Wikipedia - "'Blind' Willie Johnson (January 22, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was a gospel blues singer and guitarist. While the lyrics of his songs were often religious, his music drew from both sacred and blues traditions and is distinguished by his powerful bass thumb-picking and gravelly false-bass voice, with occasional use of a tenor voice. Blind Willie Johnson, according to his death certificate, was born in 1897 near Brenham, Texas, United States (before the discovery of his death certificate, Temple, Texas had been suggested as his birthplace). When he was five, he told his father he wanted to be a preacher and then made himself a cigar box guitar. His mother died when he was young and his father remarried soon after her death."
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Blind Willie Johnson: His Life and Music (Video)
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Dark Was the Night: The Life and Times of Blind Willie Johnson
YouTube: Trouble will soon be over (1927), Let Your Light Shine On Me, It's Nobody's Fault But Mine, Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed, If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Builing Down
2013 August: "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"
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