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The Complete Recordings Of Blind Willie Johnson (CD)

By: Blind Willie Johnson (Artist)

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Blind Willie Johnson Artist Snapshot:

An enormously influential gospel bluesman, Blind Willie Johnson played slide guitar with a haunting intensity that rivals Robert Johnson. His brief recording career ended with the onset of the Depression, but he continued performing up until his death from pneumonia in 1945.

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DISC 1 for The Complete Recordings Of Blind Willie Johnson (CD) Album By Blind Willie Johnson (Artist)
1   I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
2   Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
3   It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
4   Mother's Children Have A Hard Time
5   Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground
6   If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down
7   I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge
8   Jesus Is Coming Soon
9   Lord I Can't Just Keep From Crying
10   Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
11   Let Your Light Shine On Me
12   God Don't Never Change
13   Bye And Bye I'm Goin' To See The King
14   Sweeter As The Years Roll By
 
DISC 2 for The Complete Recordings Of Blind Willie Johnson (CD) Album By Blind Willie Johnson (Artist)
1   You'll Need Somebody On Your Bond
2   When The War Was On
3   Praise God I'm Satisfied
4   Take Your Burden To The Lord And Leave It There
5   Take Your Stand
6   God Moves On The Water
7   Can't Nobody Hide From God
8   If It Had Not Been For Jesus
9   Go To Me With That Land
10   Rain Don't Fall On Me, The
11   Trouble Will Soon Be Over
12   Soul Of A Man, The
13   Everybody Ought To Treat A Stranger Right
14   Church, I'm Fully Saved To-Day
15   John The Revelator
16   You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (9/2/93, p.64) - "...adds no new discoveries to his discography, but it boasts clearer sound than the Yazoo reissues..."
Q (9/93, p.96) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS] are as crude as you'd expect...nonetheless, the intensity and strangeness of `Dark Was The Night' suggests [Blind Willie Johnson] belongs among the heavy hitters..."

Title Note

Personnel includes: Blind Willie Johnson (slide guitar, vocals).

Reissue producers: Lawrence Cohn, Gary Pacheco.

Recorded between 1927 and 1930. Includes liner notes by Samuel Charters.

Digitally remastered by David Mitson (Sony Music Studios, Los Angeles, California).

This is part of Columbia/Legacy's Roots N' Blues series.

A bottleneck guitarist of consummate skill, Blind Willie Johnson was a traveling evangelist who preached the gospel by playing and singing such message-heavy tunes as "I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole," and "If It Had Not Been for Jesus." But there is not a whit of squeaky-clean, Sunday-morning sweetness to Johnson's music. Overwhelmingly intense, Johnson's performances are all open wounds and raw nerves. THE COMPLETE collects everything the artist ever recorded, and makes a case for Johnson as one of the most passionate, affecting bluesmen of all time.

It is Johnson's singing that truly startles. A gruff yet finely nuanced bass, Johnson sings with a voice that could grind glass, wrenching out spiritually committed messages in a manner both primal and sublime. Johnson also displays great variety, be it the stark, understated intensity of "Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground" (where he wordlessly vocalizes in a hush over ghostly riffs) or the full-tilt prophetic perfection of "John the Revelator" (a duet with Willie Harris). THE COMPLETE BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON is an utterly essential set of the most hair-raising gospel blues ever put to tape. Be prepared.

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