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Music CD - Johnny Winter: Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two
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Music CD: Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two
Artist: Johnny Winter
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $9.61
Your Save: $ 5.37 ( 36% )
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Manufacturer: Friday Music
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Tracks:
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1. Black Cat Bone
2. Parchman Farm
3. Rock Me Baby
4. Mississippi Blues
5. Crossroads
6. Red House (Bonus Live Recording)
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0829421108320
Format: Live
Label: Friday Music
Manufacturer: Friday Music
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Friday Music
Release Date: 2008-03-04
Studio: Friday Music
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Great Blues for JW fans
Comment: This is great. I'm not sure that this great guitarist will be with us for too many more years. Lyrics are hard to understand on track 1, but the music is top notch and the guitar playing is top of the line throughout this CD. I like "live" stuff and these tracks are all worthy additions to my collection. I recommend this for Johnny Winter, Bluesman fans.
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Summary: Johnny Almighty
Comment: This is bias review. If and when Live Bootleg Series, Volume 982 comes out, I will buy it. Although the fidelity of the recordings are not great, I have resorted to turning up the volume...and been quite pleased. For once and for all, these recording clearly put JW on the top shelf of rock guitarist, on par with Jimi, Page, and Clapton. The sad fact is that this global recognition will never come true. Not to worry, JW is joining a long list of fellow bluesmen that have been grossly overlooked by the industry. How could he be a true bluesman if this were not true? Final comment: when the space aliens come to earth we should play this album and if they don't instantly love it, send them packing....they've got no soul.
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Summary: STILL ALIVE AND WELL (AFTER ALL THESE YEARS)
Comment: GREAT SONGS, GREAT BLUES, GREAT GUITAR PLAYING, JOHNNY WINTER NEVER SOUNDED BETTER. THIS IS JUST A GREAT CD. I DON'T HAVE VOLUME ONE BUT I AM SURE GOING TO GO GET IT AFTER HEARING VOLUME 2. NOT ONE BAD CUT ON THIS ALBUM. FUNNY THING, I ONCE MET JOHNNY WINTER, EDGAR WINTER, AND RICK DERRINGER IN AN ELEVATOR IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN AROUND 1973 OR 1974 (I WAS 14 OR 15 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, MAN WAS I BLOWN AWAY!). I WILL NEVER FORGET WALKING INTO AND OUT OF THAT ELEVATOR FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!
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Summary: seven stars...and three
Comment: the music? c'mon it's mr. Winter, who else like him? Unfortunately, the sound is terribly...MONO. Sorry guys, if you're looking for historical recordings this is a terrific one, but if you like your musical history at least with a modest stereo and decent sound, stay away. Seven stars for johnny, the 3 stars are for whoever never mentioned that MONO detail in the cd cover.
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Summary: America owns the blues
Comment: The first time I heard Johnny Winter was in 1978 with a bong and a friend, and the album was a bootleg recorded on a cassette. We didn't know until the end who it was, but when we did, Johnny Winter became an icon. This album starts off with poor vocals on the first track, but the guitar takes off and never comes down. The vocals catch up, but by then, the band is ripping through the speakers like a freight train. Johnny puts the younger guys to shame. The world can hate us, but our music will rock us.
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Editorial Reviews:
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I always knew I d make it, Johnny Winter, cigarette dangling from his lips, told me after a gig one night in 2007 as his tour bus rolled on through the darkness of rural Virginia. I never doubted it. I always knew that playing music was what I was meant to do, and I never even thought about doing anything else.
Live Bootleg Series Volume II the second installment in Friday Music s artist-approved releases displays the same unshakable confidence that made Johnny Winter one of the 20th century s most important and influential guitarists. It also illuminates the native Texan s lifelong love affair with the blues, not to mention his absolute mastery of the guitar.
Johnny s own searing Black Cat Bone, a tune he first recorded for 1969 s The Progressive Blues Experiment, kicks things off, and it s followed by a true blues story: a tale of persecution, the Mose Allison-penned Parchman Farm, which Johnny transforms into a heavy, groove-laden rocker.
Up next is Rock Me Baby, a hit for B.B. King. To this day, Johnny fondly recalls the night in 1962 in his native Beaumont when B.B., playing a local blues club called The Raven, hesitantly allowed a young Johnny Winter after first checking to see if he had a union card to sit in with his band. (Johnny did, in fact, take the stage that night, and he earned a standing ovation for his efforts.) This riff-heavy reading of B.B. s classic is vintage Johnny, sporting his deep-throated growl and soaring, overdriven blues-rock guitar lines.
An undeniable highlight of this collection is the jaw-dropping, 15-minute reading of Willie Brown s Mississippi Blues. Alongside a wailing harmonica, Johnny expertly builds the tune from the bottom up, each turnaround giving way to yet another verse that seems to up the ante even more. By the time the tune concludes its sixth minute and the entire band kicks in, the guitar lines have become simply torrid and there s still a lot more ahead. It sets the table beautifully for what comes next, Johnny s incendiary take on Robert Johnson s Crossroads, which rocks firmly in the spirit of Cream. Closing this collection is a simply unforgettable Red House, in which Winter dedicates the tune to Al Hendrix in memory of his late son Jimi.
Johnny Winter s blues have always run deep. The disc you hold in your hands is proof.
.........liner notes by Sean McDevitt
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