Because if he'd called it John the Revealer it would sound like he was singing about a flasher. Got that sorted? Okay. What we've got here a first generation recording, back from when there was no real distinction between gospel music and the blues. Recorded in 1930, it has Blind Willie Johnson at his gruffest and gravelliest. He would have made a great death metal vocalist. His voice sounds all the more remarkable because he's paired with a unknown female singer in a call and response pattern. She's great too, [...]
Today's Gospel Sunday Song of the Day comes from gospel-blues guitarist Blind Willie Johnson, a Texas preacher and musician whose 30 songs were recorded in the three year period from 1927 to 1930. Johnson, who reportedly lost his sight as a child when his stepmother accidentally threw lye into his eyes, mainly performed on street corners and remained poor throughout his life. However, he was an excellent slide guitarist and his influence has been long-lasting, with songs like "Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground" becoming gospel classics. Check out "God Don't Never Change" for a taste of [...]
Courtesy of kidrock.comCountry rap, or "hick-hop" as it's sometimes called, may seem to capture either the height of musical irony, or the height of its stupidity. Probably both. But in the book The A
see the following for lyrics and details Blind Willie Johnson ( 1929 ) God Moves on the Water Encyclopedia Titanica (ref: #4823, accessed 9th April 2012 04:05:20 AM) URL : http://www.encyclopedia-titani ca.org/godmoves.html
Tom Schnabel This week, mont h, and year mark the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking. Actually today, April 15th was the exact day the great ship went down. Readers are asked to forgive the length of this post, but the Titanic brings up so many things. Here are three pieces of music that relate to it (certainly there must be others too). The first is a 1929 blues song by Blind Willie Johnson, called "God Moves on the Water". Johnson [...]
This video is a re-enactment, but I really like it. I hope you enjoy it too, I think it is a great blues song for a Sunday morning. Blind Willie Johnson Trouble Soon be Over Gospel Blues @SqueezeMyLemon Blind Willie Johnson @ Amazon.com
Notes form YouTube: " God Don't Never Change " Tuesday, 10 December 1929 NEW ORLEANS Gospel Blues @ SqueezeMyLemon
It’s no secret to native Texans, but to all you recent immigrants to the Lone Star State may have noticed lately, it’s F-ING RELENTLESSLY HOT OUTSIDE! With Temperatures hovering above 100 and no relief in sight, it’s hard to stay pleasant. Heat waves and droughts like this one are so damned oppressive, and may make you just feel flat-out angry and depressed at the world, your fellow man, and especially those teasing bastard clouds, hanging there just laughing at us and our collective misery. F those assholes, seriously its thundering as I write this with no rain to show for [...]
I'm off for a few days visiting the coolest city in the world. Maybe meet a hobgoblin or two. In my absence, please make do with this sparkling theme time ten pack. Hasta luego /back soon... Shuggie Otis - Sparkle City MP3 Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge MP3 Bob Dylan - Marchin' To The City MP3 The Only Ones - City Of Fun MP3 [...]
Stop whatever you are doing right now and click THiS LiNK to download Cigarbox Nation 's Tribute to Blind Willie Johnson. It's a terrific 28 track compilation featuring 28 different cigarbox guitar stylists. And it's free!
Totally went off last night at Nate's birthday party. There was a gnarly stripper in a LOST replica DHARMA Initiative jumpsuit, way too much Flip Cup, a 4:00am Dance Dance Revolution competition, and the cops only showed up twice investigating noise complaints! I'd say we successfully dragged the birthday boy into the first hours of his 27th year with style. So, I'm gonna get some rest. How's about a mix tape for you. RULES for uninitiated noobs : I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods [...]
We look back at some classic White Stripes performances in anticipation of Conan's debut tonight (which features Jack White)!
An excellent introduction to his music 1. Mother's Children Have A Hard Time 2. Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed 3. It's Nobody's Fault But Mine 4. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole 5. Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground 6. If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down 7. Bye And Bye I'm Going To See The King 8. Soul Of A Man 9. Lord I Can't [...]
Recorded for you from the sunny, blazing hot mountains of Andalucia, this one is a little late being uploaded because we only just got back to Scotland and I decided I might as well wait until we got home before uploading it rather than charge all around Spain trying to find somewhere to upload from and then sitting around for ages waiting for the damn thing to... well, you get the picture. I actually spent much of the week editing Toad Session videos, which seems just a tiny little bit pathetic, even to me. Still, editing video whilst [...]
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Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive As he was preparing his upcoming album, 'We Walk This Road,' pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph and his producer T-Bone Burnett were working on the song 'If I Had My Way' by bluesman Blind Willie Johnson . At first, the results proved to be unsatisfactory. However, the presence of guitarist Ben Harper turned things around. "[Ben] listened to that song and his eyes lit up," Randolph tells [...]
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