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Compilation album by Robert Johnson
Released August 28, 1990
Recorded
November 23–27, 1936
June 19–20, 1937
Studio
Gunter Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, US
Warner Brothers/Vitagraph Building, Dallas, Texas, US
Genre Delta blues
Length 104:53
Label Columbia
Producer
Don Law (original recordings)Stephen LaVere, Frank Driggs (reissue)
Robert Johnson chronology
King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II
(1970) The Complete Recordings
(1990)
The Complete Recordings is a compilation album by American Delta blues musician Robert Johnson. The 41 songs were recorded in two sessions in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas, for the American Record Company (ARC) during 1936 and 1937. Most were first released on 78 rpm records in 1937. The Complete Recordings, released August 28, 1990, by Columbia Records, contains every recording Johnson is known to have made, except an alternate take of `Traveling Riverside Blues`.

The Complete Recordings peaked at number 80 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album sold more than a million copies[1] and won a Grammy Award in 1991 for `Best Historical Album.`[2] In 1992, the Blues Foundation inducted the album into the Blues Hall of Fame.[3] The National Recording Preservation Board also included it in the Library of Congress`s National Recording Registry in 2003.[4] Eric Clapton and Keith Richards contributed to the album`s liner notes with essays on Johnson`s influence on their music.[5]

Background and recording
Before he died in 1938, with the help of H. C. Speir, Johnson recorded 29 songs for the American Record Corporation (ARC). His complete canon of recordings includes these 29 masters, plus 13 surviving alternate takes, all recorded at two ARC sessions held in San Antonio and Dallas, Texas. The Mississippi Delta—200 miles of fertile lowlands stretching from Memphis, Tennessee, in the North to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the South—was one of the primary locales in which the blues originated and developed.[6] He is said to have been heavily influenced by early blues artists like Skip James,[7] who was recorded in 1931, around the same time that Johnson amazed his elders with his mastery of the guitar. James`s eerie, distinctive style is reflected throughout Johnson`s recordings, especially `32-20 Blues,` which he adapted from James`s `22-20 Blues.`

Johnson`s first session in San Antonio took place over three days – November 23, 26, and 27, 1936. Sixteen songs were recorded in the Gunter Hotel, where ARC had set up equipment to record several musical artists. `Kind Hearted Woman Blues` was the first song recorded. Also captured in San Antonio were `I Believe I`ll Dust My Broom` and `Sweet Home Chicago,` both of which became post-war blues standards. `Terraplane Blues,` known for its metaphoric lyrics, became a regional hit and Johnson`s signature song. Most of the selections were released on Vocalion 78 rpm records, but three songs and several interesting alternate takes remained unissued until they appeared on the Columbia albums. Six months later, on June 19 and 20, 1937, other recording sessions took place at the Warner Brothers/Vitagraph Building in Dallas, where, once again, ARC had set up its recording equipment to capture many different musicians. This time, 13 songs were recorded and 10 were released during the following year.[8]

No. Title Issued on Length
1. `Kindhearted Woman Blues` (take 1) Vocalion 03416 2:49
2. `Kindhearted Woman Blues` (take 2) Vocalion 03416 2:31
3. `I Believe I`ll Dust My Broom` Vocalion 03475 2:56
4. `Sweet Home Chicago` Vocalion 03601 2:59
5. `Rambling on My Mind` (take 1) Columbia CL 1654 2:51
6. `Rambling on My Mind` (take 2) Vocalion 03519 2:20
7. `When You Got a Good Friend` (take 1) Columbia CL 1654 2:37
8. `When You Got a Good Friend` (take 2) previously unreleased 2:50
9. `Come On in My Kitchen` (take 1) Columbia CL 1654 2:47
10. `Come On in My Kitchen` (take 2) Vocalion 03563 2:35
11. `Terraplane Blues` Vocalion 03416 3:00
12. `Phonograph Blues` (take 1) Columbia 30034 2:37
13. `Phonograph Blues` (take 2) previously unreleased 2:32
14. `32-20 Blues` Vocalion 03445 2:51
15. `They`re Red Hot` Vocalion 03563 2:56
16. `Dead Shrimp Blues` Vocalion 03475 2:30
17. `Cross Road Blues` (take 1) Vocalion 03519 2:39
18. `Cross Road Blues` (take 2) Columbia CL 1654 2:29
19. `Walking Blues` Vocalion 03601 2:28
20. `Last Fair Deal Gone Down` Vocalion 03445 2:39
Disc two
No. Title Issued on Length
1. `Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)` Vocalion 04630 2:50
2. `If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day` Columbia CL 1654 2:34
3. `Stones in My Passway` Vocalion 03723 2:27
4. `I`m a Steady Rollin` Man` Vocalion 03723 2:35
5. `From Four Till Late` Vocalion 03623 2:23
6. `Hellhound on My Trail` Vocalion 03623 2:35
7. `Little Queen of Spades` (take 1) Vocalion 04108 2:11
8. `Little Queen of Spades` (take 2) Columbia 30034 2:15
9. `Malted Milk` Vocalion 03665 2:17
10. `Drunken Hearted Man` (take 1) Columbia 30034 2:24
11. `Drunken Hearted Man` (take 2) previously unreleased 2:19
12. `Me and the Devil Blues` (take 1) Vocalion 04108 2:37
13. `Me and the Devil Blues` (take 2) Columbia CL 1654 2:29
14. `Stop Breakin` Down Blues` (take 1) Columbia 30034 2:16
15. `Stop Breakin` Down Blues` (take 2) Vocalion 04002 2:21
16. `Traveling Riverside Blues` Columbia CL 1654 2:47
17. `Honeymoon Blues` Vocalion 04002 2:16
18. `Love in Vain` (take 1) Columbia 30034 2:28
19. `Love in Vain` (take 4) Vocalion 04630 2:19
20. `Milkcow`s Calf Blues` (take 3) Columbia CL 1654 2:14
21. `Milkcow`s Calf Blues` (take 2) Vocalion 03665 2:20

Personnel
Robert Johnson – acoustic guitar, vocals
Don Law – original recording producer
Vincent Liebler – original recording engineer
Laurence Cohen – Columbia `Roots ‘n’ Blues Series` producer
Frank Driggs – reissue producer
Stephen LaVere – reissue producer