ROBERT JOHNSON COMPLETE 12x10" RECORD BOX NEW 1000 MADE INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED

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Robert Johnson - "The Complete Original Masters" - Twelve 10" Record Box at 45rpm - BRAND NEW and FACTORY SEALED - Everything is in MINT Condition - - - Only 1000 Copies Pressed !
 

Recreated in the historical look and feel of the twelve 10" 78rpm discs that originally carried Robert Johnson's music into the world in 1936 and 1937 (only playing at 45rpm), this Limited Edition collector's set is individually numbered to 1,000. Housed in an actual 78rpm album book - each "page" being a sleeve holding a single disc - each vinyl disc is outiftted with reproductions of the original record labels. Also included is a unique booklet with a new 1,500-word essay written by Ted Gioia, Texas-based pianist and music historian, and the author of Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (2008); Work Songs (2006); and The History Of Jazz (1997), telling the story of Robert Johnson, complete historic track annotation and discographic data and photos.
 

The Complete Original Masters Tracklisting:

Disc 1.     Kind Hearted Woman Blues / Terraplane Blues
Disc 2.     32-20 Blues / Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Disc 3.     I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom / Dead Shrimp Blues
Disc 4.     Ramblin’  On My Mind / Cross Road Blues
Disc 5.     Come On In My Kitchen / They’re Red Hot
Disc 6.     Sweet Home Chicago / Walkin’ Blues
Disc 7.     From Four Until Late / Hellhound On My Trail
Disc 8.     Stones in my Passway / I’m a Steady Rollin’ Man
Disc 9.     Malted Milk / Milkcow’s Calf Blues
Disc 10.  Stop Breakin’ Down Blues / Honeymoon Blues
Disc 11.  Little Queen of Spades / Me and the Devil Blues
Disc 12.  Preachin’ Blues / Love in Vain

"...A few Robert Johnson metal masters still existed after the various scrap drives and these formed the basis for the first reissue LP in the early '60s. In 1980 they were sent to a freelance engineer who updated the sound restoration for a soundtrack. They were returned to CBS Records, but went astray before they reached the vault. In 2008 a reorganization of the Sony Archive in New York revealed a box labeled "Surplus LPs" which contained the missing metal masters. They had been mis-labeled and stored in the wrong building for nearly thirty years!

"Unfortunately, for the purposes of this project, most of these newly-found masters consisted of takes never released on 78 rpm. The only parts originally issued on 78 rpm still existing were: '32-20 Blues,' 'Ramblin' On My Mind,' 'Little Queen Of Spades' and 'Preachin' Blues.'

"Before tape, recording masters were cut onto wax, and later, by the time Robert Johnson recorded, onto acetate coated aluminum disc, which was electro-plated. The metal was stripped away to form a perfect mirror image of the grooves, i.e., the grooves projected upwards. Then, this negative was again plated to form a positive; this served as the 'mother' and was used to produce one or more negatives or stampers for production runs. When these wore out, more stampers were plated from the mother.

"Glenn Korman, head of Sony Archives, authorized all existing parts to be shipped to sound engineer Harry Coster in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Harry, a 78 rpm expert, possesses a record press which is kept in a barn in the Dutch countryside and he hand-made new polystyrene pressings from the negatives, making new 78 rpm discs; these were then transferred to the digital medium and sonically enhanced." - Producer, Michael Brooks

The other songs were sourced from the very best 78 copies that the Sony team could locate.

Original source material provided by Bruce Bastin Supply. Sound restoration by Harry Coster. Mastering by Vic Anesini.