"A singing street-corner evangelist, Blind Willie Johnson combined his emotion-charged voice with exquisite slide guitar. Ry Cooder calls his 'Dark Was The Night' the 'most transcendent piece in all of American music,' and Eric Clapton describes 'It's Nobody's Fault But Mine' as 'probably the finest slide guitar playing you'll ever hear.' A hugely influential figure in the evolution of the blues, Johnson's music reverberates through the ages in artists as diverse as The Soul Stirrers, The Staple Singers and Peter, Paul and Mary, among others." -Sony Music Entertainment Inc.