True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story

True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story

by Johnny Winter
True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story

True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story

by Johnny Winter

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Overview

There has always been more to the Johnny Winter story than meets the eye, and if stepping into the role of a whirlwind albino electric blues guitar player from Texas with a brilliant slide style was the very role he was born to fill, he took a while to get there. For starters, he was born in Mississippi, which might explain something, and then grew up in Texas, where he played clarinet before switching over to guitar at the age of 11. Early on he played country before discovering the blues, and realizing there was no money and little future in playing the blues, he turned to studio pop in the early '60s. Times change, though, and by the end of that decade Winter had returned to the blues, where being an amazing electric guitar player with a roaring voice brought him his true calling. That's where this four-disc, 56-track box set picks up the story, the first such set to span the commercial and in-the-public-eye portion of Winter's career, beginning in 1968 and running all the way through to his Roots album, which was released in 2011, deftly drawing on some 27 albums from various labels, including Liberty/Imperial, Columbia, Blue Sky/Epic, Alligator, Point Blank/Virgin, Friday Music, Collectors' Choice Music, Megaforce, and Legacy. It's an impressive catalog of blistering slide runs and manic, propulsive blues shuffles, stomps, and boogies, all delivered with Winter's roar of a voice. Winter's career has made him nothing short of a monument, really, in the postmodern blues world, an iconic player who could take a song like Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" (included here) and make it his own, turning out what is perhaps the definitive version of it in much the same manner that Jimi Hendrix did with Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." It's an apt comparison, really, because although Winter never quite had the theatric flair that Hendrix had (one can't imagine Winter burning a guitar on-stage, for instance), he may have been just as responsible for the idea of modern power blues, and certainly no one has done it longer or done it any better than Johnny Winter. This box set presents a huge slab of that legacy. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date: 02/25/2014
Label: Columbia / Legacy
UPC: 0888837408523
Rank: 94632

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Bad Luck and Trouble
  2. Mean Town Blues
  3. Mike Bloomfield's Introduction of Johnny Winter [Live at the Fillmore East]
  4. It's My Own Fault [Live at the Fillmore East]
  5. I'm Yours and I'm Hers
  6. Mean Mistreater
  7. Dallas
  8. Be Careful with a Fool
  9. Leland Mississippi Blues [Live at Woodstock]
  10. Memory Pain
  11. Highway 61 Revisited
  12. Miss Ann
  13. Hustled Down in Texas
  14. Black Cat Bone [Live at the Royal Albert Hall]
  15. Johnny B. Goode [Live at the Royal Albert Hall]

Disc 2

  1. Eyesight to the Blind [Live at Atlanta Pop]
  2. Johnny Winter's Intro [Live at Atlanta Pop]
  3. Prodigal Son [Live at Atlanta Pop]
  4. Mean Mistreator [Live at Atlanta Pop]
  5. Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
  6. Guess I'll Go Away
  7. On the Limb
  8. It's My Own Fault
  9. Jumpin' Jack Flash
  10. Good Morning Little School Girl [Live at the Fillmore East]
  11. Mean Town Blues [Live at the Fillmore East]

Disc 3

  1. Still Alive and Well
  2. Rock Me Baby
  3. Rock & Roll
  4. Rollin' 'Cross the Country
  5. Hurtin' So Bad
  6. Bad Luck Situation
  7. Self Destructive Blues
  8. Sweet Papa John
  9. Rock & Roll People
  10. Harlem Shuffle
  11. Bony Maronie
  12. Roll With Me
  13. Tired of Tryin'
  14. TV Mama
  15. Walkin' Thru the Park
  16. I Done Got Over it

Disc 4

  1. One Step at a Time
  2. Honest I Do
  3. Nickel Blues
  4. Talk Is Cheap
  5. Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
  6. Bon Ton Roulet
  7. Don't Take Advantage of Me
  8. Master Mechanic
  9. Mojo Boogie
  10. Stranger Blues
  11. Illustrated Man
  12. Hard Way
  13. Highway 61 Revisited [Live at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration]
  14. Maybellene
  15. Dust My Broom

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Johnny Winter   Primary Artist,Bass,Harp,Drums,Guitar,Vocals,Mandolin,Harmonica,Slide Guitar,Guitar (Electric),National Steel Guitar
Gene Barge   Sax (Tenor)
Casey Jones   Drums
Derek Trucks   Slide Guitar,Featured Artist
Paul Nelson   Guitar
Dan Hartman   Vocals (Background),Bass,Piano,Guitar
Chuck Ruff   Drums
Steve Cropper   Guitar
Tom Compton   Drums
Booker T. Jones   Organ
Charles Calmese   Bass (Electric)
G.E. Smith   Guitar
Vito Luizzi   Drums
Richard Hughes   Drums,Percussion,Handclapping
Randy Hobbs   Bass,Vocals
Jon Paris   Bass,Harmonica
Jim Keltner   Drums
Bobby Torello   Drums
Michael Bloomfield   Guitar
Mike DiMeo   Piano
Anton Fig   Drums
Willie Dixon   Bass (Acoustic),Featured Artist
Floyd Radford   Guitar,Guitar (Rhythm)
Jim Exum   Trombone
"Uncle" John Turner   Drums,Percussion
Johnny Cresci   Drums
Bobby Caldwell   Drums
Jeff Ganz   Bass
Scott Spray   Bass
Pat Ramsey   Harp
Terry Ogolini   Sax (Tenor)
Don Tenuto   Trumpet
Edgar Winter   Drums,Organ,Piano,Vocals,Keyboards,Saxophone,Sax (Alto),Tack Piano,Arp Strings,Featured Artist,Vocals (Background)
Donald "Duck" Dunn   Bass
Paul Harris   Piano
Big Walter Horton   Harp,Featured Artist
Ken Saydak   Piano
Tom Strohman   Saxophone
James Cotton   Harp,Featured Artist
Dr. John   Piano,Featured Artist
Vince Gill   Guitar,Featured Artist
Lew Del Gatto   Sax (Tenor)
Johnny B. Gayden   Bass
Rick Derringer   Guitar,Vocals,Vocals (Background)
Randy Brecker   Trumpet
Jerry Jemmott   Bass
Bob Margolin   Guitar (Electric)
Pinetop Perkins   Piano
Randy Jo Hobbs   Bass,Percussion,Handclapping
Randy Z   Drums
Al Kooper   Organ
Steve Eisen   Sax (Baritone)
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith   Drums
Muddy Waters   Guitar,Vocals,Featured Artist
Tommy Shannon   Bass,Bass (Electric)
Pat Rush   Guitar
I.P. Sweat   Bass

Technical Credits

Steve Paul   Advisor,Direction
Bob Minkin   Photography
Jerry Darvin   Photography
Tara Master   Project Manager
Paul Nelson   Producer,Management,Executive Producer
Mark Temme   Photography
Dan Hartman   Composer
Dave Still   Engineer,Production Advisor
Darren Salmieri   A&R
Big Bill Broonzy   Composer
Keith Richards   Composer
Brad Tolinski   Liner Notes
Urve Kuusik   Photography
Norman Seeff   Photography
Ebet Roberts   Photography
Chuck Pulin   Photography
Robert Altman   Photography
Federico Ruiz   Design,Art Direction
Steve Berkowitz   Producer
Robert Knight   Photography
Jim Marshall   Photography
Don Hunstein   Photography
Art Maillett   Photography
Johnny Winter   Composer,Producer
Dick Shurman   Producer
Robert Johnson   Composer
Mick Jagger   Composer
Bruce Iglauer   Producer
A.D. Prestage   Composer
Richard Penniman   Composer
Susan Winter   Photography
Amalie R. Rothschild   Photography
Paul Natkin   Photography
Jan Persson   Photography
Elliott Landy   Photography
Marvin Devonish   Production Assistant
John Lappen   Publicity
Bob Gruen   Photography
Steve Banks   Photography
Jay Blakesberg   Photography
Edgar Winter   Composer,Assistant,Production Consultant
Shelly Yakus   Producer,Technical Director
Rim Kelley   Producer
Bill Josey   Producer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Bill Szymczyk   Technical Director
Jimmy Reed   Composer
J.B. Lenoir   Composer
Chuck Berry   Composer
Gretchen Brennison   Project Manager
Larry Williams   Composer
Eddie Kramer   Photography,Production Consultant
Don DeVito   Producer
Jeff Rosen   Producer
John Lennon   Composer
F. James   Composer
Jerry Rappaport   Compilation Producer
Rick Derringer   Composer,Producer
Percy Mayfield   Composer
Mark Wilder   Mastering
Bob Margolin   Producer
Roy Segal   Assistant
McKinley Morganfield   Composer
Al Kooper   Producer
Joe Reagoso   Executive Producer
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup   Composer
Al Quaglieri   Producer
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