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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 ...
December 3, 1927, Dallas, Texas "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" (Columbia 14303-D) "I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole" (Columbia 14276-D) "If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down" ("Oh Lord If I Had My Way") (Columbia 14343-D)
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.
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, Cold Was the Ground” is truly ...
American Epic: The Best of Blind Willie Johnson is a compilation album released to accompany the award-winning American Epic documentary film series. [1] It collects performances from Blind Willie Johnson's five recording sessions for Columbia Records in Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans between 1927 and 1930.
'Saturday Night' depicts the 90 minutes leading up to the very first episode of 'SNL' — but it takes some liberties with the truth. Here's what's fact and what's fiction.
"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 earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.