Display Title: Dark Was the NightFirst Line: Dark was the night and cold the groundTune Title: MARTYRDOMAuthor: UnknownMeter: CMScripture: Luke 22:41; Luke 22:44Date: 2011Subject: Jesus | Passion; Jesus Christ | Suffering and Death. This single is easily the highest, followed by offerings from Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith a few hundred places further down. Motherless children have a hard time when the mother is dead... A harder time still when the step-mother is vengeful. View Top Rated Albums. Listen to Original Recording. Votes are used to help determine the most interesting content on RYM.
This is measured by detecting the presence of an audience in the track. Tonight I'm gonna be one happy soul. Albums/Songs that are more damaging to think of than to actually listen to Music. On which the Lord was laid; his sweat like drops of blood ran down; in agony he prayed. It begins: Dark was the night, and cold the ground. All is explained in About/FAQs... Popular Blind Willie Johnson albums. Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground) is a song by Blind Willie Johnson, released on 1993-10-26. The b-side was much more impressive. History of the song & recording.
No, in Temple, Texas. ยค The song has a peerless success story on RYM: Not even rated once before May 2007, it is going to be the oldest single to reach the Top 200 All-Time Charts (#216 at the moment). It is characterized by his slide guitar accompaniment and tenor voice, and his frequent use of a lower-register 'growl' or false bass voice. Capo to fret number None. Songs You Consider To Be Perfect Music. Cold was the ground. "Dark was the Night/Cold Was the Ground. " A measure on how likely it is the track has been recorded in front of a live audience instead of in a studio. Anyway, please solve the CAPTCHA below and you should be on your way to Songfacts.
Instead, what one hears against the backdrop of Blind Willie Johnson's aching, piercing slide guitar are Johnson's grunts and moans. Earlier, Temple, Texas had been suggested as his birthplace. ) NOTES [600 words]: The song appears in the Baptist Standard Hymnal (but not the New National Baptist Hymnal) as "Dark Was the Night" with arrangers' names listed, but no author.
In 1931, he moved to Beaumont, Texas, broke up with his wife, sang on the street again, remarried, and lived the rest of his life in the small oil town. Though his songs have been covered by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes and others, little is known about Blind Willie Johnson. I sometimes hum when i'm going about my day to day business and I sure as hell can't match Blind Willie Johnson. Overall, the 1920s singles charts are absolutely dominated by the jazz and blues artists of the era. He died in 1945 at the age of 48, his death hastened by a fire that gutted his house. Trouble Will Soon Be Over.
Cupid (Twin Version). When he was five, he told his father he wanted to be a preacher and then made a cigar box guitar for himselfHis mother died when he was young, and his father remarried soon after her hnson was not born blindAlthough it is no... read more. Blind Willie Johnson never recorded another song. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. It's so minimalistic that it becomes expansive and vast - Blind Willie could have been floating through space when he recorded this. All Artists: A. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. O. P. Q. R. S. T. U. V. W. X. Y. Lining Out Black Hymns. William T Dargan's Lining Out the Word -- subtitle "Dr Watts Hymn singing in the music of Black Americans" -- is the book to read if you want to know more about this style of hymn singing. Pick out the best and worst 5 star rated albums of the user above you... Music Polls/Games.