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| Brokenjaw Always will bow down to the power of the Faceman!!!! | posted on 07-10-2001 @ 6:14 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Nov. 00  | quote: Blind Willie Johnson-- To the ears of Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, and others, Blind Willie Johnson was one of the great country-blues musicians, an astonishing guitarist who played slide with a knife blade. Johnson himself, though, likely would have been frustrated, even angered, by such a designation. Johnson considered himself an evangelist, a musical missionary who played his songs on the streets of central Texas during the first half of the 20th century. His fiercely coarse voice and mastery of the slide guitar would've made him an arresting figure as he shouted such songs as "I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole," "Let Your Light Shine on Me," and "If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down" on the sidewalks of Marlin, Hearne, and other towns. In the five times that Johnson entered the studio for Columbia he never recorded any secular blues -- there's some doubt he even knew any -- though other musicians have since introduced his songs to much larger audiences. Cooder turned his arrangement of "Dark Was the Night -- Cold Was the Ground" into the theme from the film Paris, Texas. Led Zeppelin recorded one of many versions of his "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine." Other songs have been covered by fellow gospel artists (the Soul Stirrers, the Staple Singers), folk singers (Peter, Paul & Mary, Buffy Sainte-Marie), and others. When Johnson traveled to Atlanta in April 1930, he was one of the best-selling "race" artists on Columbia Records, though the beginning of the Great Depression had cut deeply into record sales. Earlier sessions had produced recordings that often were brilliant, ragged, bluesy tales of divine judgment and vengeance ("God Moves on the Water," for instance, about the sinking of the Titanic, and "Jesus Is Coming Soon," about the post-World War I influenza epidemic). The Atlanta session, though, was more in the white-gospel vein, with Johnson and his wife, Willie Harris, singing "Can't Nobody Hide From God," "If It Had Not Been for Jesus," and "Go to Me With That Land" in a simple call-and-response style. Others, though, possessed that earlier fire -- a stirring version of the apocalyptic "John the Revelator" and the driving "The Soul of a Man" (a song later recorded by Bruce Cockburn). On this album Dark Was The Night you can hear the original verson of Nobody's Fault But Mine . It is a great album and a great song. I have beel listening to Blind Willie for as long as I can remember. I love the old blues. Its just a great thing to be able to llisten to the music that inspired so many bands and artist's like Hendrix, Sabbath, Zepplin so on and so forth.  Telling people their desire Satan's sitting there, he's smiling Watches those flames get higher and higher Oh no, no, please God help me! This message was edited by Brokenjaw on 7-10-01 @ 6:22 PM | ||||
| twoTWO | posted on 07-10-2001 @ 7:41 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Hell ya The Beatles, Led Zeppelin , Pink Floyd I've always enjoyed a LIVE Grateful Dead Song and they are one of the best Cover Bands of all time. Bob Dylon quote:They are so under rated and dont get the radio time they deserve. Life of Agony has some increadable songs and also were a under rated band, TO bad that they are nolonger together.
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