This week's new release recommendation is Johnny Winter: The Woodstock Experience. It's a two CD offering that packages Johnny Winter's full set at Woodstock 1969 with a remaster of Winter's first solo album, Johnny Winter.
Now I realize those of you who are non-turkeys already own a copy of Johnny Winter...
Right?
Well, this just means you'll have a copy to keep in your car. Because let's face it, we're talkin' Dallas here, Johnny's finest acoustic blues song of all time. We're talkin' Be Careful With A Fool, as well as Mean Mistreater and Good Morning Little School Girl. We're also talkin' the finest version of that great old warhorse, I'll Drown In My Own Tears, that you'll find this side of Ray Charles. Bottom line? Any CD collection worth a damn has to have two copies of Johnny Winter in it. Period.
Good as Johnny Winter is though, that isn't why you're buying Johnny Winter: The Woodstock Experience. You're buying it for the set he played at Woodstock. Johnny and the band just rip it up. And when I say rip it up, I mean rip it up big-time...
Understand that that was the first track. Johnny's just flexing his fingers at that point, OK? Getting warmed up, as it where... He goes on to tear apart Leland Mississippi Blues, Mean Town Blues and You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now, and then brings out baby brother Edgar for a three song set that includes a version of Tobacco Road that can peel paint! The set closes with Johnny roaring through Johnny B. Goode like a bat out of Parma. Despite the fact that there are now five CDs in the Bootleg Live series that showcase Johnny Winter live, this Woodstock concert is the place to start when it comes to his live work, if for no other reason than to hear him playing with Edgar.
Dennis commands you to buy Johnny Winter: The Woodstock Experience. Those who do not will forever be regarded as complete turkeys who are fit only for the sort of barbed mockery that has made me what I am on the internets.
By the way, here's the list of the Johnny Winter CDs all non-turkeys will have in their collection...
- Johnny Winter
- Second Winter
- The Progressive Blues Experiment
- Johnny Winter: The Woodstock Experience
- Live Bootleg: Vol. 1
- Live Bootleg: Vol. 2
- Live Bootleg: Vol. 3
- Live Bootleg: Vol. 4
- Live Bootleg: Vol. 5
And although this video opens with the cover to Johnny Winter, the recording itself is from The Progressive Blues Experiment...
From the pictures posted it looks like this Johnny Winter guy would do a great cover of Aerosmith's 'Dude Looks Like a Lady'.
Posted by: Simon | October 29, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Blasphemy!
Posted by: Dennis The Peasant | October 30, 2009 at 06:39 AM
DtP
If you hadn't learned of this, I thought you might want to know that PeterUK has passed away. Here's a tribute page to him. I found out about this on the JustOneMinute site.
Posted by: Barry Dauphin | November 01, 2009 at 06:41 PM