Blind Willie Johnson
Blind Willie Johnson was a gospel blues singer and guitarist. The lyrics of his songs were usually religious, and his music drew from both the sacred and the blues traditions, characterized by his slide guitar accompaniment and tenor voice, often with a lowerregister growl, or false bass voice.
Johnson was born in Pendleton, near Temple, Texas, in 1897. When he was five, he told his father he wanted to be a preacher and then made a cigar box guitar for himself. His mother died when he was young, and his father remarried soon after her death.
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