The Robert Johnson Songbook (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Robert Johnson Songbook
Type = Album
Artist = Peter Green Splinter Group


Released = 1998
Recorded =
Genre = Blues
Length =
Label = Snapper Music
Producer = Kenny Denton, Nigel Watson & Peter Green
Last album = Peter Green Splinter Group
(1997)
This album = The Robert Johnson Songbook
(1998)
Next album = Soho Session
(1999)

"The Robert Johnson Songbook" is an album by the British blues band the Peter Green Splinter Group, led by Peter Green. Released in 1998 (see 1998 in music), this was their second album. Green was the founder of Fleetwood Mac and a member of that group from 1967-70, before a sporadic solo career during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The album consisted entirely of songs composed by legendary blues artist Robert Johnson, and featured a guest appearance by Paul Rodgers, ex-lead vocalist of Free and Bad Company, who has lately been working with Queen.

This was the first Splinter Group album to feature Roger Cotton and Larry Tolfree, after the departure of Cozy Powell and Spike Edney.

Track listing

#"When You Got A Good Friend"
#"32-20 Blues"
#"Phonograph Blues"
#"Last Fair Deal Gone Down"
#"Stop Breakin' Down Blues"
#"Terraplane Blues"
#"Walkin' Blues"
#"Love In Vain Blues"
#"Ramblin' On My Mind"
#"Stones In My Passway"
#"Me And The Devil Blues"
#"Honeymoon Blues"
#"Kind Hearted Woman Blues"
#"I Believe I'll Dust My Broom"
#"If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day"
#"Sweet Home Chicago"

*All tracks written by Robert Johnson.

Personnel

*Peter Green - guitars, vocals
*Nigel Watson - Guitars, Vocals
*Neil Murray - Bass Guitar
*Roger Cotton - Piano
*Larry Tolfree - drums

*Paul Rodgers - Vocals on track 16
*Street Angels '98 - Backing Vocals

Production

*Recorded at KD's Studio, Acton, London
*Track 16 recorded at Lartington Hall Studios by Andrew Scarth

*Design by Tonic Communications