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Blues you ough’ta know with Big Charlie: A Man of the Cloth, Cut from the Blues

  • 02/22/2011
  • by bigcharliedbrs
  • · Uncategorized

Blind Willie Johnson

Click on Willie to read more about him

The Blues has taken on many forms throughout history, in the case of young Willie Johnson the blues came through the word of the good Lord.  From age four Willie told his family he would be a preacher.  Johnson and his dad built a guitar out of a cigar box and Willie learned how to play using a pocket knife as a slide.

Blind Willie Johnson played and sang his unique versions of favorite hymns and spirituals for the remainder of his life.  Until his death in 1945, Willie traveled the south from street corner to backyard spreading his Gospel.

 

Willie frequented New Orleans, playing and preaching on the corners of the French Quarter. legend has it he was arrested once for “starting a riot” outside the courthouse with a powerful rendition of the song ‘If i Had My Way I’d Tear This Building Down’.

If you’ve already heard of Blind Willie Johnson, that’s probably due to the fact that two of the greatest recording artists of all time covered a song first recorded by Willie. Dylan and Led Zeppelin both recorded powerful versions of the the song ‘In My Time of Dying’ which is a slightly altered version of Blind Willie’s ‘Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed‘ 

 

Check it out: Zeppelin and Dylan’s version below

– Big Charlie
If you think you know some blues I ough’ta know E-mail me at BigCharlieSkinner@Gmail.Com

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