Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There

~ Recording by Blind Willie Johnson

Annotation

The woman accompanying Johnson is yet unknown.
It was believed to be his firs wife Willie B. Harris but proven wrong. Biographers now thinks it could be one of his later wives.

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleCountry/Date
Official
1.15Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:58Blind Willie JohnsonSweeter as the Years Go By
  • 1991-12-11 US
2.4Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:58Blind Willie JohnsonThe Complete Blind Willie Johnson
1.17Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:59Blind Willie JohnsonDark Was the Night: The Essential Recordings of Blind Willie Johnson
  • 1995-10-17 GB
1.19Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:57Blind Willie JohnsonDark Was the Night
4.8Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:59Blind Willie JohnsonGoodbye, Babylon
  • 2003-10-27 US
1.8Take Your Burden to the Lord2:59Blind Willie JohnsonKing of the Guitar Evangelists
3.14Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:58Blind Willie JohnsonBlind Willie Johnson and the Guitar Evangelists
  • 2005-01-25 US
1.11Take Your Burden to the Lord2:59Blind Willie JohnsonDark Was the Night
  • 2010-03-15 XW
1.4Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:56Blind Willie JohnsonComplete Recorded Titles, Volume 2: 11th December 1929 to 20th April 1930
1.4Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:53Blind Willie JohnsonBlind Willie Johnson, Vol. 2 (1929-1930)
  • 2014-02-03 XW
2.4Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There2:58Blind Willie JohnsonThe Complete Blind Willie Johnson

Relationships

recorded in:New Orleans, Louisiana, United States (on 1929-12-11)
guitar:Blind Willie Johnson (on 1929-12-11)
vocals:[unknown] (on 1929-12-11)
Blind Willie Johnson (on 1929-12-11)
recording of:Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There (on 1929-12-11)

Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There

arranger:Blind Willie Johnson
arrangement of:Leave It There