Johnny Winter - The Progressive Blues Experiment
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Artist: Johnny WinterEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Rollin' and Tumblin'
- Tribute to Muddy
- I Got Love If You Want It
- Bad Luck and Trouble
- Help Me
- Mean Town Blues
- Broke Down Engine
- Black Cat Bone
- It's My Own Fault
- Forty-Four
Music reviews of The Progressive Blues Experiment
Music Review: Excellet
Rating: 4 Stars
Not all blues is the same. Listen to blues up to around 1967, and it was all recorded live and with vaccuum tubes. Muddy, the Wolf, the whole gang recorded those sides, and the songs are classics, no debate.
But as rock grew: transisters replaced tubes and electric basses ursurped uprights. The musicans got better--don't forget, everyone was trying to outdue one another, and aspire to the standards set by the mighty Beatles. This was not fragmented. Everyone was chasing the shooting star.
Don't be fooled by the title of this album. Johnny Winter did not take the blues here and make Progressive Blues Experiment some mutated jazz suite or psychadelic 12-bar treusure hunt. "Progressive," no, "Experment," NOT! That was marketing for the era.
But fantastic, well recorded Chicago blues is what we have here, and trust me, it is all you need. Winter and his band made some of the meanist, nastiest, straight whiskey blues here, and you'll want to drink every drop.
This stuff has great live ehcho that bursts from the speakers. Winter's runs are fluid as they are gritty, and grit we have here in surplus. Red Turner--could you pray for a better name of a bluesman?--has rock solid drumming.
Tommy Shannon may be the best bassist in straight blues. He has a heavy, Fender Percision sound which provides all the bottom. He pops, he sides, he drags sustained notes across the music, with the ressonence of the best players. With all this, he still keeps his work basic, making something both completely simple and complently elegant.
There is a reason Stevie Ray Vaughn Hired Shannon, and Double Trouble may have technically been the best blues band ever.
This is pretty close.
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