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DISCID=dd0ace11
DTITLE=Robert Johnson / King of the Delta Blues Singers
DYEAR=1998
DGENRE=Blues
TTITLE0=Cross Road Blues
TTITLE1=Terraplane Blues
TTITLE2=Come On In My Kitchen
TTITLE3=Walkin' Blues
TTITLE4=Last Fair Deal Gone Down
TTITLE5=32-20 Blues
TTITLE6=Kind Hearted Woman Blues
TTITLE7=If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
TTITLE8=Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
TTITLE9=When You Got A Good Friend
TTITLE10=Ramblin' On My Mind
TTITLE11=Stones In My Passway
TTITLE12=Traveling Riverside Blues
TTITLE13=Milkcow's Calf Blues
TTITLE14=Me And The Devil Blues
TTITLE15=Hell Hound On My Trail
TTITLE16=Traveling Riverside Blues (Previously Unissued Alternate Take
TTITLE16= From Original Session 06-20-1937)
EXTD=1998 Columbia/Legacy\nOriginally Released 1966\nRemastered Editio
EXTD=n Released September 15, 1998\nGold CD Version Released June 28, 
EXTD=1994\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Reading about the power inherent in Ro
EXTD=bert Johnson's music is one thing, but actually experiencing it i
EXTD=s another matter entirely. The official 1998 edition of the origi
EXTD=nal 1961 album was certainly worth the wait, remastered off the b
EXTD=est-quality original 78s available, of far superior quality to an
EXTD=y of the source materials used on even the 1991 box set. Johnson'
EXTD=s guitar takes on a fullness never heard on previous reissues, an
EXTD=d except for a nagging hiss in spots on "Terraplane Blues" (the e
EXTD=qualization on this disc is extreme to even sport some minute tur
EXTD=ntable rumble in the low end), this really brings his music alive
EXTD=. If there is such a thing as a greatest-hits package available o
EXTD=n Johnson, this landmark album, which jump-started the whole '60s
EXTD= blues revival, would certainly be the one. The majority of Johns
EXTD=on's best-known tunes, the ones that made the legend, are all abo
EXTD=ard: "Crossroads," "Walkin' Blues," "Me & The Devil Blues," "Come
EXTD= On In My Kitchen," and the apocalyptic visions contained in "Hel
EXTD=lhound On My Trail" are the blues at its finest, the lyrics sheer
EXTD= poetry. And making its first appearance anywhere is a newly disc
EXTD=overed-in-1998 alternate take of "Traveling Riverside Blues" that
EXTD='s appended to the original 16-track lineup. If you are starting 
EXTD=your blues collection from the ground up, be sure to make this yo
EXTD=ur very first purchase. -- Cub Koda\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: AMG EXP
EXTD=ERT REVIEW: Once The Complete Recordings became a huge success, S
EXTD=ony opened the floodgates for Robert Johnson reissues. Over the n
EXTD=ext decade, the label reissued those very recordings in a variety
EXTD= of forms, including gold discs of the original King of the Delta
EXTD= Blues Singers album, a reconfigured version of the box set, a co
EXTD=mpilation of highlights entited King of the Delta Blues and, fina
EXTD=lly, a 1998 reissue of King of the Delta Blues Singers. It was th
EXTD=e first time the original album had been released as a regular CD
EXTD= but it was distinguished by another factor -- the disc boasted a
EXTD= previously unreleased version of "Travellin' Riverside Blues" as
EXTD= a bonus track. It's hard to see how that particular cut was over
EXTD=looked by the compilers of the original box set, but it's a good 
EXTD=alternate take that may be worth the time of hardcore collectors,
EXTD= even though they're bound to be frustrated by purchasing all of 
EXTD=this material yet again. The album itself remains a classic colle
EXTD=ction of timeless music -- novices should either choose this or K
EXTD=ing of the Delta Blues Singers as an introduction. -- Stephen Tho
EXTD=mas Erlewine\n\nAmazon.com Editorial Review\nIf there is a record
EXTD=ing that is required listening for every blues fan, it's this one
EXTD=. Robert Johnson wasn't just King of the Delta blues; he was one 
EXTD=of its founding fathers, and these re-mastered tunes are as timel
EXTD=ess and important today as they were all those years ago. The son
EXTD=gs that passed into the blues canon, to be covered by countless g
EXTD=uitarists over the years, are here: "Crossroad Blues," "Preaching
EXTD= Blues," "Come On In My Kitchen," "Walking Blues," and more. And 
EXTD=on this particular version of this often-reissued recording, ther
EXTD=e's an additional treat: a previously unreleased version of "Trav
EXTD=eling Riverside Blues." Absolutely essential. --Genevieve William
EXTD=s \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\n4 Stars only because it's incom
EXTD=plete & doesn't need to be, January 26, 2002 \nReviewer: JD Schae
EXTD=fer from San Rafael, Ca USA \nCLASSIC!! Did I say CLASSIC!!\n\nFo
EXTD=r whatever reason, all of Johnson's vital, important and seminal 
EXTD=music is not on this disk. There's room but it didn't happen. The
EXTD=re are only 17 songs here.\n\nSo many blues, rock and beyond musi
EXTD=cians owe so much to Robert Johnson. The legends of his life are 
EXTD=lots of fun (I've visited the three locations near Greenwood, Mis
EXTD=sissippi where he may be buried), but it's the pure sound of the 
EXTD=melodies, guitar playing and lyrics that leave an everlasting imp
EXTD=ression.\n\nThese are acoustic blues at their best. So many lyric
EXTD=s and riffs found their way into the music of other blues and roc
EXTD=k musicians, that it would take too long to list them all.\n\nExc
EXTD=pt for the influence of Muddy Waters, no one else has had a great
EXTD=er and longer lasting influence on American popular music.\n\nThi
EXTD=s is highly recommended although to get the full impact of Robert
EXTD= Johnson, one should get "The Complete Recordings" so you can hea
EXTD=r "Sweet home Chicago" made famous by the Blues Brothers amongst 
EXTD=others, "The Sky is Falling" made more famous by the great Elmore
EXTD= James and Stevie Ray Vaughn, as well as more of the ground break
EXTD=ing music by this man cut down prematurely by his own tragic ways
EXTD=. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nEssential supplement to The Com
EXTD=plete Recordings, April 2, 2001 \nReviewer: Alexander G. Lynn fro
EXTD=m Chicago, IL USA \nThe music and legend of Robert Johnson loom o
EXTD=ver twentieth century music so vastly that perhaps the only valid
EXTD= analogy would be to the sky. Johnson's legacy is profound to the
EXTD= point of forming the entire field upon which generations of guit
EXTD=arists and singers of rock and roll and blues music have shaped t
EXTD=heir aspirations, as if the clouds present in Johnson's horizon c
EXTD=an be interpreted into any number of shapes that may be re-combin
EXTD=ed to form countless new dreams and nightmares. Six-and-a-half de
EXTD=cades after these recordings were made (and four decades after th
EXTD=e original version of this album was released into an unsuspectin
EXTD=g world), Johnson continues to resonate in our culture as a figur
EXTD=e beyond life, much like Hank Williams, Charlie Parker, Arthur Le
EXTD=e, Brian Wilson, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, or Kurt Cobain. \n\n
EXTD=That Johnson's influence is too often due to his legend rather th
EXTD=an his music is unfortunate. Along with Charlie Patton, Skip Jame
EXTD=s, Lemon Jefferson, Will!ie Brown, Son House, Geeshie Wiley, and 
EXTD=Willie McTell, Johnson cut some of the most chilling, joyous, dir
EXTD=ect and dazzling guitar blues of the pre-World War II era. His ar
EXTD=rangements for solo guitar provide the matrix that virtually all 
EXTD=post-war band-based blues and blues rock builds upon. This excell
EXTD=lent CD presents many of his most famous and influential tunes, i
EXTD=n the finest sound quality possible. Sonically, the recordings as
EXTD= presented on this disc are a little warmer and fuller than on Th
EXTD=e Complete Recordings two-CD set. The alternate take of Travellin
EXTD=g Riverside Blues (unavailable on "The Complete Recordings," as t
EXTD=his take had not been discovered when that set was originally iss
EXTD=ued in 1990) is a welcome addition to the Johnson canon. For the 
EXTD=casual fan, this may be an excellent starting point, although the
EXTD= excelllent liner notes on The Complete Recordings may provide co
EXTD=ntext and lyrical transcriptions that would assist those uninitia
EXTD=ted into Johnson's endlessly rewarding mu!sic, one of the true mi
EXTD=lestones of twentieth century culture. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Re
EXTD=view\nHow NOT To Reissue A Classic!, February 2, 2002 \nReviewer:
EXTD= Peter Acebal from Christiansburg, VA United States \nFirst,let m
EXTD=e say this record is a Classic and belongs in anyone's record col
EXTD=lection!\nThen,-what is the problem with Sony? The remastering he
EXTD=re is just as awfully done as the travesty on the recent Louis Ar
EXTD=mstrong Hot 5's & 7's box set!\nGranted,the sound IS warmer than 
EXTD=in the "Complete Recordings" BUT (and this Not to quibble!) the d
EXTD=igital technology resources available to a giant like Sony would 
EXTD=surely have been put to better use,...instead a Classic is reduce
EXTD=d to a budget operation.\nGet this CD all the same,...just keep a
EXTD=n open mind on the issue of sound quality!.... \n\nAmazon.com Cus
EXTD=tomer Review\nHey! Zeppelin didn't write that!, September 4, 2001
EXTD= \nReviewer: David Kenner from Fort Worth, TX USA \nI'm relativel
EXTD=y new to the world of Robert Johnson but bought this CD because "
EXTD=The Complete Recordings" had too many alternate takes and I didn'
EXTD=t want to wade through them. Also, the painting that graces the c
EXTD=over of this LP is priceless. While listening to the CD I kept he
EXTD=aring lines that were lifted from these songs by 70s rock icons a
EXTD=nd incorporated into different songs. Led Zeppelin and Steve Mill
EXTD=er both borrowed heavily from Johnson. Of course, there were time
EXTD=s when Zep covered a blues standard that was in the public domain
EXTD= and took writing credit for it. Anyway, this CD is just as great
EXTD= as everyone says it is. Johnson's guitar work is extremely tasty
EXTD= throughout and his vocal style was incredibly strong. Great tune
EXTD=s, good sound and new liner notes make this a "must have" for eve
EXTD=ry blues and classic rock fan. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nGe
EXTD=t The Complete Recordings instead, August 30, 2001 \nReviewer: A 
EXTD=music fan from USA \nThe music on this CD is great, no doubt. The
EXTD=se songs are all classics. But you would be doing much better to 
EXTD=purchase The Complete Recordings instead. There are simply too ma
EXTD=ny songs missing from this CD to make it a great purchase. Out of
EXTD= Robert Johnson's 29 recorded songs, only 17 are present here. Ab
EXTD=solute classics like "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom", "Sweet Home 
EXTD=Chicago", "Steady Rollin' Man", and "From Four Until Late" are mi
EXTD=ssing. Do yourself a favor and purchase The Complete Recordings. 
EXTD=\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThis Is Music That Bleeds, May 5,
EXTD= 2001 \nReviewer: A music fan from San Francisco, CA USA \nIt is 
EXTD=hard to separate the man and the music from all of the hype. Sony
EXTD= plays up the legend of Robert Johnson rather than the music, whi
EXTD=ch is unfortunate. This is some of the most haunting and searing 
EXTD=playing that I have ever heard. The guitar playing is amazingly c
EXTD=omplex for a self-taught musician. This music is best heard late 
EXTD=in the evening when its quiet and everyone has gone to sleep. \n\n
EXTD=The sound on this CD is a bit better than that of The Complete Re
EXTD=cordings. Also, this plays more like an album than The Complete R
EXTD=ecordings, which is full of alternate takes and studio chatter. A
EXTD=t this price, this is a bargain but for fuller exploration of the
EXTD= man and his music, the box set is also essential. \n\nIf you are
EXTD= new to Robert Johnson, try to listen to the music first, before 
EXTD=reading the liner notes about his life and who he has influenced.
EXTD= The music stands on its own as seminal blues that is timeless. \n
EXTD=\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nKeef Riffhard, April 20, 2001 \nRev
EXTD=iewer: David Bradley from Sterling, VA United States \nIgnore the
EXTD= nauseating hype-machine that seems to grow out of any conversati
EXTD=on concerning Robert Johnson. All the talk of "deals with the dev
EXTD=il" and "tales of infamy" obscure the fact that he was a great, g
EXTD=reat guitar player and singer.\n\nOne good reason to listen to th
EXTD=is music is because it makes Keith Richards guitar playing more o
EXTD=bviously part of a continuing fabric, and it makes it pretty obvi
EXTD=ous what Keith was listening to when he settled on a singing styl
EXTD=e. Jimmy Page obviously got a lot out of these recordings too.\n\n
EXTD=But I'm falling into the modern-day trap now too. \n\nForget who 
EXTD=influenced what, forget all the garbage about tracking down Johns
EXTD=on's roots, and figuring out if he really sold his soul to gain h
EXTD=is ability, yadda yadda yadda.\n\nInstead, play this record, LOUD
EXTD=. It's great stuff, and can stand on it's own. \n\nAmazon.com Cus
EXTD=tomer Review\nEssential supplement to The Complete Recordings, Ap
EXTD=ril 2, 2001 \nReviewer: Alexander G. Lynn from Chicago, IL USA \n
EXTD=The music and legend of Robert Johnson loom over twentieth centur
EXTD=y music so vastly that perhaps the only valid analogy would be to
EXTD= the sky. Johnson's legacy is profound to the point of forming th
EXTD=e entire field upon which generations of guitarists and singers o
EXTD=f rock and roll and blues music have shaped their aspirations, as
EXTD= if the clouds present in Johnson's horizon can be interpreted in
EXTD=to any number of shapes that may be re-combined to form countless
EXTD= new dreams and nightmares. Six-and-a-half decades after these re
EXTD=cordings were made (and four decades after the original version o
EXTD=f this album was released into an unsuspecting world), Johnson co
EXTD=ntinues to resonate in our culture as a figure beyond life, much 
EXTD=like Hank Williams, Charlie Parker, Arthur Lee, Brian Wilson, Jim
EXTD=i Hendrix, Elvis Presley, or Kurt Cobain. \n\nThat Johnson's infl
EXTD=uence is too often due to his legend rather than his music is unf
EXTD=ortunate. Along with Charlie Patton, Skip James, Lemon Jefferson,
EXTD= Will!ie Brown, Son House, Geeshie Wiley, and Willie McTell, John
EXTD=son cut some of the most chilling, joyous, direct and dazzling gu
EXTD=itar blues of the pre-World War II era. His arrangements for solo
EXTD= guitar provide the matrix that virtually all post-war band-based
EXTD= blues and blues rock builds upon. This excelllent CD presents ma
EXTD=ny of his most famous and influential tunes, in the finest sound 
EXTD=quality possible. Sonically, the recordings as presented on this 
EXTD=disc are a little warmer and fuller than on The Complete Recordin
EXTD=gs two-CD set. The alternate take of Travelling Riverside Blues (
EXTD=unavailable on "The Complete Recordings," as this take had not be
EXTD=en discovered when that set was originally issued in 1990) is a w
EXTD=elcome addition to the Johnson canon. For the casual fan, this ma
EXTD=y be an excellent starting point, although the excelllent liner n
EXTD=otes on The Complete Recordings may provide context and lyrical t
EXTD=ranscriptions that would assist those uninitiated into Johnson's 
EXTD=endlessly rewarding mu!sic, one of the true milestones of twentie
EXTD=th century culture. \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nUnreleased Tr
EXTD=ack A Revelation, June 27, 2000 \nReviewer: A music fan from Gree
EXTD=nwich Village, N.Y. \nThe previously unreleased early take of "Tr
EXTD=aveling Riverside Blues" will be a revelation for serious devotee
EXTD=s of Johnson, since it shows him in a markedly spontaneous, uncer
EXTD=tain and vulnerable state that's winning in its lack of audience-
EXTD=minded effect. This is Johnson thinking out loud about the song, 
EXTD=its personal meaning and its communicative potential, exploring h
EXTD=ow to merge all these perspectives for maximum impact on a waitin
EXTD=g world. Poignant and electrifying. \n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nP
EXTD=roducer: Don Law.\nCompilation LP reissue producer: Frank Driggs.
EXTD=\nCD reissue producer: Lawrence Cohn.\nVincent Liebler, Engineer\n
EXTD=\nAlbum Notes\nSolo performer: Robert Johnson (vocals, acoustic g
EXTD=uitar).\n\nThis reissue of KING OF THE DELTA BLUES SINGERS contai
EXTD=ns 1 previously unreleased track. \n\nDigitally remastered by Rob
EXTD=ert Vosgien (CMS Digital, Pasadena, California).\n\nRecorded in S
EXTD=an Antonio, Texas on November 23 & 26-27, 1936 and Dallas, Texas 
EXTD=on June 19-20, 1937. Original LP released on Columbia Records (19
EXTD=61). Includes original liner notes by Frank Driggs. Includes reis
EXTD=sue liner notes by Peter Guralnick.\n\nThis is part of Columbia/L
EXTD=egacy's Master Sound series.\nMaster Sound releases are 24-karat 
EXTD=gold CDs remastered from first-generation masters. This process u
EXTD=tilizes 20-bit technology and Sony's "Super Bit Mapping" system.\n
EXTD=\nOf all the early blues singers and players, Robert Johnson towe
EXTD=rs above all the others. He lived fast, died young, and left a sm
EXTD=all body of music that laid the groundwork for electric blues as 
EXTD=well as rock & roll. Johnson had a unique voice, capable of deep 
EXTD=growlings and grumblings and eerie, almost ghostly wails and moan
EXTD=s. His guitar illustrated his stories, making any other instrumen
EXTD=ts irrelevant. His songs conveyed a sense of a man trying to outr
EXTD=un a pack of demons ("Hell Hound on My Trail," "Cross Road Blues"
EXTD=), were autobiographical ("I'm a Steady Rollin' Man") and, of cou
EXTD=rse, dealt with love troubles ("From Four Until Late," "Love in V
EXTD=ain"). Johnson's songs have become blues standards--"Sweet Home C
EXTD=hicago," "Dust My Broom," and many others have been adapted by ma
EXTD=ny rock bands, from the Rolling Stones' version of "Love in Vain"
EXTD= to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "They're Red Hot." If you want to 
EXTD=hear the main architect of the twin dynasties of blues and rock &
EXTD= roll (who also influenced folk and country music), Robert Johnso
EXTD=n is the man, and KING is a beautifully annotated introduction.\n
EXTD=\nVibe (12/01/1999)\nIncluded in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of t
EXTD=he 20th Century\n\nQ Magazine (7/01, p.86) - Included in Q's 50 H
EXTD=eaviest Albums of All Time - ...Music that is stark, possessed an
EXTD=d frighteningly intense...\n\nLiving Blues (1-2/99, p.78) - ...wi
EXTD=ll no doubt be irresistible to hardcore Johnson fans.\n\nRolling 
EXTD=Stone (12/02/1970)\n...Johnson is just incredible: a great guitar
EXTD=ist, a brilliant song writer, a tremendous singer...it's the high
EXTD=est art, the greatest beauty imaginable...\n\nDown Beat (5/24/62)
EXTD= - 5 Stars - Excellent - ...He was a haunting singer and a poet..
EXTD=.. there is a variety of tempo and rhythm and attitude here that 
EXTD=is a credit to the tradition, and in the hoarse directness of Joh
EXTD=nson's voice there is an immediacy that cuts... through the 25 ye
EXTD=ars since these tracks were made....Those words are strong on pap
EXTD=er, but when one hears Johnson sing them they are stronger still,
EXTD= and beautiful. His kind of emotional honesty takes bravery.... H
EXTD=onor Robert Johnson....\n
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