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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Blind Willie Johnson
Author: traditional
Label: Columbia
Year: 1928
With a pocket knife for bottleneck devise. Black interpretation of Methodist and Baptist shape note hymns like Windham. There's an example on Alan Lomax's Sounds Of The South cd box set.
Covers:
Mississippi Fred McDowell [also on Sounds Of The South]
Word [with John Medeski and the North Mississippi Allstars]
Luther Dickinson & The Sons Of Mudboy [three days after his father's death]
Influenced by Lord I Can't Stay Away by The Wiseman Sextette ('23), the same ensemble inspiring Johnson for I'm Gonna Run To The City Of Refuge (see You Better Run) as well as for his Let Your Light Shine On Me (see Shine On Me).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)