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- Record Label: Alligator Records
- Release Date: Feb 26, 2016
- Summary: The tribute album to blues singer Blind Willie Johnson features such artists as the Blind Boys of Alabama, Rickie Lee Jones and the Cowboy Junkies, Maria McKee, Sinead O’Connor, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, Tom Waits, and Lucinda Williams.
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- Record Label: Alligator Records
- Genre(s): Blues, Pop/Rock
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Feb 29, 2016This is the best Americana album of the year. It reminds us all the way out here in 2016 that Blind Willie Johnson’s songs are still alive, and there is no better way to pay tribute to one of the finest American artists who ever lived.
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Mar 22, 2016Thanks to this well-constructed compilation CD (including a very informative booklet), his legacy will be exposed to a new generation of musicians, and music fans.
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Apr 1, 2016The album, which was funded by producer Jeffrey Gaskill through Kickstarter, is full of treats; and Johnson deserves 21st-century acknowledgement.
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Feb 29, 2016An understandable reverence prevails over most of these primarily straight-forward interpretations, but a handful dig a level deeper.
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Mar 8, 2016Like its predecessor, God Don't Never Change reflects the enduring, mercurial influence of the artist, but also the weight the Christian gospel imposes on questions of the human condition as it encounters suffering, joy, mercy, loneliness, death, and resurrection.
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Feb 29, 2016Williams finds the sweet spot between the blues and the gospel that Johnson so amazingly brought to his music. The other contributions showcase the everlasting value of Johnson’s material.
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Feb 29, 2016A collection that leaves so much on the table in terms of possibility. Many of these selections are too on-the-nose, kowtowing to Johnson’s legacy as though kneeling before his corpse at a wake.