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Really good overview of the Robert Johnson set -- one of my own favorite box sets. As an added bonus, note that Complete is not quite accurate. Two years after the Columbia box set was put together, an additional alternate take of Travelin' Riverside Blues was discovered in an old sales person's kit bag. The track was included on the 1998 reissue of King of the Delta Blues Singers (volume 1), but has never been retroactively added to the Complete recordings. The added track is not much different than the other take, but your completist readers would want to know. Bob Hudson

The Complete Recordings, a double-disc box set released by Sony/Columbia Legacy on August 28, 1990, containing almost everything Robert Johnson ever recorded, with all 29 recordings (and 12 alternate takes) won a Grammy Award for “Best Historical Album” that year. In 2006 he was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (accepted by his son).

The Complete Recordings: A double-disc box set was released on August 28, 1990, containing almost everything Robert Johnson ever recorded, with all 29 recordings, and 12 alternate takes. (There is one further alternate, of Traveling Riverside Blues, which was released on Sony's King of the Delta Blues Singers CD and also as an extra in early printings of the paperback edition of Elijah Wald's Escaping the Delta. [80]

The Complete Recordings is a compilation album by American blues musician Robert Johnson, released August 28, 1990 on Columbia Records. The album's recordings were recorded in two sessions in Dallas and San Antonio, Texas for the American Record Company (ARC) during 1936 and 1937. Most of the songs were first released on 78rpm records in 1937. The Complete Recordings contains every recording Johnson is known to have made, with the exception of an alternate take of Travelling Riverside Blues .