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Since the 1960s, Johnny Winter has been making his own distinctive
blend of blues and rock music. This folio features note-for-note
transcriptions with tab for 13 Winter favorites: Be Careful with a
Fool * Dallas * Good Morning Little Schoolgirl * Highway 61
Revisited * Hustled Down in Texas * I Guess I'll Go Away * I'm
Yours and I'm Hers * Illustrated Man * Johnny B. Goode * Mean Town
Blues * Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo * Rock Me Baby * Still Alive and
Well. Also features photos, Winter's commentary about each of the
songs, and an extensive interview with Andy Aledort reprinted from
Guitar magazine.
When Johnny Winter burst upon the American music scene in the late
1960s, he was initially looked upon as a something of an oddity--an
albino guitarist playing and singing the blues--until people
actually heard him perform. The Texas native played a sharp,
bracing style of (mostly) electric blues with few concessions to
rock & roll audiences. His 1969 self-titled debut reveals a
fierce talent out to show the world that he could play the blues
with the best of them. Inspired by the raw sounds of blues icons
Lightnin' Hopkins and Muddy Waters (whom he would often work with
in the '70s), this set sizzles with passionate, incendiary electric
soloing (B.B. King's "Be Careful with a Fool"); slashing,
Delta-style acoustic slide guitar (Robert Johnson's "When You Got a
Good Friend," the ominous original "Dallas"); and soulful,
horn-accented balladry ("Two Steps from the Blues," one of three
bonus tracks on this 2004 remastered edition). Winter would go on
to record many albums in both blues and rock & roll styles--and
play with artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, the Allman Brothers, and
Sonny Terry--but his first remains one of his finest.
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