Willie Johnson
Sign in to saveAmerican musician (1923–1995)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923-03-04
- Died
- 1995-02-26
- Works
- 16
Top works
- Master's Purpose
- Be Amazing
- 100 Questons for the Black Woman, Man and Child
- Paradise in the Hood
- It's Never Too Late
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,376
- Total plays
- 16,357
Tags
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"Blind" Willie Johnson (January 22, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American singer and guitarist, whose music straddled the border between blues and spirituals. While the lyrics of all of his songs were religious, his music drew from both sacred and blues traditions. His music is distinguished by his powerful bass thumb-picking and gravelly false-bass voice, with occasional use of a tenor voice. Life Blind Willie Johnson, according to his death certificate <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data
· 2016 · cited 31,374x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 20,850x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,495x
- Optical Constants of the Noble Metals
· 1972 · cited 18,021x
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,396x
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Key dates
- Born
- 4 March 1923
- Died
- 26 February 1995
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Johnson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Senatobia
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- electric blues
- Instrument
- guitar
- Record label
- Sun Records