His second release, "It's Nobody's Fault But Mine" and "Dark Was The Night," was reviewed nationally in Brookman magazine. This work was described as follows: "violent, tortured and abysmal shouts and groans and his inspired guitar playing in a primitive and frightening Negro religious song." Johnson died in the 1940's after his house was gutted by fire and he and his wife were forced to sleep on a bed of damp, charred newspapers. A few days later, after being refused admittance to the hospital, he died of pneumonia.