Johnny Winter - Second Winter
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Artist: Johnny WinterEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-03-01
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Memory Pain
- I'm Not Sure
- The Good Love
- Slippin' and Slidin'
- Miss Ann
- Johnny B. Goode
- Highway 61 Revisited
- I Love Everybody
- Hustled Down in Texas
- I Hate Everybody
- Fast Life Rider [#][*]
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Music Review: What kind of Winter do you prefer?
Rating: 4 Stars
Do you like Johnny Winter when he is playing screaming, high-octane covers of old rock n' roll-standarts, or dabbling in psychedelia? Or when his music is deeply submerged in the blues, slide rattling against the fretboard of his National guitar?
Well, if you prefer the first kind of Winter, you are in for a treat.
"Second Winter" was, unsurprisingly, Johnny Winter's second album for Columbia Records. It came out in 1969, and it is one of his most stylistically diverse offerings, and probably his most idiosyncratic as well.
It is not a pure blues album, nor a rock n' roll record, although there is plenty of blues here, and a solid helping of rock n' roll as well...it is sort of psychedelic blues-rock record which includes shades of funk, hard rock, and a little bit of jazz.
Winter is backed by his usual power trio of Tommy Shannon and John "Red" Turner, plus brother Edgar Winter on piano, organ, sax, and the occational harpsichord (!). And I'll come right out and say that I didn't like this album very much when I first heard it maybe ten years ago. I had only heard a couple of Johnny Winter's records before, and those had been almost pure blues, so this odd, eclectic mix of blues, "old time rock n' roll", and psychedelia wasn't really to my liking. I've always disliked psychedelia, no matter who plays it.
But "Second Winter" has grown on me to some extend. It will never be among my favourite Johnny Winter-albums, that honour belongs to "White, Hot and Blue" and the phenomenal "Live Bootleg"-series, but it does have its moments, including the gritty opener, a powerful cover of Curtis Mayfield's "Memory Pain".
To me, Johnny Winter is at his best when he is playing the blues, and even as great as he is as both a singer and a guitarist, his covers of early rock n' roll standards are just not QUITE as mesmerizing. But, having said that, I'll be the first to admit that his take on Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" really rocks! The piano boogie of "Slippin' and Slidin'" is generic but fun, and Edgar Winter is a terrific R&B piano player. He also contributes mightily to the swaggering "Miss Ann" (originally a Little Richard-tune), this time playing the sax, and Winter rips through one of the most fiery Bob Dylan-covers you'll ever hear on the classic "Highway 61 Revisited". I'm a really big fan of the aforementioned "Bootleg"-series, but this is still the best version of this song I've ever heard from Johnny Winter.
The heavy blues "I Love Everybody" with its screaming, overdriven guitar attack is another highlight, and its jazzy, horn-laden sister-track "I Hate Everybody", sort of a frenetic jump-blues, is worth a listen as well. I don't think I'll ever learn to love the over-produced psychedelia of songs like "I'm Not Sure" and the pointless, over-long "Fast Life Rider", however. Give me some blues instead.
So, just to sum up, this, to me, is 3 1/2 stars. But to many people, who like a more energetic, up-tempo and not necessarily too bluesy kind of Winter, this'll be a clean five stars, I'm sure. It all depends on what kind of Winter you like.
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Description of Second Winter
In 1969, with several LP's already under his belt in a short time, Johnny Winter headed to Nashville and recorded what many believe to be one of his finest albums with Second Winter.This classic LP features the original power quartet line-up of Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, Tommy Shannon & Uncle John Turner.It is now with great pleasure to announce the continuing Johnny Winter 180 Gram Series with his legendary Second Winter LP on Friday Music. Mastered from the original Columbia tapes by Joe Reagoso & Kevin Gray at RTI. Includes "Johnny B Goode", "Highway 61", "Miss Ann" & "Fast Life Rider".Blues CDs
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