 Artist: Blind Willie Johnson: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Country Discography:  Dark Was The Night Year: 1997 Tracks: 22  The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (cd2) Year: 1993 Tracks: 16  The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (cd1) Year: 1993 Tracks: 14  The Soul Of A Man Year: Tracks: 14  King of the Guitar Evangelists Year: Tracks: 1 Seminal gospel-blues artist Blind Willie Johnson is regarded as one of the superlative bottleneck slide guitarists. Yet the Texas corner evangelist is known as much for the his sinewy and fervid hoarse articulation as he is for his power as a guitar player. He most often panax quinquefolius in a rough, bass part voice (only on occasion delivering in his instinctive tenor voice) with a volume meant to be heard all over the sounds of the streets. Johnson recorded a identification number of 30 songs during a three-year flow and many of these became classics of the gospel-blues, including "Redeemer Make up My Dying Bed," "Idol Don't Never Change," and his most illustrious, "Dark Was the Night -- Cold Was the Ground." It is generally agreed that Johnson was natural in a modest ithiel Town hardly South of Waco near Temple, TX, round 1902. His mother died while he was still a baby, and his sire finally remarried. When Johnson was just about seven years old, his sire and stepmother fought and the stepmother threw lye water, plain at the father, simply the lye got in Willie Johnson's eyes, blazing him. As he got elder, Johnson began earning money by playing his guitar, one of the few avenues left to a blind homo to garner a living. Instead of a bottleneck, Johnson actually played lantern slide with a pocketknife. Over the long time, Johnson played guitar most much in an heart-to-heart D tuning, picking single-note melodies, piece exploitation his lantern slide and strumming a bass line with his ovolo. He was, however, known to encounter in a unlike tuning and without the slide on a few rare occasions. Regardless of his fantabulous blues technique and heavy, Johnson didn't want to be a bluesman, for he was a passionate worshipper in the Bible. So, he began tattle the religious doctrine and interpreting Negro spirituals. He became a Baptist sermonizer and brought his sermons and music to the streets of the circumferent cities. While playacting in Dallas, he met a womanhood named Angeline and the deuce married in 1927. Angeline added nineteenth century hymns to Johnson's repertoire, and the two performed around the Dallas and Waco areas. On December 3, 1927, Columbia Records brought Blind Willie Johnson into the studio apartment where he recorded six songs that became some of his most enduring recordings: a sung dynasty about Samson and Delilah called "If I Had My Way," "Mother's Children Have a Hard Time" (much understood as "motherless children"), "It's Nobody's Fault just Mine," "The Nazarene Make up My Dying Bed," " I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole," and Johnson's individual most-acclaimed song, "Dark Was the Night -- Cold Was the Ground," which is or so the excruciation of Christ. But after this session, Johnson didn't return to the studio for an total year. The moment visit (which took place on December 5, 1928) establish him accompanied by his wife, Angeline, world Health Organization provided support vocals. The deuce recorded iV songs, including "I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge" and "Divine, I Just Can't Keep From Cryin'." Songs from these first base 2 roger Huntington Sessions were besides issued on the Vocalion label. Several months afterwards, Willie and Angeline Johnson met Elder Dave Ross and went with him to New Orleans where Blind Willie Johnson recorded ten songs for Columbia. From this December 1929 school term came a few more of his best-known songs, including "Supreme Being Don't Never Change," "Have Your Light Shine on Me," and "You'll Need Somebody on Your Bond." Although Blind Willie Johnson was one of Columbia's best-selling race recording artists, he only recorded for them one more than time -- in April 1930 -- after which he ne'er heard from them once again. This concluding session took place in Atlanta, GA (again, Johnson was accompanied by Angeline world Health Organization actually panax quinquefolius lead on a few numbers game this clip), and consisted of ten songs, including "Can't Nobody Hide From God," "Whoremaster the Revelator," and the slightly altered "You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond." These last 2 songs were issued on one record that was withdrawn briefly later on its tone ending. Despite the fact that Johnson did not record afterwards 1930, he continued to do on the Texas streets during the '30s and '40s. Unfortunately, in 1947, the Johnsons' home plate burnt to the ground. He caught pneumonia shortly thereafter and died in the ashes of his former home around 1 calendar week afterward it was ruined. Purportedly, Angeline Johnson went on to work as a nurse during the fifties. Over the years, many artists have covered the gospel singing songs made famous by Blind Willie Johnson, including Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and Ry Cooder ("Dark Was the Night" inspired Cooder's score for the motion picture French capital, Texas). Johnson's birdcall "If I Had My Way" was even revived as a popular hit during the 1960s when it was covered by the present-day folk music band Peter, Paul and Mary. Several fantabulous collections of Blind Willie Johnson's music live, including Dark Was the Night (on Sony) and Praise God, I'm Satisfied (on Yazoo). Johnson's music as well appears on many compilations of area megrims and chute guitar. |
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