Genius Of The Blues

Robert Johnson

Robert Johnson’s blues style, performed in an extremely simple manner, perfectly suits the emotion in his lyrics, which are real poems of suggestive imagery while being permeated with the melancholy and angst derived from the crossroads between the rural and the industrial, the old and the new. This CD compiles, for the first time in a single volume, the whole recorded works of Robert Johnson not counting 12 alternate takes). Since the matter is not entirely clear and a number of these alternate takes have been previously issued as masters in some previous anthologies, I have decided to choose the particular take which offers a better quality of sound, just like I have done in the case of previously unreleased material.

Tracklisting:

1. Kindhearted Woman Blues 2:52
2. I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom 2:58
3. Sweet Home Chicago 3:02
4. Rambling On My Mind 2:52
5. When You Got A Good Friend 2:38
6. Come On In My Kitchen 2:49
7. Terraplane Blues 3:01
8. Phonograph Blues 2:38
9. 32-20 Blues 2:54
10. They’re Red Hot 3:00
11. Dead Shrimp Blues 2:32
12. Cross Road Blues 2:40
13. Walking Blues 2:31
14. Last Fair Deal Gone Down 2:40
15. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil) 2:53
16. If I Had Possession Over Jugement Day 2:37
17. Stones In My Passway 2:30
18. I’m A Steady Rollin’ Man 2:38
19. From Four Till Late 2:25
20. Hellhound On My Trail 2:37
21. Little Queen Of Spades 2:17
22. Malted Milk 2:19
23. Drunken Hearted Man 2:20
24. Me And The Devil Blues 2:36
25. Stop Breakin’ Down Blues 2:18
26. Travelling Riverside Blues 2:49
27. Honeymoon Blues 2:19
28. Love In Vain 2:21
29. Milkcow’s Café Blues 2:14

All compositions by Robert Johnson. Every effort has been made to obtain the best possible sound for this historic music