Name: Johnny Winter [Expanded] [Remaster]
Brand: Sony Bmg Music Entertainment
SKU: 724880
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Johnny Winter [Expanded] [Remaster]

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Album: Johnny Winter [Expanded] [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I'm Yours and I'm Hers
2)	Be Careful With a Fool
3)	Dallas
4)	Mean Mistreater
5)	Leland Mississippi Blues
6)	Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
7)	When You Got a Good Friend
8)	I'll Drown in My Own Tears
9)	Back Door Friend
10)	Country Girl - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
11)	Dallas (With Band) - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
12)	Two Steps from the Blues - (previously unreleased, bonus track)

Album: Johnny Winter [Expanded] [Remaster]
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I'm Yours and I'm Hers
2)	Be Careful With a Fool
3)	Dallas
4)	Mean Mistreater
5)	Leland Mississippi Blues
6)	Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
7)	When You Got a Good Friend
8)	I'll Drown in My Own Tears
9)	Back Door Friend
10)	Country Girl - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
11)	Dallas (With Band) - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
12)	Two Steps from the Blues - (previously unreleased, bonus track)

Performer Notes

Also available in a 3-pack with SECOND WINTER and CAPTURED LIVE.
Personnel: Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar, slide guitar, harmonica); Johnny Winter; Big Walter Horton (harmonica); Albert Wynn Butler (tenor saxophone); Norman Ray (baritone saxophone); Karl Garin (trumpet); Peggy Bowers, Elsie Senter, Carrie Hossell (background vocals); Edgar Winter (alto saxophone, piano); Willie Dixon (acoustic bass); Tommy Shannon (electric bass); John Turner .
Audio Mixer: Thom Cadley.
Liner Note Author: Steven Paul .
Recording information: Nashville, TN (02/??/1969-03/05/1969); San Francisco, CA (02/??/1969-03/05/1969).
Photographers: Hiro ; Eddie Kramer; Sandy Speiser.
Among white blues singers of the 1960s, there were some who studied the music so intently they amazed even the genre's creators with their technical mastery. A select few, however, seemed to be born oozing authenticity, sounding just as soulful as the greatest black bluesmen while forging a completely new sound. Johnny Winter belonged in the second category. A long-haired hippie albino, he astounded initially skeptical listeners with his Howlin' Wolf-like vocals and wild Johnny Guitar Watson-esque guitar stylings. THE WOODSTOCK EXPERIENCE showcases Winter's first taste of national exposure, first with his 1969 self-titled debut album, and then with his set at the Woodstock festival later the same year. The latter recording is the revelation here--a tornado of raging slide guitar and shouted vocals that sounds as if a late night Lone Star State roadhouse gig has been magically transported to the upstate New York farm. With several tracks clocking in at over 10 minutes ("Mean Town Blues," a hellacious Edgar Winter-led jam on "Tobacco Road"), the album showcases Johnny at his freest and most explosive.

Professional Reviews

Q (5/97, p.144) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...Winter's vocals rasp with a raw edge that matches his cranium-scooping guitar sound...Before the '70s, Winter was burrowing beneath some deep blues roots."

Down Beat (p.68) - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "His lines, even the speediest and the wildest, have a sense of order. Back then, Winter could really sing, too..."