Johnny Winter - Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two
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Artist: Johnny WinterEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Friday Music
Soundtracks:
- Black Cat Bone
- Parchman Farm
- Rock Me Baby
- Mississippi Blues
- Crossroads
- Red House (Bonus Live Recording)
Music reviews of Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two
Music Review: Even better than volume one. And volume one was great!
Rating: 5 Stars
If you felt that there were a few too many rock n' roll numbers taking up space on Johnny Winter's first "Live Bootleg" album, you'll be happy to find that volume two is almost pure blues. And even if you didn't, you should still enjoy this magnificent display of first-class blues guitar playing.
Johnny Winter fronts his late-70s-early-80s power trio on these six artist-approved selections...yeah, a 54 minute-CD of compiled performances is a bit of a downer, I know, but it's better than having these wonderful recordings sitting in a vault somewhere. And the record company makes more money this way, too...
Anyway. The disc is produced by Winter himself, and the fidelity is generally very good, although the opener, a scorching, Elmore James-like "Black Cat Bone", sounds a bit fuzzy. But things clear up right after that, with a tough, riff-driven "Parchman Farm" burning with several fiery but tasteful solos. And that one is followed by a swaggering, hard rock-inspired rendition of the classic blues "Rock Me, Baby" (credited to B.B. King, although I doubt if that's were it originated to begin with). Winter's gruff, throaty vocals are strong and confident, and then comes a grand, fifteen-minute "Mississipi Blues", all gritty electric slide guitar and some terrific amplified harmonica played by bassist Jon Paris, and finally the drums enter at the 5½ minute mark. You'd think that a fifteen-minute blues number would wear out its welcome halfway through, but in this case you'd be wrong!
Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" opens with a powerful, up-tempo solo, and thunders ahead driven by a huge riff which Winter expands and elaborates on along the way, and the disc finally winds down with a slow, grinding, rumbling cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Red House" sizzling with magnificent fills and solos. No meaningless shredding or showy finger-tapping here (well, almost)...just heavy blues guitar as sharp as shards of broken glass.
The "Live Bootleg"-series just keeps getting better, and every Johnny Winter-fan, with the possible exception of those who only like "Rock n' Roll Hoochie Coo", ought to pick this one up right away. It's a treat!
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