Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings (1990) 2CD

Artist: Robert Johnson
Title Of Album: The Complete Recordings
Year Of Release: 1990
Label (Catalog#) : Columbia [467246 2]
Country: USA
Genre: Delta Blues
Quality: FLAC (*tracks + .cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 54:46+51:45
Total Size: 384mb(+3%)(covers)

The Complete Recordings is a compilation album by American Delta blues musician Robert Johnson. The 41 songs were recorded in two sessions in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas for the American Record Company (ARC) during 1936 and 1937. Most were first released on 78 rpm records in 1937. The Complete Recordings, released August 28, 1990, by Columbia Records, 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 sold more than a million copies, and won a Grammy Award in 1991 for "Best Historical Album." In 1992, the Blues Foundation inducted the album into the Blues Hall of Fame. It also was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry in 2003. Eric Clapton and Keith Richards contributed to the album liner notes with essays on Johnson's influence on their music.

Tracks:
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Disc 1
01.Kind Hearted Woman Blues - 2:49
02.Kind Hearted Woman Blues (alternate take) - 2:31
03.I Believe I'll Dust My Broom - 2:56
04.Sweet Home Chicago - 2:59
05.Rambling on My Mind - 2:51
06.Rambling on My Mind (alternate take) - 2:20
07.When You Got a Good Friend - 2:37
08.When You Got a Good Friend (alternate take) - 2:50
09.Come On in My Kitchen - 2:47
10.Come On in My Kitchen (alternate take) - 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
Disc 2
01.Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) - 2:50
02.If I Had Possession over Judgment Day - 2:34
03.Stones in My Passway - 2:27
04.I'm a Steady Rollin' Man - 2:35
05.From Four Till Late - 2:23
06.Hellhound on My Trail - 2:35
07.Little Queen of Spades - 2:11
08.Little Queen of Spades (alternate take) - 2:15
09.Malted Milk - 2:17
10.Drunken Hearted Man - 2:24
11.Drunken Hearted Man (alternate take) - 2:19
12.Me and the Devil Blues - 2:37
13.Me and the Devil Blues (alternate take) - 2:29
14.Stop Breakin' Down Blues - 2:16
15.Stop Breakin' Down Blues - (alternate take) - 2:21
16.Traveling Riverside Blues - 2:47
17.Honeymoon Blues - 2:16
18.Love in Vain - 2:28
19.Love in Vain (alternate take) - 2:19
20.Milkcow's Calf Blues - 2:14
21.Milkcow's Calf Blues (alternate take) - 2:20

Studio portrait of Robert Johnson - 1935 (Cover) © Stephen C. LaVere, 1989.
Dime-store photo of Robert Johnson - early 1930s (p. 3) © Stephen C. LaVere, 1986.

Total playing time CD1 54:46.
Total playing time CD2 51:45.

Personnel:
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Robert Johnson – acoustic guitar, vocals

All thanks to original releaser