Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945) recorded in 1927, several years before other blues pioneers like Skip James and Robert Johnson. Blind Willie's Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground is one of 27 songs selected to be on a music sampler aboard the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 and which is now somewhere in interstellar space.
This is Trouble Will Soon Be Over. The information on the video does not indicate any details, but the person playing guitar and singing is not Blind Willie Johnson. It is the original recording, synced with a 21st century film recreation designed to look like it is one hundred years old. I believe the individual portraying Johnson is actually Chris Thomas King, the talented guitarist featured in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, where he played a haunting version of Skip James' Hard Time Killing Floor Blues..
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