Blind Willie Johnson Blues painting
Original price was: $200.00.$185.00Current price is: $185.00.
1 in stock
Blind Willie Johnson Blues Folk Art painting by Grego
This Blues Folk art painting is 13.5 inches by 22 inches, Acrylic on a vintage wooden cabinet door, ready to hang. Shop for Blues folk art paintings at the Mojohand gallery often, as new art is added weekly!
Ships in the Continental USA ONLY – Hawaii and Alaska, email me for a quote
Hand painted by Grego Anderson – “America’s favorite Blues folk artist”
Owner and only employee at Mojohand.com – the one man Blues Boutique
Free shipping for all orders over $35 in the USA
©Mojohand.com – Everything Blues™
What one of my customers had to say:
“I’ve been a fan since way back in the 90’s and the “art by grego” website, it’s amazing what you have done in 20 years” – Lori Jo. – Phoenix AZ
In the dusty heart of Texas, where the blues runs as deep as the Brazos River, one name still echoes through the fields and the churches alike — Blind Willie Johnson, the street-corner evangelist whose voice could shake both heaven and earth.
Born near Brenham, Texas, in 1897, Johnson lost his sight before his tenth birthday — some say through a tragic accident, others whisper it was fate’s way of redirecting him toward the divine. What he lost in vision, he gained in vision of another kind: a spiritual sight that poured out through his gravel-throated moans and the haunting slide of his guitar.
Armed with nothing more than a battered steel-string guitar and a voice like thunder on Judgment Day, Johnson began preaching and singing on the streets of Texas towns. He was not a bluesman in the juke-joint sense — his mission was salvation. But his records, cut between 1927 and 1930 for Columbia, told of pain, perseverance, and faith with such raw power that even sinners took notice.
Songs like “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” and “God Moves on the Water” carried the deep hum of eternity. The former, wordless and mournful, would one day travel beyond the stars — chosen for the Voyager Golden Record in 1977, so that beings from other worlds might hear the sound of Earth’s soul.
Yet Blind Willie’s earthly life was marked by hardship. When the Great Depression silenced the recording studios, he returned to the streets, singing for coins and souls. In 1945, a house fire in Beaumont left him without shelter; denied hospital care, he passed away soon after, likely of pneumonia.
Today, his grave may be unmarked, but his legacy is carved deep in the bedrock of American music. Every gospel singer, every slide guitarist, every bluesman who moans into the dark — they all echo Blind Willie’s cry.
“The blues ain’t nothing but a good man feelin’ bad,” they say. But in Blind Willie Johnson’s hands, the blues became a prayer.
Blind Willie Johnson Blues painting
Original price was: $200.00.$185.00Current price is: $185.00.
1 in stock
Blind Willie Johnson Blues Folk Art painting by Grego
This Blues Folk art painting is 13.5 inches by 22 inches, Acrylic on a vintage wooden cabinet door, ready to hang. Shop for Blues folk art paintings at the Mojohand gallery often, as new art is added weekly!
Ships in the Continental USA ONLY – Hawaii and Alaska, email me for a quote
Hand painted by Grego Anderson – “America’s favorite Blues folk artist”
Owner and only employee at Mojohand.com – the one man Blues Boutique
Free shipping for all orders over $35 in the USA
©Mojohand.com – Everything Blues™
What one of my customers had to say:
“I’ve been a fan since way back in the 90’s and the “art by grego” website, it’s amazing what you have done in 20 years” – Lori Jo. – Phoenix AZ
In the dusty heart of Texas, where the blues runs as deep as the Brazos River, one name still echoes through the fields and the churches alike — Blind Willie Johnson, the street-corner evangelist whose voice could shake both heaven and earth.
Born near Brenham, Texas, in 1897, Johnson lost his sight before his tenth birthday — some say through a tragic accident, others whisper it was fate’s way of redirecting him toward the divine. What he lost in vision, he gained in vision of another kind: a spiritual sight that poured out through his gravel-throated moans and the haunting slide of his guitar.
Armed with nothing more than a battered steel-string guitar and a voice like thunder on Judgment Day, Johnson began preaching and singing on the streets of Texas towns. He was not a bluesman in the juke-joint sense — his mission was salvation. But his records, cut between 1927 and 1930 for Columbia, told of pain, perseverance, and faith with such raw power that even sinners took notice.
Songs like “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground” and “God Moves on the Water” carried the deep hum of eternity. The former, wordless and mournful, would one day travel beyond the stars — chosen for the Voyager Golden Record in 1977, so that beings from other worlds might hear the sound of Earth’s soul.
Yet Blind Willie’s earthly life was marked by hardship. When the Great Depression silenced the recording studios, he returned to the streets, singing for coins and souls. In 1945, a house fire in Beaumont left him without shelter; denied hospital care, he passed away soon after, likely of pneumonia.
Today, his grave may be unmarked, but his legacy is carved deep in the bedrock of American music. Every gospel singer, every slide guitarist, every bluesman who moans into the dark — they all echo Blind Willie’s cry.
“The blues ain’t nothing but a good man feelin’ bad,” they say. But in Blind Willie Johnson’s hands, the blues became a prayer.
