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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 ...
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.
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)
"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]
A divided U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Border Patrol to cut razor wire that Texas installed, for now, but the state continues to erect more. The federal government argued the wire impedes its ...
Migrant crossings in this area have dropped from over 10,000 one December day to about 200 per day recently. In all, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had almost 250,000 migrant encounters ...
Texas Border Czar Mike Banks visits Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas where the Texas National Guard has set up infrastructure to prevent asylum seekers from entering U.S. territory on April 16, 2024.
[2] [3] The success of the audio restoration of "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" inspired the filmmakers to source the best surviving masters of their favorite Johnson performances and reissue them on an album. [4] [5] [6]