As a songwriter, James Weldon Johnson is best known for "Life Every
Voice," which he wrote with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson.
However, during the early 1900s he was part of one of the most
popular and successful songwriting teams in America. Johnson, along
with his brother, Rosamond, and Bob Cole wrote hit songs for
musicals during the ragtime era, 1895-1910. Later, he became one of
the most prominent African-Americans in the United States before
World War II. He was a diplomat, the author of a novel (The
Autobiography of a Colored Man), poet ("God's Trombones"), Civil
Rights leader (the first black Executive Secretary of the NAACP),
an active member of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s and a
distinguished Professor at Fisk University. Most of James Weldon
Johnson's songs have not been heard for over a hundred years
because he wrote during the era of sheet music. Now, for the first
time, here is a collection of Johnson's lyrics and an extended
biographical essay on him as a songwriter. Don Cusic is Professor
of Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee and
the author of 25 books. Cusic and Mike Curb produced a double album
containing 30 of James Weldon Johnson's songs, recorded by Melinda
Doolittle, for Curb Records.
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