Losing his sight, young Willie Johnson (1897-1945) was saved from despair by music, and with his powerful voice and the wailing slide guitar, he made a name for himself performing on street corners all over Texas. When Voyager I was launched in 1977, Willie's song "Dark Was the Night" made the trip, too, housed on the Golden Record inside the spacecraft. In this rather poetic biography, Gary Golio introduces readers 4 to 8 to one of the greatest bluesmen of all, and E.B. Lewis's gorgeous watercolors powerfully capture early-20th-century America.