The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100308   Message #2203580
Posted By: Bobert
27-Nov-07 - 08:29 PM
Thread Name: Blind Blues singers
Subject: RE: Blind Blues singers
Ummmm, just a couple corrections here...

First of all, Johnny Winter is "leaglly blind"... Have you seen the man recently??? I have and he barely sees to write his name... That, in my book is, blind... I mean, he has a raodie help him find where he is supposed to write...

Secondly, pdq... Many of the songs that you attributed to Blind Willie Johnson are actaully old hymns... I found an old hymnal in an old building I was renovatin' and "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and BUrning" was in it... It was from the 1890's... I sent it to my good friend, Jerry Rasmussen....

But there are others on that list that are traditional songs that Johnson didn't write, as well...

But nevermind that...

Like Tweed, I am happy to know Blind Mississippi Morris... He is a great harp player with tons of stuff on his resume'...

Bobert