Tom Waits On Blind Willie Johnson Tribute

The tribute album God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson will feature two songs by Tom Waits. Other artists paying tribute to the influential gospel bluesman include Lucinda Williams, Sinead O’Connor, Maria McKee and Rickie Lee Jones. The album is released next Friday (26) by Alligator.
Waits contributes two songs that Johnson recorded in 1930, ‘The Soul of a Man’ and ‘John The Revelator. There are also songs by Cowboy Junkies, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Luther Dickinson featuring the Rising Star Fife and Drum Band and Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi.
The album has been produced by Jeffrey Gaskill, who oversaw the 2003 multi-artist release Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan, which featured such artists as Aaron Neville, Sounds of Blackness, Mighty Clouds of Joy and the Rance Allen Group.

