Song of the Day: Following Solomon Burke and The Blind Boys of Alabama, let's take it way back to the great blues and gospel singer and bottleneck guitarist who was raised in Marlin, Texas
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Song of the Day: 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
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