Robert Johnson | Best of | Vinyl

This Not Now Music single-LP distills Robert Johnson’s slim, era-defining catalog of 1936-37 Delta blues recordings into a 16-song primer. Johnson’s fingerpicked guitar work and haunted lyricism on cuts like “Cross Road Blues,” “Hellhound on My Trail,” and “Terraplane Blues” would go on to shape the entire vocabulary of postwar and British blues-rock. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl, this collection serves as an accessible entry point into recordings that Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and generations of blues guitarists have cited as foundational.

Track List

Side A

1. Cross Road Blues
2. Ramblin’ on My Mind
3. Terraplane Blues
4. 32-20 Blues
5. Walking Blues
6. When You Got a Good Friend
7. If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
8. Travelling Riverside Blues

Side B

1. Hellhound on My Trail
2. Come On in My Kitchen
3. Me and the Devil Blues
4. Last Fair Deal Gone Down
5. Kindhearted Woman Blues
6. Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)
7. Milkcow’s Calf Blues
8. Stones in My Passway

Release Details

• UPC: 5060397601094
• Label: NOT NOW MUSIC
• Format: LP Vinyl — Standard
• Genre: Blues
• Release Date: 8/11/2014