DARK WAS THE NIGHT, COLD WAS THE GROUND : BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON | Alice at O MY SOUL

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In 2003, John Clarke in The Times wrote that “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” was “the most intense and startling blues record ever made”. Francis Davis, author of The History of the Blues concurs, writing “In terms of its intensity alone—its spiritual ache—there is nothing else from the period to compare to Johnson’s ‘Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground’, on which his guitar takes the part of a preacher and his wordless voice the part of a rapt congregation.”

Interestingly Alice over at reads 1981 (O MY Soul) pulls an interesting one here and turns Blues historian with this Blind Willie Johnson track . . . . . . . worth paying attention to but not content with making her own really interesting music and sharing ‘new' sounds and singers here she shows us the breadth of her interest in this blues classic!