JOHNSON ROBERT King of the Delta and Pre-War Country Blues

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This Fine Album Contains A Wonderful 8-Page Booklet With Detailed Biographical Notes, Copies Of The Only 2 Photographs Of Robert Johnson In Existence And Full Listings Of All 29 Tracks - His Total Recorded Output. This Amazing Disc Plays For An Incredible 75 Minutes 29 Seconds. All Compositions Are Written And Performed By Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson was, and remains to this day, the most legendary artiste in the whole history of the blues. The only sound mementos from his career consist of twenty-nine songs recorded from 1936 to 1937. The themes of his blues are love, women, unhappiness, friendship, alienation and pain; he anticipated the existential drama of end-of-century man. Legend has it that Robert Johnson was a witch doctor, linked to devilish creatures, and his untimely death has a plethora of differing versions. He was definitely a key artiste in future musical developments and many modern-day musicians such as Eric Clapton, The Rollong Stones, Led Zeppelin and Sting. These and many others have been inspired by his work and have covered his compositions. (1911). Born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, on 8th May, to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson (another source gives his date of birth as 1914), Johnson spent his early years in the area around Memphis. At about the age of seven, he learnt to play the mouth-organ. Having left his stepmother, he settled in Robinsonville and started to work in the fields, still at a very young age. At fifteen he enrolled in the Indian Creek School but he soon realised that he was not cut out to study. He left full-time leave education and took up the guitar. (1930-32). This was the period in which Robert performed as a traveling musician. He played all over, from Itta Bena to Helena, from Memphis to St.Louis. (1935). His next move was to Hughes, Arkansas, from whence he went on a number of tours alongside Johnny Shines. They played several in states, Tennessee, Missouri, Texas, Kentucky and Illinois amongst them. (1936). On 23rd November, Robert Johnson was brought to the recording studio by Eric Oertle, a local talent scout who, in two sessions, made him record sixteen numbers; Rambling On My Mind, Cross Road Blues, I Believe I'll Dust My Broom , and several others. (1937). Between the 19th and 20th of June, Robert returned to the studio to record a further thirteen numbers which included Traveling Riverside Blues and Little Queen Of Spades. He next joined up with David Honeyboy Edwards and continued his career as a traveling musician. (1938). On 16th August, in Greenwood, Robert's career was tragically cut short when he was murdered.

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Track Listings

1 Terraplane Blues
2 Me And The Devil Blues
3 Sweet Home Chicago
4 Walkin' Blues
5 Cross Road Blues
6 Come On In My Kitchen
7 Hellhound On My Trail
8 I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
9 Kindhearted Woman Blues
10 Phonograph Blues
11 Ramblin On My Mind
12 Travelin Riverside Blues
13 When You Got A Good Friend
14 32-20 Blues
15 Preaching Blues
16 They're Red Hot
17 If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
18 I'm A Steady Rollin' Man
19 Milkcow's Calf Blues
20 Little Queen Of Spades
21 Dead Shrimp Blues
22 Last Fair Deal Gone Down
23 Stones In My Passway
24 From Four Till Late
25 Honeymoon Blues
26 Love In Vain
27 Malted Milk
28 Drunken Hearted Man
29 Stop Breakin Down Blues