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American gospel-blues musician Blind Willie Johnson recorded "John the Revelator" in 1930. Subsequently, a variety of artists, including the Golden Gate Quartet , Son House , Depeche Mode , Jerry Garcia Band , The White Stripes , The Forest Rangers , The Sword , have recorded their renditions of the song, often with variations in the verses and ...
In addition to tracks by the Blues Brothers Band performed with guest artists such as Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Dr. John, Lonnie Brooks, Junior Wells, Eddie Floyd and Wilson Pickett, there are songs by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Blues Traveler as well as an all-star blues supergroup, the Louisiana Gator Boys, featuring B.B. King ...
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.
John the Revelator (John of Patmos) is the traditional author of the Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament. John the Revelator may also refer to: "John the Revelator" (folk/blues song), a traditional American folk blues song first recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1930 "John the Revelator / Lilian", a 2006 single by Depeche Mode
"JTR" began as "John the Revelator," which first appeared live as a tease played twice during a show on November 30, 1998. [2] Afterwards, the song was played in full a total five times – twice in acoustic set by Matthews and Tim Reynolds, and three times with the full band and various guests, such as The Lovely Ladies, Béla Fleck, and the band Santana. [3]
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. [2]
The album features gospel call and response songs like "John the Revelator", about John of Patmos, the writer of the Book of Revelation who recounts the opening of seven seals and the ensuing apocalyptic events [12] and "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" about the Parable of the Ten Virgins from the Gospel of Matthew, 25:1–13. [13]
In 1953 they auditioned for Cosimo Matassa at J&M Studio with the songs John The Revelator and Bye and Bye. Matassa encouraged the group to consider singing Rhythm and Blues. Local guitarist and songwriter Adolph Smith wrote two songs for the newly rechristened Spiders, cut in their initial Imperial Records session.