Johnny Winter - Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two
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Artist: Johnny WinterEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2008-03-04
Music Label: Friday Music
Soundtracks:
- Black Cat Bone
- Parchman Farm
- Rock Me Baby
- Mississippi Blues
- Crossroads
- Red House (Bonus Live Recording)
Free Music Notes for Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two
Free Music Review: Even better than volume one. And volume one was great!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you felt that there were a few too many rock n' roll numbers taking up space on Johnny Winter's first "Live Bootleg" album, you'll be happy to find that volume two is almost pure blues. And even if you didn't, you should still enjoy this magnificent display of first-class blues guitar playing.
Johnny Winter fronts his late-70s-early-80s power trio on these six artist-approved selections...yeah, a 54 minute-CD of compiled performances is a bit of a downer, I know, but it's better than having these wonderful recordings sitting in a vault somewhere. And the record company makes more money this way, too...
Anyway. The disc is produced by Winter himself, and the fidelity is generally very good, although the opener, a scorching, Elmore James-like "Black Cat Bone", sounds a bit fuzzy. But things clear up right after that, with a tough, riff-driven "Parchman Farm" burning with several fiery but tasteful solos. And that one is followed by a swaggering, hard rock-inspired rendition of the classic blues "Rock Me, Baby" (credited to B.B. King, although I doubt if that's were it originated to begin with). Winter's gruff, throaty vocals are strong and confident, and then comes a grand, fifteen-minute "Mississipi Blues", all gritty electric slide guitar and some terrific amplified harmonica played by bassist Jon Paris, and finally the drums enter at the 5? minute mark. You'd think that a fifteen-minute blues number would wear out its welcome halfway through, but in this case you'd be wrong!
Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" opens with a powerful, up-tempo solo, and thunders ahead driven by a huge riff which Winter expands and elaborates on along the way, and the disc finally winds down with a slow, grinding, rumbling cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Red House" sizzling with magnificent fills and solos. No meaningless shredding or showy finger-tapping here (well, almost)...just heavy blues guitar as sharp as shards of broken glass.
The "Live Bootleg"-series just keeps getting better, and every Johnny Winter-fan, with the possible exception of those who only like "Rock n' Roll Hoochie Coo", ought to pick this one up right away. It's a treat!
Live Bootleg Series, Volume Two Poster
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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