Exclusive: MarcCohn & blindboys of Alabama team up for soulful WorkToDo
. The upcoming , whose title track is premiering exclusively below, marks their first full-fledged, and in Cohn's estimation, inevitable collaboration.of the five-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group. "I think we had already done some shows together, but since that came out, we've done more, and it's been great.
“They're such great musicians and great singers, so much personality and soul,” he says. “The more we play, the easier it gets, and the arrangements just fall into place." The Blind Boys' Jimmy Carter adds, "It has been wonderful to get to know and work with Marc Cohn. Marc's a great person and a great singer. We have had a ball touring with him."
The "Work to Do" track, according to Cohn, is intended to be "just gospel" but was tailor-made for the Blind Boys. "It's really meant to be an older man's song, more along the lines of Jimmy Carter," he explains. "It's a song about feeling like you’re at the end of your road, but not at the end of your work. I really heard his voice and him singing it. To me, it's really Jimmy’s song, and I'm just singing the lead.
After touring together in June, Cohn and The Blind Boys -- along with Taj Mahal -- have six shows set for August, following release, and both hope more will follow in 2020. Cohn, meanwhile, will be touring on his own this fall, and he's working on his next album, his first of all-original material since 2007's "Ever so slowly -- as has always been the case. I have three or four songs that might be the beginning of the record,” he adds.
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