Blind Willie Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists
Released: Jan 25, 2005
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Released: Jan 25, 2005
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There is only a slight difference between a street-corner blues singer and a sanctified street singer, since both need to hold a crowd and make a few bucks (no matter what they do with the money...
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Soul of a Man - SNAPPER
Released: Mar 9, 2004
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Released: Mar 9, 2004
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Blind Willie Johnson wasn't a blues singer in the generally accepted sense. He was really a singing preacher with a killer slide guitar style and a guttural voice that indicated clearly that he...
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The Soul of a Man - UNIVERSE
Released: Nov 18, 2003
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Released: Nov 18, 2003
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Perhaps the greatest of all slide players (far more inventive even than Elmore James), and with the kind of voice that could be heard on Judgment Day, Blind Willie Johnson wasn't a blues musician,...
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Dark Was the Night - COLUMBIA/LEGACY
Released: Jun 30, 1998
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Released: Jun 30, 1998
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Even in the blues, a style capable of wrenching unexplainable emotions from its audience, Blind Willie Johnson has few equals. With a voice capable of alternating effortlessly between sublime,...
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The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
Released: Apr 27, 1993
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Released: Apr 27, 1993
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If you've never heard Blind Willie Johnson, you are in for one of the great, bone-chilling treats in music. Johnson played slide guitar, and sang in a rasping, false bass that could freeze the...
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Praise God I'm Satisfied
Released: 1989
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Released: 1989
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Yazoo's Praise God I'm Satisfied is an excellent collection of 14 tracks Blind Willie Johnson recorded in the '30s, including such numbers as "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed," "Praise God I'm...
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