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Johnny Winter

by Johnny Winter

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1990's

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1990

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Overall Rating: 3.2464 Johnny Winter is ranked overall as 3.2464 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.6000 Johnny Winter has an avg. critic score of 3.6000 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

Winter's debut album for Columbia was also arguably his bluesiest and best. ...more

Rolling Stone

Having listened to the new Johnny Winter LP for a couple of weeks, I have to say that I found it disappointing, despite the fact that in several respects it's a more than respectable, even a fine album. But it hasn't the looseness, excitement, intensity, the real power and urgency of the best stuff on the earlier Sonobeat session. ...more

PopMatters

Neo-Trad Has His Day This is a good album in the great white-blues-rock tradition, played, of course, by a virtuoso guitarist. And give Winter credit for being more than just a virtuoso: he plays with a dirty rock raunch, one that's both distinctive (he sounds a lot hornier than Clapton, not quite as trippy as Hendrix) and appropriate. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Winter's debut album for Columbia was also arguably his bluesiest and best. Straight out of Texas with a hot trio, Winter made blues-rock music for the angels, tearing up a cheap Fender guitar with total abandon on tracks like "I'm Yours and I'm Hers," "Leland Mississippi Blues," and perhaps the slow blues moment to die for on this set, B.B. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Sony Legacy's remastered and expanded reissue of Johnny Winter's self-produced debut album for Columbia Records -- recorded in 1969 -- is nothing short of a revelation. Unlike his most of his peers who purposefully wed blues to rock and made it palatable to pop audiences, Winter's approach to the blues was pure and savage. ...more

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