This is my cover of Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson. He was a poor blind man that was born in poverty and died in poverty but somehow managed to capture the true feeling of spirituality. This song performed by him was included in the Voyager Golden Record – The Sounds of Earth along sides the likes of Mozart. The record should it not be struck by interstellar debris will endure for a billion years perhaps even outliving humanity.

“This is more than a song. Few songs pull from such a place so deep, you gotta know that when you here it, that it is every emotion and the absence of emotion… numb desperation and sorrow, relief and content. It is what you are when you listen to it. Its not blues, not gospel, not even negro spiritual… its human, its alive” -trueblueweaver

Photography was provided by Federico Moreira under All Creative Commons.