| The Complete Blind Willie Johnson |  | Artist: Blind Willie Johnson
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 42160
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.9
MPN: 52835
UPC: 074645283524
EAN: 0074645283524
ASIN: B0000028QB
Release Date: April 27, 1993
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole | | • | Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed | | • | Nobody's Fault But Mine | | • | Mother's Children Have a Hard Time | | • | Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground) | | • | If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down | | • | I'm Gonna Run to the City of Refuge | | • | Jesus Is Coming Soon | | • | Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Crying | | • | Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning | | • | Let Your Light Shine on Me - Blind Willie Johnson, Traditional | | • | God Don't Never Change | | • | Bye and Bye I'm Goin' to See the King | | • | Sweeter as the Years Roll By |
Disc 2
| • | You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond | | • | When the War Was On | | • | Praise God I'm Satisfied | | • | Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There - Blind Willie Johnson, Tindley, Charles Al | | • | Take Your Stand | | • | God Moves on the Water | | • | Can't Nobody Hide from God | | • | If It Had Not Been for Jesus | | • | Go with Me to That Land - Blind Willie Johnson, | | • | The Rain Don't Fall on Me | | • | Trouble Will Soon Be Over | | • | The Soul of a Man | | • | Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right | | • | Church, I'm Fully Saved Today | | • | John the Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson, Traditional | | • | You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond |
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In the history of recorded blues and spirituals, there is no greater singer and songwriter than Blind Willie Johnson. With a vocal delivery ranging from raw rage to tenderness wedded to his talking guitar, Blind Willie's recordings are as powerful today as when he made them, from 1927 to 1930. Listen to monuments "Motherless Children Have a Hard Time," "I Just Can't Keep from Crying," "It's Nobody's Fault but Mine," and the otherworldly "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," and try to find equally visceral conviction any other place or time. His "If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down" which got him arrested when Blind Willie unknowingly sang it in front of a U.S. government building in Dallas, became a '60s icon. Years later, he caught pneumonia, but when treatment was sought, he was told the hospital did not treat blind people, so he returned home and died. --Alan Greenberg
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 The complete blind willie johnson album January 6, 2009
K. E. Meek (Minnesota, USA)
I very much like this collection. Blind Willie sings with courage & conviction, plus the knowledge that came from someone who lived a life the way he did. The album contains "chearful" songs about WWI, the Titanic, and the 1918 Flu Epidemic; major events in his time. Soul of a Man is my favorite.
A blind, black man living in the south at that time did not have an easy life. Included with the album is a narrative of the researcher who interviewed Willie Johnson's widow in the 1950's, which states that she had told the researcher that Mr. Johnson wasn't admitted to the hospital before he died of pnemonia in 1945 because he was "blind". I think she was being polite to the young, educated, man who was interviewing her -- most likely it's because he was "black". I like to think the world has changed for the better since then.
The recording technology was crude in the late 1920's and 1930 when these songs were recorded. The worst of the crackling from the records has been removed, but still retains the flavor of looking back in time.
Four and a Half Stars September 30, 2008
squid (Virginia, USA)
A passionate voice that sounds like sandpaper and glass combine with nimble slide guitar make Blind Willie Johnson one of the greatest of all bluesmen. The review below, if anything, is too meek--Blind Willie Johnson's music blows the pants off anything Robert Johnson ever did. The only reason I can think Robert gets so much attention is because Eric Clapton never listened to real blues.
The only negative I can think of is that he duets with a female singer on some of the tracks, and it detracts from the overall performance. The man was a phenomenal singer, why ruin it by throwing in another voice?
Just what I needed! August 30, 2008
Lisa J. Danenberg
I really like listening to the old style rhythm and blues and this CD really delivers!
 Yes, The Soul of A Man June 18, 2008
Alfred Johnson (boston, ma)
A tradition developed early, and I am not sure how, but it was very early in the 1900's of blind black men with musical ability (and probably some with none) going to the small town Southern street and singing for their dinner, so to speak. I, for one, am glad that they did because an inordinate part of early blues music would be missing without their collective contributions. Here we start our tribute with Blind Willie Johnson; this is Reverend Blind Willie Johnson, by the way. What makes Reverend Johnson a shade bit different from other blues singers of the period, with the partial exception of Skip James, is that the vast bulk of his music is religious in orientation unlike the more traditional moaning and groaning about work, women and whiskey.
For those who saw part of Martin Scorcese's PBS Blues Project a few years back you might remember that Blind Willie (along with Skip James) was highlighted in Wim Wender's section. You might also know then that Johnson's Soul of A Man is traveling the universe as a selection of one of humankind's musical expressions. Take that and If You Had A Friend In Jesus with female accompaniment and you are at the height of Blind Willie's talent. As for the rest you will have to listen for yourself.
Makes BB King sound like Paul Simon in a pink dress aged 11. April 10, 2008
Pen Name and That A
So I heard about BWJ on The West Wing and I dissed BB King... Is that all it takes to make me ignorant?
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