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Product Details

Artist : Robert Johnson
Format : Best of, Box set
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0074646491621
Label : Sony Jazz
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 1996-10-22
UPC : 074646491621

ASIN : B000002ADN

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Kindhearted Woman Blues
2. Kindhearted Woman Blues [Alternate Take]
3. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
4. Sweet Home Chicago
5. Rambling on My Mind
6. Rambling on My Mind [Alternate Take]
7. When You Got a Good Friend
8. When You Got a Good Friend [Alternate Take]
9. Come on in My Kitchen
10. Come on in My Kitchen [Alternate Take]
11. Terraplane Blues
12. Phonograph Blues
13. Phonograph Blues [Alternate Take]
14. 32-20 Blues
15. They're Red Hot
16. Dead Shrimp Blues
17. Cross Road Blues
18. Cross Road Blues [Alternate Take]
19. Walking Blues
20. Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Disc-2
1. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
2. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
3. Stones in My Passway
4. I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
5. From Four Till Late
6. Hellhound on My Trail
7. Little Queen of Spades
8. Little Queen of Spades [Alternate Take]
9. Malted Milk
10. Drunken Hearted Man
11. Drunken Hearted Man [Alternate Take]
12. Me and the Devil Blues
13. Me and the Devil Blues [Alternate Take]
14. Stop Breakin' Down Blues
15. Stop Breakin' Down Blues [Alternate Take]
16. Traveling Riverside Blues
17. Honeymoon Blues
18. Love in Vain
19. Love in Vain [Alternate Take]
20. Milkcow's Calf Blues
21. Milkcow's Calf Blues [Alternate Take]

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.com

This two-CD box contains all 41 recordings Johnson made, including 12 alternate takes, and each cut remains a classic. This set's release in 1990 caused quite a stir, selling more than 500,000 copies, and, on the basis of endorsements from Eric Clapton and Keith Richards, introduced a great number of rock fans to Delta blues. Amazingly, Johnson built his enormous legacy on the strength of just two recording sessions: the first session, in November of 1936, produced among others "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom," "Sweet Home Chicago," "Cross Road Blues," and "Walkin' Blues," making it perhaps the most influential single session in blues history. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

The Godfather of the Blues (2007-04-14)

It is truly wonderful to have the whole corpus of Johnson's work collected in one place. It is a shame that nothing was done to improve the terrible sound quality, which, given the time and technology, is understandable. With no tech in my background I would be at a loss for suggestions. Still, it seems reasonable assume that more could have been done to clean up these discs, which is why I have rated the collection at a mere 3 stars.

Best blues I have ever heard! (2004-06-19)

This is one of the first blues C.D.s I ever bought, and it is the best. I have since perchaced C.D.s by Muddy Waters, Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson and several others, and while they are all very good none of them are as good as Robert Johnson. I definitely recomend this to anyone even slightly interested in the bles.

I would like to point out that the reviewer calling himself Tony Thomas is RACIST. I have read several of his reviews and he uses the term "bleus lovers" derisively put into quotes to refer to whites. When he says real blues people he obviously is talking about blacks. These slightly hidden racist slurs and his general tone is elitist and offensive. I would have thought that amazon would be ethical enough not to post this sort of RACIST PROPAGANDA!

The Greatest Music Ever! (2004-04-27)

In ''Robert Johnson : The Complete Recordings'', you will hear the most powerful blues there is. Robert Johnson's music is more than great, it's magic, it's indefinable. I've never heard anything like that and I know I never will find anything similar. He creates a blues world of his own where everything is possible. He brings you in his visions, his fears, his joys, his hopes, his loves, his travels... Also, his guitar skills are fantastic, his emotion is truely unique and his lyrics really define the everyday life of a traveling black blues musician in the 30's and also visions (or not) he had (Me And The Devil Blues, Hell Hound On My Trail, Cross Road Blues), inspiring incredibly dark and superb lyrics of an artist who died way too young.

Most people know Robert Johnson's story, so I'm not going to write it A G A I N, but I would just like to say to people who think Robert Johnson's music sucks because 'his singing is bad, he plays acoustic, he sings stupidities and the sound quality is awful' that they prove their lack of musical culture. Robert Johnson is without a doubt an icon in blues music, and music in general. He's - to me - the greatest musician ever (whatever the time period or the style). This Complete Recordings is definitely an item you should own, but we aware that the sound quality isn't as good as modern CDs (that box set was issued in 1990, and the tracks come from 78's of the 30's), but the music inside is extremelly powerful. Also be aware that this box set, who's said to contain each Robert Johnson's takes, actually doesn't contain 'Traveling Riverside Blues (take 2), which does appear on a more recent compilation called 'I'm A Steady Rollin' Man' (who also has the 41 other tracks available here). But that's a very small complaint, since they haden't yet realized - back in 1990 - that the second take of that song was on the 1961 LP : King Of The Delta Blues Singers.

However, this item is great and is one you should have in your collection. Whatever the kind of music you listen to, you will find yourself in admiration before the legacy a certain Robert Johnson left more than sixty-five years ago...

Statistics for statistics buffs, not music (2004-04-25)

Look: There are forty-one tracks on this album, but only twenty-nine songs. How to account for the discrepancy? Well, I can't. All I can say is that someone who wants to listen to multiple takes IN A ROW of the same songs EVERY TIME he listens to an album is NOT interested in music. Next time, if we really have to have alternate takes, let's confine them to a separate disc, please. Thank you very much.

recorded in a shoe box!! (2004-04-22)

This stuff is horrible!!! The mix is all wrong and the recording sucks!!! I cant even hear the gitar!!! Get Bodge's version instead!! Get ANY-THING by Bodge instead!!!

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