Tom Waits, Derek Trucks, Sinead O’Conner, Others To Record Kickstarter Funded Blind Willie Johnson Album

A Kickstarter to fund a tribute album to Blind Wille Johnson launched yesterday. Tom Waits, Sinead O’Connor, Lucinda Williams, Luther Dickinson, Cowboy Junkies, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, Blind Boys of Alabama and Rickie Lee Jones have agreed to record songs for the project, which as of Wednesday morning had pledghes total $16,000 of a $125,000 goal.

Here is the launch video:

Bruce Houghton on 10/16/2013 in D.I.Y. | Permalink | Comments (6)

Tags: Cowboy Junkies, Derek Trucks, Lucinda Williams, Luther Dickinson, Rickie Lee Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, Susan Tedeschi, Tom Waits

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Perhaps a link to Kickstarter would help speed things along. I’ll be checking my e-mail for something from them. It would be an honer to be a part of this one.

OK i just found the link to Kickstarter; It’s with the link for Blind Willie Johnson. Very cool thanks!

Plz correct spelling of Sinead O’Connor’s name in headline.

I agree

this is great! I want to donate! how do you do this?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blindwilliejohnson/help-produce-the-songs-of-blind-willie-johnson

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