The Backpages Interview: Clarence Fountain of the Blind Boys of Alabama

A sixty-plus-year-old gospel group that covers Tom Waits and the Rolling Stones songs for Peter Gabriel’s label? Is it possible? When most groups struggle to last a year, a group that goes back to 1939 and tours with an all-star band (Charlie Musselwhite, John Hammond, David Lindley, Danny Thompson) is definitely news.