Robert Johnson King of The Delta Blues Singers

Q: Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time" - "...Music that is stark, possessed and frighteningly intense..."
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CD Details

  • Released: September 15, 1998
  • Originally Released: 1998
  • Label: Sony

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 12/11/03, p.104
Ranked #27 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Johnson recorded only twenty-nine songs, but their evanescent passion has resonated through the decades..."
Rolling Stone - 12/2/70, p.50
"...Johnson is just incredible: a great guitarist, a brilliant song writer, a tremendous singer...it's the highest art, the greatest beauty imaginable..."
Q - 7/01, p.86
Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time" - "...Music that is stark, possessed and frighteningly intense..."
Down Beat - 5/24/62
5 Stars - Excellent - "...He was a haunting singer and a poet....there is a variety of tempo and rhythm and attitude here that is a credit to the tradition, and in the hoarse directness of Johnson's voice there is an immediacy that cuts...through the 25 years since these tracks were made....His kind of emotional honesty takes bravery....Honor Robert Johnson...."
Down Beat - 5/24/62
5 Stars - Excellent - "...He was a haunting singer and a poet....there is a variety of tempo and rhythm and attitude here that is a credit to the tradition, and in the hoarse directness of Johnson's voice there is an immediacy that cuts...through the 25 years since these tracks were made....Those words are strong on paper, but when one hears Johnson sing them they are stronger still, and beautiful. His kind of emotional honesty takes bravery....Honor Robert Johnson...."
Vibe - 12/99, p.158
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Living Blues - 1-2/99, p.78
"...will no doubt be irresistible to hardcore Johnson fans."

Tracks:

  • 1.Cross Road Blues
  • 2.Terraplane Blues
  • 3.Come On In My Kitchen
  • 4.Walkin' Blues
  • 5.Last Fair Deal Gone Down
  • 6.32-20 Blues
  • 7.Kind Hearted Woman Blues
  • 8.If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
  • 9.Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
  • 10.When You Got A Good Friend
  • 11.Ramblin' On My Mind
  • 12.Stones In My Passway
  • 13.Traveling Riverside Blues
  • 14.Milkcow's Calf Blues
  • 15.Me And The Devil Blues
  • 16.Hell Hound On My Trail
  • 17.Traveling Riverside Blues

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