Robert Johnson discography

A detailed listing of all known recordings by blues musician Robert Johnson. Eleven Johnson 78s were released on the Vocalion label during his lifetime, with a twelfth issued posthumously. All songs are copyrighted to Robert Johnson, and his estate.

After their initial run in the late 1930s, his recordings remained out of print until the appearance of the first Johnson album on Columbia Records in 1961, King of the Delta Blues Singers, compiled at the instigation of John H. Hammond. It contained three previously unissued tracks ("If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day", "When You Got a Good Friend" take 2, and "Traveling Riverside Blues" take 1). A sequel LP, assembling the rest of the master recordings, an unreleased second take of "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" and two additional unreleased songs (the first takes of "Phonograph Blues" and "Drunken Hearted Man") was issued in 1970 as King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II. In the UK, both albums were issued as a two-LP set by Blue Diamond Records in 1985 under the same name, King of the Delta Blues Singers. An omnibus two-CD set, The Complete Recordings, was released in 1990 containing 41 known recordings of 29 songs. Johnson's additional five credited compositions to the 24 issued on Vocalion are "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day", "When You Got a Good Friend", "Traveling Riverside Blues", "Phonograph Blues", and "Drunken Hearted Man."

On September 15, 1998, Columbia/Legacy reissued King of the Delta Blues Singers remastered for compact disc, with the second volume appearing on August 10, 2004. They reproduce the original albums, without the alternates and false starts found on the box set Complete collection. The first volume includes an alternate take of "Traveling Riverside Blues" heretofore undiscovered and previously unissued, which brings the number of known Johnson recordings to forty-two. In Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson author Tom Graves states that Johnson originally made 59 recordings that were shipped to New York. In the book he also lists several "lost" songs that were composed by Robert Johnson but not recorded by him that were recorded by others, including blues artists Johnny Shines and Robert Lockwood Jr..

Recording Date	Matrix	Song	Catalog	Release Date	Time
1936-11-23	SA 2580-1	Kind Hearted Woman Blues	Vocalion 3416	1937	2:49
1936-11-23	SA 2580-2	Kind Hearted Woman Blues	Columbia 30034	1970	2:31
1936-11-23	SA 2581-1	I Believe I'll Dust My Broom	Vocalion 3475	1937	2:56
1936-11-23	SA 2582-1	Sweet Home Chicago	Vocalion 3601	1937	2:59
1936-11-23	SA 2583-1	Ramblin' on My Mind	Vocalion 3519	1937	2:51
1936-11-23	SA 2583-2	Ramblin' on My Mind	Columbia 46222	1990	2:20
1936-11-23	SA 2584-1	When You Got a Good Friend	Columbia 46222	1990	2:37
1936-11-23	SA 2584-2	When You Got a Good Friend	Columbia 1654	1961	2:50
1936-11-23	SA 2585-1	Come On in My Kitchen	Vocalion 3563	1937	2:47
1936-11-23	SA 2585-2	Come On in My Kitchen	Columbia 46222	1990	2:35
1936-11-23	SA 2586-1	Terraplane Blues	Vocalion 3416	1937	3:00
1936-11-23	SA 2587-1	Phonograph Blues	Columbia 30034	1970	2:37
1936-11-23	SA 2587-2	Phonograph Blues	Columbia 46222	1990	2:32
1936-11-26	SA 2616-2	32-20 Blues	Vocalion 3445	1937	2:51
1936-11-27	SA 2627-1	They're Red Hot	Vocalion 3563	1937	2:56
1936-11-27	SA 2627-2	Dead Shrimp Blues	Vocalion 3475	1937	2:30
1936-11-27	SA 2629-1	Cross Road Blues	Vocalion 3519	1937	2:39
1936-11-27	SA 2629-2	Cross Road Blues	Columbia 46222	1990	2:29
1936-11-27	SA 2630-1	Walking Blues	Vocalion 3601	1939	2:28
1936-11-27	SA 2631-1	Last Fair Deal Gone Down	Vocalion 3445	1937	2:39
1936-11-27	SA 2633-1	Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)	Vocalion 4630	1939	2:50
1936-11-27	SA 2634-1	If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day	Columbia 1654	1961	2:34
1937-06-19	DAL 377-2	Stones in My Passway	Vocalion 3723	1937	2:27
1937-06-19	DAL 378-1	I'm a Steady Rollin' Man	Vocalion 3723	1937	2:35
1937-06-19	DAL 379-1	From Four Until Late	Vocalion 3623	1937	2:23
1937-06-20	DAL 394-2	Hellhound on My Trail	Vocalion 3623	1937	2:35
1937-06-20	DAL 395-2	Little Queen of Spades	Vocalion 4108	1938	2:11
1937-06-20	DAL 395-2	Little Queen of Spades	Columbia 46222	1990	2:15
1937-06-20	DAL 396-1	Malted Milk	Vocalion 3665	1937	2:17
1937-06-20	DAL 397-1	Drunken Hearted Man	Columbia 30034	1970	2:24
1937-06-20	DAL 397-2	Drunken Hearted Man	Columbia 46222	1990	2:19
1937-06-20	DAL 398-1	Me and the Devil Blues	Columbia 46222	1990	2:37
1937-06-20	DAL 398-2	Me and the Devil Blues	Vocalion 4108	1938	2:29
1937-06-20	DAL 399-1	Stop Breakin' Down Blues	Vocalion 4002	1938	2:16
1937-06-20	DAL 399-2	Stop Breakin' Down Blues	Columbia 46222	1990	2:21
1937-06-20	DAL 400-1	Traveling Riverside Blues	Columbia 1654	1961	2:47
1937-06-20	DAL 400-2	Traveling Riverside Blues	Columbia 65746	1998	2:39
1937-06-20	DAL 401-1	Honeymoon Blues	Vocalion 4002	1938	2:16
1937-06-20	DAL 402-1	Love in Vain	Columbia 46222	1990	2:28
1937-06-20	DAL 402-2	Love in Vain	Vocalion 4630	1939	2:19
1937-06-20	DAL 403-1	Milkcow's Calf Blues	Vocalion 3665	1937	2:14
1937-06-20	DAL 403-2	Milkcow's Calf Blues	Columbia 46222	1990	2:20