The Complete Recordings (Robert Johnson album)   "NEW & FACTORY SEALED"

The Complete Recordings Compilation album by Robert Johnson Released August 28, 1990 Recorded November 1936 and June 1937 Genre Blues Length 104:53 Label Columbia Producer Don Law (original recordings),
Beryl Cohen Porter (compilation),
Frank Driggs(Reissue Producer)

Robert Johnson chronology King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II
(1970) Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
(1990)

The Complete Recordings is a compilation album by American blues musician Robert Johnson, released August 28, 1990 on Columbia Records. The album's recordings were recorded in two sessions in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas for the American Record Company (ARC) during 1936 and 1937. Most of the songs were first released on 78rpm records in 1937. The Complete Recordings contains every recording Johnson is known to have made, with the exception of an alternate take of "Travelling Riverside Blues".

The Complete Recordings peaked at number 80 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album has sold more than a million copies,[11] and won a Grammy Award in 1991 for "Best Historical Album."[12] In 1992, the Blues Foundation inducted the album into the Blues Hall of Fame.[13] It also was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2003.[14] The board selects recordings in an annual basis that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

 

 Music

Prior to his death in 1938, through the help of H. C. Speir Johnson recorded 29 songs for the American Record Company (ARC). His complete canon of recordings includes these 29 masters, plus 13 surviving alternate takes, all recorded at two ARC sessions held in San Antonio and Dallas, Texas. The Mississippi Delta—two hundred miles of fertile lowlands stretching from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south—was one of the primary locales in which the blues originated and developed.[15] He is said to have been heavily influenced by early blues artists like Skip James,[16] who was recorded in 1931, around the same time that Johnson amazed his elders with his mastery of the guitar. James's eerie, distinctive style is reflected throughout Johnson's recordings, most notably in "32-20 Blues," which he adapted from James's "22-20 Blues."

Johnson's first session in San Antonio, Texas lasted three days, on the 23rd, 26th, and 27th of November 1936, sixteen songs were recorded in the Gunter Hotel, where ARC had set up equipment to record a number of musical acts. "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" was the first song recorded. Also captured in San Antonio were "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and "Sweet Home Chicago," both of which became post-war blues standards. "Terraplane Blues," known for its metaphoric lyrics, became a regional hit and Johnson's signature song. Most of the selections were released on Vocalion 78s, but three songs and several interesting alternate takes remained unissued until they appeared on the Columbia albums. Six months later, on the 19th and 20th of June 1937, other recording sessions took place in a Dallas, Texas warehouse where, once again, ARC had set up its recording equipment to capture many different acts. This time 13 songs were recorded and 10 were released during the following year.[17]

The song "Cross Road Blues" is one of his most popular, thanks to Eric Clapton and Cream (Wheels of Fire), whose interpretation popularized the song in the late 1960s. Johnson's recordings became popular in the early '60s when Columbia Records released a collection of called King of the Delta Blues Singers. Bluesmen like Clapton and Keith Richards viewed the release as something of a blues bible,[18] considered by some to be the "King of the Delta Blues Singers"[19] The Rolling Stones recorded "Love in Vain" on their 1969 album, Let It Bleed, and "Stop Breakin' Down" on their Exile on Main St. (1972) album.

[edit] Reception and influence

While Robert Johnson's professional recording career can be measured in months, his musical legacy has survived more than 70 years. Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, two prominent Chicago bluesmen, have their roots in the Delta: both knew Robert Johnson, and were heavily influenced by him. By Johnson's emotive vocals, combined with his varied and masterful guitar playing, continue to influence blues and popular music performers to this day. In 2004, Me and Mr. Johnson is a blues album by Eric Clapton, which is a tribute to legendary bluesman Robert Johnson, reaching to number 6 on the Billboard 200 and has sold more than 563,000 copies in the United States.[20] The Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot wrote that The Complete Recordings, along with Clapton's The Layla Sessions (1990), survive as "monuments of 20th Century music that will rarely, if ever, be equaled".[21]

 Track listing

Track Song Title Notes Time 1. "Kind Hearted Woman Blues"
2:49 2. "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" (alternate take) 2:31 3. "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom"
2:56 4. "Sweet Home Chicago"
2:59 5. "Rambling on My Mind" (alternate take) 2:51 6. "Rambling on My Mind"
2:20 7. "When You Got a Good Friend"
2:37 8. "When You Got a Good Friend" (alternate take) 2:50 9. "Come On in My Kitchen" (alternate take) 2:47 10. "Come On in My Kitchen"
2:35 11. "Terraplane Blues"
3:00 12. "Phonograph Blues"
2:37 13. "Phonograph Blues" (alternate take) 2:35 14. "32-20 Blues"
2:51 15. "They're Red Hot"
2:56 16. "Dead Shrimp Blues"
2:30 17. "Cross Road Blues"
2:39 18. "Cross Road Blues" (alternate take) 2:29 19. "Walkin' Blues"
2:28 20. "Last Fair Deal Gone Down"
2:39
Track Song Title Notes Time 21. "Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)"
2:50 22. "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day"
2:34 23. "Stones in My Passway"
2:27 24. "I'm a Steady Rollin' Man"
2:35 25. "From Four Till Late"
2:23 26. "Hellhound on My Trail"
2:35 27. "Little Queen of Spades"
2:11 28. "Little Queen of Spades" (alternate take) 2:15 29. "Malted Milk"
2:17 30. "Drunken Hearted Man"
2:24 31. "Drunken Hearted Man" (alternate take) 2:19 32. "Me and the Devil Blues"
2:37 33. "Me and the Devil Blues" (alternate take) 2:29 34. "Stop Breakin' Down Blues" (alternate take) 2:16 35. "Stop Breakin' Down Blues"
2:21 36. "Traveling Riverside Blues"
2:47 37. "Honeymoon Blues"
2:16 38. "Love in Vain" (alternate take) 2:28 39. "Love in Vain"
2:19 40. "Milkcow's Calf Blues" (alternate take) 2:14 41. "Milkcow's Calf Blues"
2:20
st:    Robert Johnson
Album:    The Complete Recordings (Three Record Set)
Record Label:    Columbia
Catalog #:    0  7464  46222 - 1
Country:    USA
Genre:    Delta Blues
Cover Grade:    MINT Still Sealed  (see picture) PERFECT COPY
Vinyl Grade:    MINT Still Sealed
Format:    LP
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