Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground / It's Nobody's Fault but Mine

by Blind Willie Johnson

Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground / It's Nobody's Fault but Mine cover art

An instrumental slide-guitar masterpiece of early American blues and gospel music. Johnson employs a haunting bottleneck slide technique intertwined with wordless, wordless moaning that deeply communicates human sorrow and spiritual endurance without lyrics. This profoundly emotive recording was famously selected by Carl Sagan to be included on the Voyager Golden Record as a representation of human expression in space.

Genres

  • Acoustic Texas Blues

Tracklist

  1. Dark Was The Night - Cold Was The Ground
  2. It's Nobody's Fault But Mine