PCoE's Musical Treat #6

BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON - Trouble Soon Be Over

Although I do not feel a great deal of empathy with the religious tones of this song, the idea that the only escape from a life of grinding poverty can be found in death is something that today rings as true for millions of people world wide as it did in when originally recorded in 1927.

Texas preacher Rev W. Johnson died in 1945. After his house burnt down he found himself with no where to sleep but on a sodden mattress amongst the burnt ruins. He contracted pneumonia two weeks later and died after no hospital would treat him due to the colour of his skin.