The Blind Boys of Alabama Quotes

We were all going to a school for the blind in a little town in Alabama called Talladega. All the kids from the state who were blind would go to that school. We started off in a choir, from the choir we formed a glee club, and from the glee club we became The Blind Boys of Alabama.
Jimmy Carter

In the beginning we weren�t The Blind Boys; we were called the Hackerland Jubilee Singers. What happened was there was another blind group from Mississippi called the Jackson Harmineers. We were both invited to a battle of music, and the DJ, to promote his program, used the gimmick, �The blind boys of Mississippi gonna battle the blind boys of Alabama.� It stuck and that�s how we got the name The Blind Boys of Alabama. 
Jimmy Carter