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    Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer, guitarist and evangelist. His landmark recordings completed...
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  • influential to blues performers". American gospel-blues musician Blind Willie Johnson recorded "John the Revelator" in 1930. Subsequently, a variety of...
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  • It's Nobody's Fault but Mine (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    song first recorded by gospel blues artist Blind Willie Johnson in 1927. It is a solo performance with Johnson singing and playing slide guitar. The song...
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  • Complete Blind Willie Johnson is a compilation album of all the known recordings by American gospel blues singer-guitarist Blind Willie Johnson. As part...
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    Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    performed by American musician Blind Willie Johnson and recorded in 1927. The song is primarily an instrumental featuring Johnson's self-taught bottleneck slide...
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  • In My Time of Dying (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    My Dying Bed" or a variation thereof) is a gospel music song by Blind Willie Johnson. The title line, closing each stanza of the song, refers to a deathbed...
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  • Mother's Children Have a Hard Time (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    song recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927. It is a solo performance, with Johnson singing and playing an acoustic slide guitar. Johnson recorded the song...
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  • musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. The film is narrated by Laurence Fishburne in character as Blind Willie Johnson, and features performances...
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  • "Blind Willie" may refer to: Blind Willie Dunn, a pseudonym of American Jazz guitarist, Eddie Lang (1902–1933) Blind Willie Johnson (1897–1945), a gospel...
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  • Willie Johnson may refer to: Willie Johnson (guitarist) (1923–1995), guitarist for Howlin' Wolf Blind Willie Johnson (1897–1945), American blues and gospel...
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    Quartet), and Stravinsky. The disc also includes music by Guan Pinghu, Blind Willie Johnson, Chuck Berry, Kesarbai Kerkar, Valya Balkanska, and electronic composer...
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  • is a list of all 30 songs recorded by the gospel blues musician Blind Willie Johnson (1897–1945), arranged both in alphabetical order by title and in...
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    Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson, a tribute album recorded in honor of gospel musician Blind Willie Johnson. The Blind Boys performed the song...
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  • Soul of a Man (song) (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    Blind Willie Johnson in 1930. As with most of Johnson's songs, it deals with a spiritual theme within a blues musical framework. Accompanying Johnson...
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  • American Epic: The Best of Blind Willie Johnson is a compilation album released to accompany the award-winning American Epic documentary film series. It...
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  • You'll Need Somebody on Your Bond (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    is attributed to both tradition and to gospel blues musician Blind Willie Johnson. Johnson first recorded the song in December 1930, although Delta blues...
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    Willie Johnson (March 4, 1923 – February 26, 1995) was an American electric blues guitarist. He is best known as the principal guitarist in Howlin' Wolf's...
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    performed the Blind Willie Johnson song "Let Your Light Shine On Me" on the tribute album God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson. In 2013...
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  • Let Your Light Shine on Me (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    by The Wiseman Quartet in 1923, by Ernest Phipps in 1928, and by Blind Willie Johnson in 1929. The song itself is also known as "Shine On Me", "Let It...
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  • of Blind Willie Johnson (Alligator Records) earned Grammy Award nominations for Best Roots Gospel Album and Best American Roots Performance for Blind Boys...
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    Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was a Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He played with a...
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    identifies Tampa Red and Blind Willie Johnson as "developing the most distinctive styles in the recorded idom" of the time. He said: Johnson was the first such...
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  • Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    [citation needed] "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" (Blind Willie Johnson version) Blind Willie Johnson's 1928 recording of the song Problems playing this...
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  • Samson and Delilah (traditional song) (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    My Way I'd Tear the Building Down"/"Oh Lord If I Had My Way" by Blind Willie Johnson in 1927. The song has since been performed by a wide variety of artists...
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  • and songwriter. She has been influenced by Skip James, Robert Johnson, Blind Willie Johnson, Alanis Morissette and Rory Block. Vane has released two albums...
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  • Testament. John the Revelator may also refer to: "John the Revelator" (Blind Willie Johnson song), a 1930 traditional American folk song "John the Revelator...
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  • film explores the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Directed by Richard Pearce, this episode focuses...
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  • Edition. Heather Hutchison – pop singer Blind Lemon Jefferson – "Father of the Texas Blues". Blind Willie Johnson – Slide guitarist who's been termed "influential"...
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  • God Moves on the Water (category Blind Willie Johnson songs)
    God Moves on the Water is a gospel blues song recorded by Blind Willie Johnson in 1929 and released on a 78 rpm record by Columbia Records. The song describes...
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  • "Blues in the Night" Dark Was the Night: A Tribute to the Music of Blind Willie Johnson (2004) – "God Moves on the Water" Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads...
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