![]() ![]() Although I was too young to see this band, my favorite album (by Johnny) to this day is Johnny Winter And Live. The best shows I saw Johnny do live were in 1975 (Captured Live from Oakland) and 1976 (Winterland). The early 1970 show on the deluxe Second Winter is cool also, not to mention the Woodstock reocrding. I have been waiting for a full show from an earlier era. I have been disappointed with the Johnny Winter Bootleg series because most of the tracks on all six volumes are from his later periods (after 1976). I still liked Johnny during his mostly blues 1977 and beyond, but not as much, even live. Johnny Winter was my favorite guitarist from 1973 to 1976. "This CD is very hot and just what I have been waiting for. Collectors' Choice delivers this disc in a digipack with a four-panel booklet that includes knowledgeable liner notes by Richie Unterberger. Those who latched onto Rick Derringer during his pop-rock days with Edgar Winter and subsequent solo career will be floored by the fire in his blues playing. The band's studio debut is represented by two tracks, the extended solos and jams stretch to their full post-psychedelic ballroom length, and covers of Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" and Muddy Waters' "Rollin' and Tumblin'" recount some of Johnny Winter's earlier recordings. These are the live chapters of Winter's post-Woodstock band that were left out of the 1971 telling. Those who've longed to hear the rest of the band's early set list are in for a treat. Unfortunately, it's the only slow number in the set. The twenty-two minute "It's My Own Fault" is low and slow, providing more of the emotional shades Winter could bring to both his guitar playing and singing. ![]() This disc opens with a pair of blues on which Winter takes incendiary, extended solos, and "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" is played harder than Derringer's later hit single. Another difference is that this 67-minute set forgoes the `50s rock covers that dominated the 1971 release. The 1971 album Live Johnny Winter And documented the same line-up, repeating "Good Morning Little School Girl" (with improved fidelity here) while trimming "It's My Own Fault" and "Mean Town Blues" to half the length of these extended Fillmore jams. The set includes only two tunes from their then-new album (Winter's "Guess I'll Go Away" and Derringer's "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo"), with the remaining titles drawn from Winter's two previous albums. That group recorded under the name "Johnny Winter And," and with Bobby Caldwell replacing Zehringer, broke in their self-titled debut album with this 1970 set at New York City's Fillmore East. His set at Woodstock, which has only recently been released in full, was a star-making turn, and after two studio albums for Columbia he formed a new quartet with members of the recently disbanded McCoys: Rick Derringer, Randy Jo Hobbs and Derringer's brother (performing under the original family name), Randy Zehringer. "Johnny Winter has always been a potent stage performer, as documented on numerous live recordings. ![]()
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