Produced by Justin Vernon of US indie folk band Bon Iver with guests including tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus and Patty Griffin the release date of I’ll Find A Way, by the veteran gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama, is confirmed by their label Sony Masterworks for a UK release of 30 September.

The Blind Boys, whose roots go back to the late-1930s and the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in Talladega, in the last decade since Spirit of the Century have risen to unprecedented stardom winning multiple Grammys among many other awards and accolades. Jimmy Carter, Eric ‘Ricky’ McKinnie, Joey Williams, Tracy Pierce, Ben Moore, and latest member Paul Beasley recorded the album in Wisconsin at Vernon’s April Base studio, with founding member Clarence Fountain’s bass vocals recorded in Birmingham, Alabama, added.

Tracks include ‘Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There,’ ‘I Am Not Waiting Any More’, a cover of the Chi-Lites’ ‘There Will Never Be Any Peace (Until God Is Seated at the Conference Table)’, ‘I’ve Been Searching’, ‘Jubilee’ featuring Patty Griffin whose latest album is reviewed here http://www.marlbank.net/reviews/582-meet-me-in-the-evening-when-the-river-is-low, and a cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Every Grain of Sand’, a duet between the Blind Boys’ Jimmy Carter and producer Vernon. The Blind Boys of Alabama pictured