09-16-2010, 02:19 AM
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#2918 (permalink)
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Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
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"Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground"[note 1] is a gospel-blues song written and performed by American musician Blind Willie Johnson and recorded probably in 1927. The song is primarily an instrumental featuring Johnson's self-taught bottleneck slide guitar and picking style accompanied by his vocalizations of humming and moaning. It has the distinction of being one of 27 samples of music included on the Voyager Golden Record, launched into space in 1977 to represent the diversity of life on Earth. "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" was chosen as the human expression of loneliness.[1][2]
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Kronos Quartet cover (how I found out about the song in the first place):
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
― Terence McKenna
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