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Willie Neal Johnson (August 25, 1935 – January 10, 2001) was an American gospel singer, who became known as "Country Boy" for his rootsy blues-driven style and his down-to-earth, friendly personality. [1] Growing up in a musical family, he was recruited as a teenager to sing with a gospel group.
The song's title is borrowed from a hymn that was popular in the nineteenth century American South with fasola singers. “Gethsemane”, written by English clergyman Thomas Haweis in 1792, begins with the lines “Dark was the night, cold was the ground / on which my Lord was laid.” [3] Music historian Mark Humphrey describes Johnson's composition as an impressionistic rendition of ...
"Trouble" is this earthly life; the singer looks forward to a better, heavenly, one: "Trouble will soon be over, sorrow will have an end". The singer reflects that God was a friend to the Biblical King David, and hopes for like treatment: "I'll gauge that the same God that David served will give me rest some day".
Lookin' Out For Me (featuring Willie Neal Johnson) 5:53: 9. He Reigns (The Medley) (featuring Papa San) 4:27: DJ Turntables: Ernie Green Strings & Horns arranged by Shaun Martin & Lloyd Barry 10. Interlude: 2:37: 11. Don't Cry (featuring Richard Smallwood) 6:08: Piano: Richard Smallwood Strings arranged by Chris McDonald 12. The Transition: 0: ...
"It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" was one of the first songs recorded by Johnson for Columbia Records.The session took place in Dallas, Texas, on December 3, 1927. [3] Columbia released it as his second single on the then-standard 78 rpm record format, with "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" as the second side. [5]
The album was funded via a Kickstarter campaign that featured cigar box guitars made of wood from Willie Johnson's 1920s/1930s Marlin, Texas, home that he shared with wife Willie B Harris. These ten unique folk instruments are individually numbered and collectively known as the Blind Pilgrim Collection.
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The group, based in Memphis, Tennessee, was founded as The Gospel Writer Juniors, later changing its name to The Dixie Nightingales.The founding members included Ollie Hoskins (born 1936 in Batesville, Mississippi, United States, died October 26, 1997, Memphis, Tennessee), [1] Willie Neal, Nelson Lesure, Bill Davis, and Rochester Neal.