Johnny Winter - Saints & Sinners
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Free Music Review: simply superb johnny!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album, the best in studio of the great "guitar - god albino" johnny winter, is amazing....! good mix of songs ...pop...blinded by love....and funk ... .feedback.......on highway......with the rock and rool.......thirty days.....stray cat blues....riot in cell block 9.....bony maronie....
Buy it now!!!!!!!!!!!
Free Music Review: The Winter of Our Rock 'n' Roll Content.......
Hit: 5 Stars
Well well. Here we are speeding fast towards St, Metamorpho's Day (named for a distant ancestor of mine) who, as you recall, drove the negative votes out of Scotland in the 1400's. A daunting task to say the least, which still goes on to this very day. But, no matter - as long as we have music to rock by, who cares?
I got this album long ago - and believe me - if you love good, hard drivin' rock (and some slide blues) this is the one for you. Absolutely amazing. And, if you're a little short on energy - this album will boost your energy to extremes (and the louder the better).
Johnny's base is the blues, however, he turned all that into blistering riffs-lightening speed rythmn - and a gritty, homegrown soulful twang vocal that will rip all the hairs on your neck into stratospheric electricity. Don't believe me?
Right off the bat he serves notice that he is ready to take you on his journey with "Stone County". The drive of that opening drum beat with his intro lead serves you fair warning. The song kicks in every way. And Johnny is up to the task of clobbering lead on this. The song speeds like a railroad train - and you are definitely on that ride. "Blinded by Love" is more of the same but only this time, the riff becomes more terse and compact. Johnny doesn't give you overly long leads. He is more precise, clean, and moves the sections of this song with spicy approach. In essence, most of these tunes are extremely well put together. All the fat is cut off the bone. What you have here is the juiciest parts. That is what is so pleasing about his brand of rock.
"Thirty Days" is a fast rockin' rave and here Johnny gives you a rockin' rebel lead. He embellishs the Jagger/Richards tune "Stray Cat Blues" with needed frantic lead and energy which the original lacked. In fact, I like this version far better. But, wisely, he continues along that track with "Bad Luck Situation" and "Rollin' 'Cross the Country". Unless you are comatose- these songs will increase the aliveness within yourselves. Then we have the excellent "Riot in Cell Block #9" which reminds one of "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley. Rockin' on the breaks and a slide guitar which will scramble your delicate brain cells. It's o.k. Just go with it. Johnny understands. He really does.
"Hurtin' So Bad" employs horns to great effect and mixes blues and stax soul into a heartfelt redition. The age-old subject matter - losing the love of a good woman - is putty in the hands of a professional like Winter.
He then breathes new life into that oldie classic "Boney Moronie". Tumbling, tumultous, riveting- he drives this song at the speed of sound. My only complaint is that it ends too soon. On "Feedback On Highway 101" the horns and organ propel this song at a less intense groove. You can bop to it. Johnny and all the other musicians contribute to an all-encompassing sound and montage of professional interplay. Good stuff.
We then end with "Dirty" an off-the cuff- bluesy number which - at first- sounds disjointed. But no - it is only Johnny and friends winging it on the porch of that house in the country. A bluesy end to a great ride.
In conclusion - this album is a great mixture of rock and blues intensity and especially good at any hard-rock party you are planning. Fast moving tunes- appropriate leads- subtle slower moving tunes to give you a breather between the escalating roller-coaster ride. Johnny should have been given accolades for this - but for some reason - he was overlooked alot- except to those who possess vision and insight (like your beloved Metamorpho!).
So, for all you rockers out there- instead of a pot of gold for St. Metamorpho's Day you get this album instead. Let this music wash over and clover you with joy. Let this shamrock 'n' roll you into pure delight.
I guarantee - it will lucky charm you in special ways.
From the Land without Ire ----your own---Metamorpho
Free Music Review: A great album from a great guitar player
Hit: 5 Stars
One of the best works from Johnny Winter. His version of Stray Cat Blues is superb and worthies the whole CD. I recommend Saints And Sinners to everybody that likes guitar, rock and bluesFree Music Review: Why can't he do rock n' roll?!
Hit: 3 Stars
Johnny Winter has a great feeling for the blues, and he is one of the best white blues musicians you'll ever hear.
So why do almost all of his rock n' roll records end up being so frustratingly predictable and uninspired?
"Saints"' predecessor, "Still Alive And Well", was Winter's highest charting ever, a good blend of blues and rock, but "Saints"' material, which includes a Van Morrison tune, a Stones cover, and predictable versions of 1950s rock & roll oldies by Chuck Berry, Larry Williams, and Leiber and Stoller, ends up being more eclectic than original. And it's not even THAT eclectic.
Sure, Johnny Winter's playing is very competent, but it's never truly excting, and we've all heard this music a thousand times before. This music or something excactly like it.
Don't get me wrong, I like old-time rock n' roll, but Winter's too-hectic playing fails to capture whatever it was that made, say, Chuck Berry so great, and almost all of these songs just sort of pass you by, offering nothing new, nothing original, nothing truly exciting, and not even a groove deep enough to plant an appleseed.
It's not bad, really, it's just - generic.
2 3/4 stars.
Free Music Review: Not bad at all
Hit: 4 Stars
This album was released during the peak of the Edgar Winter Group's popularity and was an effort to cash in on it. However, that does not mean it is a bad album, it is pretty good. Stone County was the first single off the album and received some airplay; it is also my favorite song on the album. Their are several solid tracks on this including Thirty Days and Stray Cat Blues. All-in-all worth having, especially if you are a Johnny Winter fan.