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Music CD - Blind Willie Johnson: The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
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Music CD: The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
Artist: Blind Willie Johnson
List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $12.86
Your Save: $ 7.12 ( 36% )
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
2. Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed
3. It`s Nobody`s Fault But Mine
4. Mother`s Children Have A Hard Time
5. Dark Was The Night- Cold Was The Ground
6. If I Had My Way I`d Tear The Building Down
7. I`m Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge
8. Jesus Is Coning Soon
9. Lord I Just Can`t Keep From Crying
10. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
11. Let Your Light Shine On Me
12. God Don`t Never Change
13. Bye Bye I`m Going To See The King
14. Sweeter As The Years Roll By
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074645283524
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1993-04-27
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Makes BB King sound like Paul Simon in a pink dress aged 11.
Comment: 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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Summary: Why all the fuss??
Comment: I've been a blues fan for about 40 years. Have listened to a lot of blues over the years on vinyl, cassettes, dvds, and radio. I know we're all supposed to worship Blind Willie. It's one of the rules of being a blues fan - like having to refer to Charlie Chaplin as a genius of film comedy. But I just don't get it. Granted he does some very nice slide guitar work. But that cheese-grater-on-the-vocal-chords voice is painful to listen to! Combine that with the often unintelligible lyrics and repetitive repertoire, and you've got, for my money, a just about "unlistenable" package. Try sitting thru a back-to-back listening session of these two CD's. You'll be screaming for "moycy"!! I know NASA sent Blind Willie's music out into space. Just wish it had been my CD set that they put on the Voyager.
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Summary: As good as it gets
Comment: People argue over whether or not this can be called "blues" or "sprirtual" music. That doesn't matter. It is the finest music i've ever heard.
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Summary: great
Comment: Here we have somebody on a different path, but on a similar level to Robert Johnson or Skip James. An important link in the chain, and these recordings do him justice. Not an easy listen, given his harsh, demanding, insistent voice, and hard not to feel furious at how he was treated, how he lived his life, and died. The tale of how he was blinded, as a child, by his stepmother throwing lye in his eyes when he saw her with another man is from a Greek tragedy. Elemental, it passes a shiver up your spine
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Summary: Incredible down-home blues
Comment: Being from the South, I love to hear the songs I used to hear as a child growing up in Tennessee. This is a must-buy!
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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