After years of being out of stock, all Robert Johnson songs are easily available nowadays on many albums. The best of them is "The Complete Recordings" box. The name is just a little bit misleading, though - it contains all Robert Johnson recordings but one, an alternate take of brilliant "Traveling Riverside Blues". Allmusic.com critic Thomas Ward wrote: "the song is one of the undoubted masterpieces of Robert Johnson’s recorded legacy and one of the most poetic ones". It was re-recorded by many artists, for example Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Led Zeppelin.
"Traveling Riverside Blues" alternate take clocks at 2:39. It was recorded in 1937 and first officialy released in 1998.
You can get the missing track o'er here. :)
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