FOLEY, Alabama — The eerie keening of Blind Willie Johnson’s guitar.
The preaching songs of Rev. Gary Davis.
Ray Charles singing “What’d I Say?”
Those are just a few of the blind musicians from the gospel tradition whose sound rings through what we now call American music.
The public radio music documentary “Heavenly Sight: A Vision Out of Blindness” tells this rich story in music and interviews. It is distributed to public radio stations nationwide by Public Radio International while its trove of rare audio and images will be preserved at www.heavenlysight.org and made available worldwide.
The program will air at 8 p.m. Feb. 18 on WTSU in Troy, Ala., 8 p.m. Feb. 22 on KDAQ in Shreveport, La., and later this month on WLRH in Huntsville.
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