Listen: Stream Justin Vernon Produced Blind Boys Of Alabama Album

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The Blind Boys of Alabama have made a beautiful new album, I’ll Find a Way, with the help of Bon Iver/Volcano Choir frontman Justin Vernon. This is a classic gospel album, but with some very hip guests including Shara Worden of My Brightest Star, Patty Griffin and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs. Vernon himself joins the group on “Every Grain of Sand.”

 

I’ll Find a Way tracklist:

1. God Put A Rainbow In The Cloud

2. I’ll Find A Way (To Carry It All) (featuring Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond)

3. I Am Not Waiting Anymore (featuring Sam Amidon)

4. I Shall Not Be Moved

5. Take Me To The Water

6. I’ve Been Searching (featuring  Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs)

7. There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated At The Conference Table) (featuring Casey Dienel of White Hinterland)

8. Take your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There

9. Every Grain Of Sand (featuring Justin Vernon of Bon Iver)

10. My God Is Real

11. Jubilee (featuring Patty Griffin)

Much thanks to the Wall Street Journal.

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