King of the Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson

King of the Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson

I'm currently listening to the chosen album for my brief, Robert Johnson's - King of the Delta Blues Singers >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TdJmkv9lyI

Whilst listening to the album, probably over and over again till the day is done... I'm going to use this time to search the internet for some research on Robert and the actual album itself, I'm going to watch documentaries, read an abundance of articles and compare them till I come out with some general basic true life journey of Johnson, (as most of his history is lost and has been pieced together by people who knew him, and knew of him). Once I've squeezed enough juice out of my internet lemon, I'll make an organised lemonade from it and move onto the library for some book history.

"The thing about Robert Johnson was that he only existed on his records. He was pure legend."

—Martin Scorsese, Love In Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson

The Album (A Brief bit of Info)
KOTDBS* (king of the delta blues singers)

The album was released in 1961 by Columbia Records as a mono LP. At the time of the release very little was known about Robert Johnson's life, and the only two known photographs of him where not found until over ten years later in 1973. The cover painting on the album depicts a faceless musician in field clothes playing a guitar.
 King of the Delta Blues was reissued on September 15, 1998 by the Legacy Records label of the Sony Corporation, with a new discovered alternate take on "Traveling Riverside Blues" as a bonus track.
 The Wall Street Journal wrote that "when this album king of the delta blues singers made its delated way to England in the mid 1960's, it energised a generation of musicians". And it really did, Eric clapton has said that KOTDBS* and its second volume, where of huge importance as early inspiration in his music career. In 1980, it was the first album to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.


Tracklist:
Side 1

1.	November 27, 1936	unreleased alternate take	1961	Cross Road Blues	2:29
2.	November 23, 1936	Vocalion 3416	1937	Terraplane Blues	3:01
3.	November 23, 1936	unreleased alternate take	1961	Come On in My Kitchen	2:52
4.	November 27, 1936	Vocalion 3601	1937	Walkin' Blues	2:30
5.	November 27, 1936	Vocalion 3445	1937	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	2:39
6.	November 26, 1936	Vocalion 3445	1937	32-20 Blues	2:50
7.	November 23, 1936	Vocalion 3416	1937	Kind Hearted Woman Blues	2:51
8.	November 27, 1936	previously unreleased	1961	If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day	2:36

Side 2

1.	November 27, 1936	Vocalion 4630	1939	Preachin' Blues	2:52
2.	November 23, 1936	previously unreleased	1961	When You Got a Good Friend	2:56
3.	November 23, 1936	unreleased alternate take	1961	Ramblin' On My Mind	2:52
4.	June 19, 1937	Vocalion 3723	1937	Stones in My Passway	2:28
5.	June 20, 1937	previously unreleased	1961	Traveling Riverside Blues	2:47
6.	June 20, 1937	unreleased alternate take	1961	Milkcow's Calf Blues	2:17
7.	June 20, 1937	unreleased alternate take	1961	Me and the Devil Blues	2:34
8.	June 20, 1937	Vocalion 3623	1937	Hellhound on My Trail	2:37