Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000024UO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #135,381 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I'm Yours and I'm Hers

2. Be Careful with a Fool

3. Dallas

4. Mean Mistreater

5. Leland Mississippi Blues

6. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

7. When You Got a Good Friend

8. I'll Drown in My Tears

9. Back Door Friend

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars He Went From Good To Great With This One, April 30, 2001

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BluesDuke "A sacred cow is worth but one thin... (Las Vegas, Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny Winter (Audio CD)

How impressive was Johnny Winter just before he cut this album, his Columbia debut? Columbia's then-president, Clive Davis, shelled out a then-record.... bonus to sign the gangling albino with the slick fingers and the hotrod blues. Small wonder Imperial Records couldn't wait to get the set Winter and his then-rhythm section (future Double Trouble bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Uncle John Turner) had just finished laying down, the remarkable "Progressive Blues Experiment," out onto the racks at about the same time.

Winter opened up the industry's eyes in the first place when friend and fan Mike Bloomfield urged him onstage at the Fillmore East during a SuperSession show with Al Kooper; Winter played for about fifteen minutes and flattened the place cold. His Columbia debut gives you ample enough reason why, but it was way far more than just the randiest bloozeguitar jerkoff of the year - this guy was going deeper than the average string strangler.

He doesn't even have a guitar in his hands, for example, when he delivers a very soulful cover of Ray Charles's "I'll Drown In My Own Tears," and he's one Texan who had the Chicago blues esthetic down cold, the evidence here being "Mean Mistreater," which features two titans of the Chicago style, bassist Willie Dixon and harmonica virtuoso (when he kept himself straight, anyway) Big Walter Horton. And when he switches to acoustic resonator guitar for his own "Dallas," a skippy-whippy piece which pays a debt to Texas legend Blind Lemon Jefferson, Winter's just as much in his element as when he's rat-racing the electric fretboard. Likewise with his cover of Robert Johnson's "When You Got A Good Friend," his guitar playing simpler but deeper, and his vocal at once reverent and soulful.

Yet when he does rat-race it, he's not just spraying fast and loose with no direction home. Those arpeggiated runs and machine-gun licks are so tightly controlled some accused Winter of scripting himself only too cleverly by half. Not so, though you might well understand why a lot of people didn't quite know what hit them when hearing "I'm Yours and I'm Hers" and "Be Careful With A Fool," the former his own composition, the latter a once-obscured B.B. King number. Winter was no Johnny-come-lately, and not just because he'd slogged the Southwest blues bars for almost half his young life to this point, either. He proved it on his next Columbia issue, in spades...

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Johnny's Best CD, November 18, 1998

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political idiot (california) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Johnny Winter (Audio CD)

While "Progressive Blues Experiment," "Nothin But..." and "Let me In" are all excellent blues CDs, his first for Columbia is the best. With an allstar band including Willie Dixon -b, and Walter Horton -hca, and brother Edgar -p, Johnny lays down some serious real blues on this one. "Dallas" is the very best I have heard in the Robert Johnson vein. "Be Careful With A Fool" is amazing and "I'll Drown In My Tears" gets at least five repeat plays every time I put it on. If there is a list of essential blues albums, this one most definately must be on it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Seminal Blues Record by a Blues Master, March 24, 2000

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M. S. Ulbricht "BomboMon" (The Great Northwest, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Johnny Winter (Audio CD)

Johnny Winter is an amazing musician. This record shows that not only in Johnny an incredible guitarist, but also knows his way around the Blues. Johnny is the only white musician who is in the Blues Hall of Fame. This is a must have for any music collection. It is a seminal Blues Recording, and is right up there with other great Blues records, such as John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton. Every cut is very good, but I'll guarantee that just one listen to Be Careful With A Fool will transform you into a Johnny Winter fan for life. Go on and buy this fantastic piece of work. You won't regret it; in fact you'll be glad you did.