The Complete Recordings
 | Sony, 1996, Audio CD Customer Rating: 130 reviews Recommend |
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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
Disc 1Disc 2
- Kindhearted Woman Blues
- Kindhearted Woman Blues
- I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Rambling on My Mind
- Rambling on My Mind
- When You Got a Good Friend
- When You Got a Good Friend
- Come on in My Kitchen
- Come on in My Kitchen
- Terraplane Blues
- Phonograph Blues
- Phonograph Blues
- 32-20 Blues
- They're Red Hot
- Dead Shrimp Blues
- Cross Road Blues
- Cross Road Blues
- Walking Blues
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down
- Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
- If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
- Stones in My Passway
- I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
- From Four Till Late
- Hellhound on My Trail
- Little Queen of Spades
- Little Queen of Spades
- Malted Milk
- Drunken Hearted Man
- Drunken Hearted Man
- Me and the Devil Blues
- Me and the Devil Blues
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues
- Traveling Riverside Blues
- Honeymoon Blues
- Love in Vain
- Love in Vain
- Milkcow's Calf Blues
- Milkcow's Calf Blues
Title: The Complete Recordings
Sales Rank: 2758 in Music
Artist: Robert Johnson
Label: Sony, 1996-10-08, Audio CD, 2 Discs
Format: Box set
Package Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 1 inches, 0.3 pounds
- An absolutely essential purchase.
- Almost exactly seventy years ago, a man who was then known as Robert Johnson passed away. He was poisoned, presumably by a houseman/barkeep whose wife had been flirting with him on an August Evening. Around the same time, a king pin of the then small, homely music industry sent out a middle man to find Johnson, in hopes of striking a record deal. It took… More reviews
- It's Great but...
- I bought a single CD version of this same material (all the songs) for $9 at the local mall. Look around for better deals. More reviews
- Nice Tunes
- I deducted one star because the layout is all wrong--it's annoying that they didn't put the alternate takes on a seperate CD.
I took another star off because I really don't feel Johnson's music lives up to the hype. His influence over Rock and Roll is huge, but it's worth keeping in mind that in the Blues arena, he was… More reviews
- Encyclopedic catalog not for casual listeners
- 3 1/2
There is no mistake when people speak of this man's influence on blues. Sadly his shadow has all but engulfed the frustrating confines around musical progressions he helped pioneer, and present them with a more natural and innovative grace then the next half plus century to follow. This essential collection for purists does contain enough… More reviews
- It's the only Robert Johnson album you'll ever need.
- The story of Robert Johnson is that he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the talent at playing blues. I personally don't believe the story because he really put his soul into the music, and it's very obvious. Maybe his deal with the devil was that the devil would take his soul when he died. Whether… More reviews
