Somehow feeling creates its own time and energy. When we finished this album in Nashville, the one thing Johnny felt about it was that it was exactly what he had hoped for. They are part of the good feelings I have about Johnny Winter. And they help Johnny play the music he wants to play. They had given up good-paying gigs in order to play the music they felt was best. Their apartment consisted of the living-room floor of a friend’s house. Nine months after their group had been formed. So much so that when I first met them in Texas. Tommy Shannon and “Uncle” John Turner are the other members of Johnny’s group.
And it is still the feeling that brings them together. Today they all run into each other again. The present fame was not the common bind. Somehow, even then, these people gravitated together. And it was several years ago that he played with B. Hanging out with Michael Bloomfield at his Fickle Pickle coffeehouse. Johnny’s been into blues since he was eleven. Johnny Winter’s first album has also been released as a limited edition on a vinyl 180 grams edition. The Johnny Winter “Black Album” has been re-issued as “The First Album Johnny Winter” Carrie Hossel, Peggy Bowers, Elsie Senter – background vocals.“Uncle” John Turner – Drums, percussion.Musicians on Johnny Winter’s black album are: His uncompromising completely mythical and romantic fascination with the music was propulsive and profound.Ī listen to “Leland Mississippi Blues,” or the strolling tough National Steel blues of “If You’ve Got A Friend,” give as complete a portrait as is necessary of a man who not only came out of the Texas blues tradition, but extended the whole Southern legacy and brought it deep into mainstream American culture while employing and paying homage to its creators-Willie Dixon plays bass on this record! Containing five bonus tracks, this is one of the most welcome reissues in the blues canon to come down the pipe in quite a while, and if there is one Johnny Winter recording to own, it should be this one. Whether it was the stinging raucous Delta music as played acoustically on “Dallas,” or his savage electric attack, on “Mean Mistreater,” “Be Careful With a Fool,” or on Good Mornin’ Little Schoolgirl’-complete with horns and piano by brother Edgar-Winter’s blues were easily separated from the masses. On this recording and Second Winter Johnny played the blues pure and simple.
His guitar tone was like barbed wire dipped in lighter fluid and was as precise as a stiletto. He approached rock and roll from the heart of the blues. Unlike his most of his peers who purposefully wed blues to rock that made it palatable to pop audiences, Winter’s approach to the blues was pure and savage. Sony Legacy’s remastered and expanded reissue of Johnny Winter’s self-produced debut album for Columbia records-recorded in 1969-is nothing short of a revelation. : Sony will rerelease the album “Johnny Winter” on CD titled: “Johnny Winter Expanded Edition” with the previously unreleased recordings: “Country Girl”, “Dallas”, “Two Steps From The Blues”. This album is a “Must Have” for any blues music fan Johnny Winter’s first official album aka the Black Album is released by CBS and scores Billboard ranking 24 on.
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