel too burnt out on live shows to head out to one to write about. So, with that in mind, here is a review of the Blind Boys of Alabama on Jay Leno in real time. They just won a Grammy. and their latest album is called "Atom Bomb." Shit. Who can deny 5 black men singing about nuclear weaponry?
So, the Blind Boys are singing the title track from their latest album and it just seems so strange to me that they, these 50-year-old men, are singing about nuclear war when everyone else is just obsessed with the whole war thing. Mind you that North Korea's nuclear capabilities make it all the more prescient. I wonder if they would have sung this song--a great old shuffling blues song that ends on a suspended "hit like an atom bauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmb"--if their was no North Korea. Only the blind men know.
Okay. Conan O'Brien is on.
WRITE MORE OFTEN. PLEASE.
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Posted by Mark at February 16, 2005 12:30 AM
