Go Tell It on the Mountain (album)

Go Tell It on the Mountain
Studio album by The Blind Boys of Alabama
Released	September 16, 2003
Recorded	2003
Studio	Capitol Studio B, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Gospel music
Length	45:18
Label	Real World, Narada
Producer	John Chelew
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Go Tell It on the Mountain is a Grammy Award winning Christmas album by The Blind Boys of Alabama, released in 2003.

Track listing

"Last Month of the Year" – 3:03
"I Pray on Christmas" (featuring Solomon Burke)– 3:41
"Go Tell It on the Mountain" – (featuring Tom Waits)3:57
"Little Drummer Boy"(featuring Michael Franti) – 3:19
"In the Bleak Midwinter" (featuring Chrissie Hynde & Richard Thompson)– 4:49
"Joy to the World" (featuring Aaron Neville) – 2:25
"Born in Bethlehem" (featuring Mavis Staples)– 6:36
"The Christmas Song" (featuring Shelby Lynne)– 2:34
"Away in a Manger" (featuring George Clinton & Robert Randolph)– 5:22
"Oh Come All Ye Faithful" – 2:10
"White Christmas" (featuring Les McCann)– 4:03
"Silent Night" – 3:19
"My Lord, What a Morning" - bonus track

Charts

2004 Top Gospel Albums No. 1
2004 Top Internet Albums No. 247

Awards

2004 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

DVD

A DVD, Blind Boys of Alabama - Go Tell it on the Mountain : Live in New York, was recorded live in concert, in December 2003, at the Beacon Theater in New York City. The special holiday concert aired on PBS in December 2004. The band performs with Aaron Neville, John Medeski, Duke Robillard, Chrissie Hynde, Mavis Staples, Michael Franti, Robert Randolph, and Charlie Musselwhite.

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Les McCann
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted. As Les McCann Ltd is often used in the titles for the albums up to 1964, this has been omitted.
Albums as leader or co-leader	It's About Time (with Teddy Edwards, 1959) The Truth (1960) The Shout (1960) In San Francisco (1960) From the Top of the Barrel (1960) Groove (with Richard "Groove" Holmes and Ben Webster, 1961) In New York (1961) Plays the Shampoo (1961) New from the Big City (1961) Pretty Lady (1961) Les McCann Sings (1961) Somethin' Special (with Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1962) On Time (1962) The Gospel Truth (1963) Soul Hits (1963) Jazz Waltz (with The Jazz Crusaders, 1963) A Bag of Gold (1963–64) McCanna (1964) Spanish Onions (1964) McCann/Wilson (with Nancy Wilson (1964) But Not Really (1964) Beaux J. Pooboo (1965) Live at Shelly's Manne-Hole (1965) Les McCann Plays the Hits (1966) Bucket O' Grease (1966) Live at Bohemian Caverns - Washington, DC (1967) Much Les (1968) Swiss Movement (and Eddie Harris, 1969) Comment (1969) Invitation to Openness (1971) Second Movement (with Eddie Harris, 1971) Layers (1972) Live at Montreux (1972) Talk to the People (1972) Another Beginning (1974)
With others	Tell It Like It Tis (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1962) Stormy Monday (with Lou Rawls, 1962) That's Where It's At (Stanley Turrentine, 1962) Straight Ahead (Stanley Turrentine, 1984) Go Tell It on the Mountain (The Blind Boys of Alabama, 2003)