Robert JohnsonBest Robert Johnson Albums Ranked
8.1
Avg Score
4
Opinions
3
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 4 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Robert Johnson's catalog across 3 albums from 4 opinions, with an overall average of 8.1/10. The top-rated Robert Johnson album is The Complete Recordings (1990) with a 10.0/10 average from 1 rating, followed by King of the Delta Blues Singers. The discography on Wavelength spans 1960 to 1990. Cross Road Blues ranks as the highest-rated Robert Johnson song on Wavelength with a 9.3/10 average.
The Complete Recordings
“It seems odd, but probably wise, that nowhere in this definitive collection of Robert Johnson’s forty-one surviving blues recordings is there a single mention of the Robert Johnson Myth. We all know it by now: the young amateur who made a deal with the devil at a dark Mississippi Delta crossroads, disappeared for a year […]”
King of the Delta Blues Singers
“It’s packages like this that turn ordinary music lovers into cynics: First, Legacy bundled mythic bluesman Robert Johnson’s entire recorded output into the 1990 two-disc collection The Complete Recordings, and since then the label has unbundled the limited trove for different single volumes — one for the Martin Scorsese Blues project, now two patterned after […]”
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