Robert Johnson ?King Of The Delta Blues Singers Volumes 1&2 2LP promo Australia
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Robert Johnson ?King Of The Delta Blues Singers Volumes 1&2 2LP Australian promo rare
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Original Australian 1985 mono pressing on CBS in gold-stamped promo sleeve (non gatefold, both albums in one sleeve)
King of the Delta Blues Singers is a compilation album by American blues musician Robert Johnson, released in 1961 on Columbia Records. It is considered one of the greatest and most influential blues releases ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 27 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The album compiles sixteen mono recordings, thirteen of which were previously available as 78s on the Vocalion label, originally recorded during two sessions in 1936 and 1937. The records sold well in their target market of the American south and southwest, with "Terraplane Blues" something of a regional hit, but their sales figures were never beyond 5000 or so in total. By the time this album appeared, Johnson was mostly rumor, if known at all, except to a small group of collectors and those who had purchased the original 78s. An advance copy of the album was given by its instigator, John Hammond, to his newest signing to Columbia, Bob Dylan, who had never heard of Johnson and became mesmerized by the intensity of the recordings.
Hammond, who had initially searched for Johnson in 1938 to include him on the bill for the first of his From Spirituals to Swing concerts, prodded Columbia to assemble this record during the height of the folk revival. It was the first of the retrospective albums for folk, country, and blues artists of the 1920s and 1930s rediscovered in the wake of that revival, some of whom would be located and invited to appear at events such as the Newport Folk Festival. Nevertheless, Johnson's LP failed to make the charts, but the quality of Johnson's music was recognized and Johnson's reputation grew. The album became a badge of hip taste in the 1960s, evidenced by its appearance in the album cover photo to Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home amid various emblems of bohemian life. Songs from the album were repeatedly covered throughout the decade by many artists, notably Eric Clapton who recorded "Ramblin' On My Mind" on John Mayall's 1966 classic Bluesbreakers album, and "Cross Road Blues" with his own power trio Cream on the 1968 album Wheels of Fire. Clapton would later record an entire disc of Johnson's songs, Me and Mr. Johnson.
A1 Crossroads Blues
A2 Terraplane Blues
A3 Come On In My Kitchen
A4 Walking Blues
A5 Last Fair Deal Gone Down
A6 32-20 Blues
A7 Kindhearted Woman Blues
A8 If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
B1 Preaching Blues
B2 When You Got A Good Friend
B3 Rambling On My Mind
B4 Stones In My Passway
B5 Travelling Riverside Blues
B6 Milkcow Calf Blues
B7 Me And The Devil Blues
B8 Hellhound On My Trail
C1 Kind Hearted Woman Blues
C2 I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
C3 Sweet Home Chicago
C4 Rambling On My Mind
C5 Phonograph Blues
C6 They're Red Hot
C7 Dead Shrimp Blues
C8 Preachin' Blues
D1 I'm A Steady Rollin' Man
D2 From Four Till Late
D3 Little Queen Of Spades
D4 Malted Milk
D5 Drunken Hearted Man
D6 Stop Breakin' Down Blues
D7 Honeymoon Blues
D8 Love In Vain
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: EX++ minimal wear, no damage or ring marking; promotional NFS gold stamp on rear
RECORDS: NM faintly visible sleeve scuffs, plays M
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