As a soundtrack, to help us feel what we really should be feeling, I nominate Blind Willie Johnson’s 1927 rendition of “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground.” Johnson is playing his slide ...

But there’s also an odd little tune on the disc, recorded in 1927 by a Texan preacher and street-corner blues singer, Blind Willie Johnson. “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground”, adapted ...

Willie Johnson was just 7 years old when his enraged stepmother tossed a pan of lye in his face. It was on that day in 1904 that he became known as Blind Willie ... Was the Ground)" was selected ...