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As of May 2012, Dark Was the Night has raised over $1.6 million, a sum that represents all the profits from worldwide sales. John Carlin acknowledged the reason for the album's success, saying "Dark Was the Night encapsulated the spirit and creativity of a new generation of musicians whose work struck a chord and got people to actually purchase the album and raise hundreds of thousands of ...
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 ...
Tyler Hisel's screenplay for The Trees (later to become Dark Was the Night) was included in the 2009 Hollywood Blacklist (the annual list of the top 100 screenplays). [5] The film is loosely based on the real-life events that unfolded in Topsham, England in 1855, known as the Devil's Footprints. The small town woke to find freshly fallen snow ...
Dark Was the Night, Blind Willie Johnson. Listening to Blind Willie Johnson is like peering into the birthplace of all of the music I have ever loved. The depth of feeling in “Dark Was the Night ...
Appearing on the album, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, the song deals with two people as they struggle through depression, addiction, and an interminable night. [1] Conor Oberst appears alone on the track, on vocals and acoustic guitar. The song also appears as a duet with Gillian Welch on the album Dark Was the Night.
A cover of "Train Song" performed by Ben Gibbard and Feist appeared on Dark Was The Night, a charity compilation benefiting HIV/AIDS awareness and the Red Hot Organization. It was released by 4AD on 17 February 2009. "Diamond Day" was featured in the popular UK teen comedy/drama Skins on the third series (2009), episode six entitled "Naomi".
Big Red Machine began as a musical collaboration in 2008, when Aaron Dessner messaged Justin Vernon on MySpace, without any prior personal meeting.Dessner sent Vernon an instrumental idea for a compilation album named Dark Was the Night, benefiting the Red Hot Organization, which he wanted Vernon to write a song for. [3]
Dark Was the Night may refer to: Dark Was the Night, a 2009 compilation album; Dark Was the Night, an American thriller film; Dark Was the Night, an American drama film "Dark Was the Night" (Grey's Anatomy), a 2011 episode of Grey's Anatomy