The album Dark Was the Night: The Essential Recordings of Blind Willie Johnson is released by Blind Willie Johnson in the year 1997 .
- Let Your Light Shine on Me
- God Don't Never Change
- Lord, I Just Can't Keep from Crying
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
- Dark Was the Night (Cold Was the Ground)
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole
- Mother's Children Have a Hard Time
- Jesus Make up My Dying Bed
- If I Had My Way I'd Tear the Building Down
- Jesus Is Coming Soon
- Bye and Bye I'm Goin' to See the King
- God Moves on the Water
- You're Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond
- Praise God I'm Satisfied
- When the War Was On
- Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
- Everybody Ought to Treat a Stranger Right
- Soul of a Man
- John the Revelator
- Trouble Will Soon Be Over
- Church, I'm Fully Saved Today