Catalogue: JASMCD 3001
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/06/2001
Bar Code: 604988 30012 3
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Robert JOHNSONHis Recorded Legacy - The 29 Songs
 
The plot of the 1986 Hollywood movie "Crossroads"
concerns a teenage classical guitar student at New York's prestigious Juilliard
School of Music. His personal obsession is the music of long-dead blues singer
Robert Johnson and he has a notion that instead of the twenty-nine songs Johnson
is known to have recorded, a thirtieth one exists; with the discovery of this
missing song, he could make his own reputation by recording it. When the lad
finds Willie Brown, a known associate of Johnson, to be a patient in a New York
hospital, he befriends the old man and together they start on an unlikely
odyssey to Mississippi to unearth the song (unsuccessfully) and to discover
whether Johnson had made a pact with the Devil, at a crossroad, as legend would
have it.Presented here are the twenty-nine songs, remastered using the wizardry
of modern sound techniques to give the listener a lot more of Robert Johnson and
a lot less of the poor recording techniques of his day, without in any way
corrupting the actual music. The only liberty which has been taken has been to
select the best take where an alternative exists and to compile the twenty-nine
songs in a running order which provides a better listening experience than the
strict discographical order allows.
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