WHERE THE HOKEY POKEY "IS" WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

Blind Willie Johnson

John the Revelator

Saturday Night Blues, Sunday Morning Redemption, & Sunday Under Covers, all in one shot. Not bad, huh?
about 1 year ago
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A song most often associated with Son House, John The Revalator is in fact as old as the mississippi mud. Accounts of "field hands" (slaves) singing versions of this predate the civil war by 5o yrs. Blind Willie Johnson, unlike so many of the early blues great never left the sanctified music of the church. With his gruff world weary voice his gospel music was gritty, earthy & real.

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