The sound improvement between 1990's Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings and 2011's The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection cannot be minimized. Seth Winner's engineering and ...

There's something haunting about Robert Johnson's voice. The blues singer-guitarist sounds at once cock-sure and frightened, giving his recordings the feel of both perspiration and a cold sweat. As I ...

What subsequent more-complete collections of Johnson's music have made clear, including the recent "Robert Johnson: The Centennial Collection" (Columbia Legacy), is that he was anything but a ...