We began the week with Charles Mingus's Moanin', we end it with a song that needs no lyrics - a moaning blues number from 1927 of extraordinary beauty that expresses the pain and sorrow of centuries of black and African-American history, slavery, prejudice and poverty. If yesterday's Louis Jordan number is influential, Johnson's voice and slide guitar sound is even more so. It is one of the tracks on the Voyager Golden Record, launched into space in 1977 to represent not only the diversity of our Earth's culture, but also, as Carl Sagan said, what brings humans together.
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