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Music CD - Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings
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Music CD: The Complete Recordings
Artist: Robert Johnson
List Price: $24.98
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. Kind Hearted Woman Blues (take 1)
2. Kind Hearted Woman Blues (take 2)
3. I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
4. Sweet Home Chicago
5. Ramblin' On My Mind (take 1)
6. Ramblin' On My Mind (take 2)
7. When You Got A Good Friend (take 1)
8. When You Got A Good Friend (take 2)
9. Come On In My Kitchen (take 1)
10. Come On In My Kitchen (take 2)
11. Terraplane Blues
12. Phonograph Blues (take 1)
13. Phonograph Blues (take 2)
14. 32-20 Blues
15. They're Red Hot
16. Dead Shrimp Blues
17. Cross Road Blues (take 1)
18. Cross Road Blues (take 2)
19. Walkin' Blues
20. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646491621
Format: Box set
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 1996-10-08
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: The beginning of the blues.
Comment: I recognize these recordings as the beginning of the blues. They are simple and exciting.
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Summary: Authoritative
Comment: Don't bother with single disc collections, just buy this. You'll want to grab it for the extra tracks eventually, so save your money and get this version. I originally had the King of the Delta Blues single disc, which is great, but lacks a lot of really good songs included here.
As a guitarist, I had bought Robert Johnson: The New Transcriptions, which matches up with this two-disc set. So that's why I finally bought this set and I give it a hearty five of five, a must-own for any good blues collection.
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Summary: Necessary for any rock or blues fan.
Comment: This is a necessity for any music fan. It may take a few listens to start to sink in, but worth the effort.
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Summary: this is a masterpiece
Comment: the complete recordings of robert johnson are one of the best box sets ever released (along with Bessie Smith's).
all the various songs that RJ ever recorded are made available in this set. the set includes malted milk, sweet home chicago, crossroads, walking blues, ramblings on my mind and love in vain. Some of these songs have been recorded by a variety of other artists. Son House and Clapton recorded walking blues, malter milk was recorded unplugged by Clapton in the mid-1990s, the Rolling Stones made a cover of Love in Vain (in Let it Bleed, 1969, in get your ya-ya's out and more recently in Stripped) and so on.
Though some of the covers of Robert Johnson's songs were quite good, I don't think they were nearly as good as RJ's original recordings. RJ makes a more delicate, but no less intense, recording than Son House --who, great as he was, was a bit rougher. And RJ makes a more powerful, more soulful renditions that were actually delivered by either Clapton or the Stones. take Love in vain. In the version recorded by the Stones, Keith Richards or Mick Taylor were respectively playing rhythm and slide guitars on a progression of chords that G-D-E minor and C (this is the live version, the version releaed on Let it bleed is in E-flat). It's nice and it's catchy. Nothing to compplain about. but in RJ's version there is no minor chord, the songs is much straighter and to the point. And there is more pain, more despair, more loneliness--which is why his version just sweeps you away.
And for those you want to learn how to play guitar, RJ's intricate fingerwork is just otherworldly and magnific; he plays simultaneouly rhythm and lead, alternating rhythmic parts with very sharp solo licks. It's pure genius.
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Summary: Johnson should demand a soul refund if this is all he got!
Comment: Robert Johnson's music is indeed listen-able, but is by no means the revolutionary, almost supernatural sound his fans- primarily guilt-ridden, white, urban liberals- make it out to be. Actually, his down-home ditties sound pretty much like every other blues man of his time. If you like that kind of primitive strumming, that's fine, but take a step back and drop the embarrassingly effusive accolades, before you make a fool of yourself.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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