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"In My Time of Dying" (also called "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" or a variation thereof) is a gospel music song by Blind Willie Johnson. The title line, closing each stanza of the song, refers to a deathbed and was inspired by a passage in the Bible from Psalms 41:3 "The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing, thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness".
The first releases were I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole and Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed, on Columbia's popular 14000 Race series. His debut was a substantial success as 9,400 copies were pressed, more than the latest release by one of Columbia's most established stars, Bessie Smith with an additional pressing of 6,000 copies followed. [13]
"Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" (Columbia 14276-D) "Motherless Children" ("Mother's Children Have a Hard Time") (Columbia 14343-D ) December 5, 1928, Dallas, Texas
"I Know) His Blood Can (or, Will) Make Me Whole" is a traditional gospel blues song recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927. It was released on his first single, with the flip side "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed".
"Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" – 3:12 "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine" – 3:09 "Mother's Children Have a Hard Time" – 3:21 "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" – 3:20 "If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down" – 3:08 "I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge" – 3:23 "Jesus Is Coming Soon" – 3:11 "Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying ...
"Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed" Columbia 14276-D, 1927: 3:15: 13. "Bye and Bye I'm Goin' to See the King" Columbia 14504-D, 1929: 2:59: 14. "Praise God I'm Satisfied" Columbia 14545-D, 1929: 3:15: 15. "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" Columbia 14425-D, 1928: 3:07: 16. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" Columbia 14303-D, 1927: 3:25: Total ...
The Soul of a Man is an album of "twenty haunting spiritual blues songs" recorded in the late 1920s and 1930 by the American gospel blues singer and guitarist Blind Willie Johnson that was released by Charly Records in 2003.
Reverend J. C. Burnett was an American preacher who recorded gospel songs and sermons extensively in the late-1920s and intermittently thereafter until the 1940s. During his heyday, recording for Columbia Records, Burnett was one of the most commercially successful preachers on race records, alongside Reverend J. M. Gates and Reverend A. W. Nix.