Blind Willie Johnson’s legacy will continue to live on in a new collection come Feb. 26. Alligator Records will release a tribute album to the gospel blues legend, God Don’t Never Change: The ...

Blind Willie Johnson left behind a mere 30 songs and a towering legacy that empowered disciples ranging from Pops Staples and Bob Dylan to Led Zeppelin and Ry Cooder. Yet he is an often overlooked … ...

Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O’Connor, and more have contributed new covers to God Don’t Never Change: The Songs Of Blind Willie Johnson, a tribute album to the 1920s blues singer. The ...

Musicians Pay Tribute To Blind Willie Johnson On 'God Don't Never Change' A range of musicians, including Tom Waits and Sinéad O'Connor, cover gospel-blues performer Johnson on a new tribute album.

In February, Alligator Records is resurrecting the music of gospel/blues pioneer Blind Willie Johnson with the power of several notable artists, including Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Sinéad O ...

God Don’t Never Change is an 11-song ode to the great blues howler and gospel progenitor Blind Willie Johnson, including contributions from Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, and more.

Blind Willie Johnson left behind a mere 30 songs and a towering legacy that empowered disciples ranging from Pops Staples and Bob Dylan to Led Zeppelin and Ry Cooder. Yet he is an often overlooked ...

Elon Green on the new tribute album “God Don't Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson,” featuring Sinéad O’Connor and others.

Jeffrey Gaskill is a Grammy-nominated executive music producer with a passion for the blues, and he has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a tribute album for Blind Willie Johnson.

As to why Blind Willie hasn’t been remembered in the same way that Robert Johnson has, Ford has a two-fold answer: “Eric Clapton came out and did Robert’s songs and really stated that he was ...

The growling, gravel-voiced Johnson cut “John the Revelator,” a song about the author of the Book of Revelation in the Bible, during his final recording session for Columbia in Atlanta in 1930.

Share full article. 0. ... 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, ...