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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 ...
This is a list of all 30 songs recorded by the gospel blues musician Blind Willie Johnson (1897–1945), arranged both in alphabetical order by title and in chronological order by recording date. All were originally released by Columbia Records as 10-inch 78-rpm singles.
God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson (Alligator Records) earned Grammy Award nominations for Best Roots Gospel Album and Best American Roots Performance for Blind Boys of Alabama recording of Mother's Children Have a Hard Time. [1] The compilation was produced by Jeffrey Gaskill of Burning Rose Productions.
Blind Willie Johnson was born on January 25, 1897, in Pendleton, Texas, a small town near Temple, Texas, to sharecropper Dock Johnson and Mary King. [2] His family, which according to the blues historian Stephen Calt included at least one younger brother (named Carl), moved to the agriculturally rich community of Marlin, where Johnson spent most of his childhood.
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson is a compilation album of all the known recordings by American gospel blues singer-guitarist Blind Willie Johnson. [1] As part of the Roots N' Blues series, it was released jointly by Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings , on April 27, 1993.
2009 – Ashley Cleveland, on the album God Don't Never Change [10] 2009 – The Radiators, on the album 10/09/09 New Orleans, LA Tipitinas [11] 2014 – Levon Helm Band, on the album The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 3 [12] 2016 – Lucinda Williams, on the various artists' album God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson [13]
During production on the American Epic films it was decided to close the historical documentaries with a piece on Blind Willie Johnson and the placing of his song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" on a golden record fastened to the sides of the two Voyager space probes.
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", a 1927 song by Blind Willie Johnson This page was last edited on 2 December 2018, at 11:40 (UTC). Text is available under ...