NEW CONTINENT ROBERT JOHNSON: CROSS ROAD BLUES 20 ORIGINAL RECORDINGS GATEFOLD SLEEVE 180gram VIRGIN VINYL - LIMITED EDITION The music of Robert Johnson has inspired a million riffs. The myth of Robert Johnson has inspired a million dreams Jimmy Page The legendary Robert Johnson (1911-1938) stands at the crossroads of American music. He became the first modern bluesman, evolving the country blues of the Mississippi Delta. Johnson was a songwriter of searing depth and a guitar player with a commanding ability that inspired every blues artist that followed in his wake. This essential LP contains the most celebrated numbers of Robert Johnson. It compiles twenty master recordings waxed in San Antonio and Dallas, between 1936 and 1937. Highlights include SWEET HOME CHICAGO, COME ON IN MY KITCHEN, LOVE IN VAIN, I BELIEVE ILL DUST MY BROOM, and Johnsons biggest hit TERRAPLANE BLUES, a popular song on jukeboxes throughout the South. Several songs from this set were repeatedly covered throughout the blues-rock explosion of the sixties by many artists, notably ERIC CLAPTON who recorded RAMBLIN ON MY MIND on JOHN MAYALLs classic 1966 BLUESBREAKERS LP, and CROSS ROAD BLUES with his own power trio CREAM on the 1968 album WHEELS OF FIRE. Clapton would later record an entire disc of Johnsons songs titled, ME AND MR. JOHNSON (2004). Robert Johnsons music still expresses an intense joy in creation. So, more than an indispensable set for any blues devotee, these recordings are musical art of the highest order.