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When an international weekly magazine calls a musician "the white pope of black art", then it sounds suspiciously like charitableness towards a blues musician in his prime, whose good years are in the past. As if! In the case of Johnny Winter, the reviews of his 2011 tour were just as glowing as in his early years, when Rolling Stone magazine described the gaunt Mississippi bard as "a cross-eyed albino with long fleecy hair playing some of the gutsiest fluid blues guitar you have ever heard". Intentional or not: Winter was able to win for himself some of the 'rocker' laurels that were reserved for the young Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. But Winter let everyone know that he was only interested in the blues, gutsy, evoking Howlin' Wolf's and Muddy Waters' growling groove, yet nimble-fingered enough on the strings to conjure up astoundingly sleek garlands of sound that fit precisely into each bar of music.Winter remains pretty cool when people attempt to identify personal afflictions in his music: -»When I play blues, I feel good-« he stated recently to a journalist. That the same goes for over 40 years ago is substantiated by both sides of this debut album..
A brilliant Columbia debut for a brilliant Texas blues guitarist re-released on vinyl. Back in the 1990s, while in my early 20s, I became more interested in blues and jazz and began to seek out the legends of those genres. In the blues category I happened upon the 1977 album "Hard Again" by Muddy Waters and I've never looked back. That album in particular featured, as producer and guitarist, Mr. John Dawson Winter III and I then began to actively seek out more of his albums and those of his younger brother Edgar. I originally bought this album on CD as part of the Woodstock Experience which included Johnny's performance at the legendary music festival that was never featured in the documentary due to poor advice he received from his manager at the time. When I saw that this album was being released on vinyl, I just had to purchase it in order to hear that sweet analogue sound. The album is housed in a gatefold cover which was not original to it but added to allow Mr. Winter to reminisce about the making of the record. The record itself is housed in a poly inner sleeve to keep it protected between plays. The record feels nice and heavy when I place it on the platter of my turntable and the sound is beautiful. I have a Rotel pre-amp/amplifier with Bowers and Wilkins tower speakers and a Music Hall MMF-5 turntable and the combination transported me back to feeling as if Johnny and his band, along with guests like Willie Dixon, were in my living room performing. I've even enjoyed the warm sound of this album with some cheap Panasonic headphones. I highly recommend this record for any audiophile who is new to the blues genre as an introduction to it and to Johnny Winter's music. I only wish that his Woodstock performance would one day get a release on vinyl in the near fuJohnny Winter (180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl/Anniversary Limited Edition)ture.
