It´s Nobody Fault But Mine/Dark Was the Night RSD (829357108012)

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It´s Nobody Fault But Mine/Dark Was the Night RSD

Columbia

829357108012

LPS 159407

829357108012

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Blind Willie Johnson was the greatest and most popular recorded guitar evangelist who influenced generations of musicians. His unique, intense, emotional and haunting gruff voice—coupled with some of the finest slide-guitar of any of his peers—firmly established Johnson’s status as one of the premier gospel-blues artists of all time. Between 1927 and 1930, Johnson recorded 30 powerful and timeless landmark songs for Columbia Records in five sessions in Dallas, New Orleans, and Atlanta, generating strong sales and national fame.

In 1977, “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” was one of 27 samples of music included on the Voyager Golden Record selected to represent the human experience on Earth for NASA’s Voyager spacecraft’s probe to other life forms in the universe. In 2010, the song was also selected by the Library of Congress as an addition to the National Recording Registry which selects recordings that are deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” In 2011, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The list of artists covering Johnson’s repertoire include Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, John Fahey, The White Stripes, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and countless others. His home in Beaumont, Texas was destroyed by fire in 1945. With nowhere else to go he continued to live in the ruins of his house. Johnson contracted malarial fever due to exposure and died on September 18, 1945.