Label: Friday Music
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Recording Time: 55 minutes
Styles: Blues-Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Electric Texas Blues, Regional Blues, Slide Guitar Blues, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Electric Blues
The keyword in this Johnny Winter archival series is "bootleg." This fifth volume feels more like a bottom-of-the-barrel scrape than anything that flatters or enhances Winter's reputation as an electric blues innovator. The material is from the late '80s or early '90s except for "Talk Is Cheap," which he cut early on. The sound quality is pure audience with limited fidelity -- you can hear the man's guitar and you can hear a bassline, and that's about it -- and his singing, when you can behold it clearly, is atrociously bad. This volume should be avoided by anyone who values Winter's contribution to modern American music.
by Thom Jurek
Additional Info: Remastered
2009 - Top Blues Albums (8 Peak).
Personnel: Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar); Jon Paris (harmonica, bass guitar); Bobby T. (drums).
Liner Note Author: Mark Kemp.
Photographer: Susan Winter.
Credits: Bobby T. - Drums; Eddie Boyd - Composer; Rick Derringer - Composer; Willie Dixon - Composer; Mark Kemp - Liner Notes; Jay Miller - Composer; Rodney Morgan - Composer; Jon Paris - Bass, Guitar (Bass), Harmonica; Joe Reagoso - Executive Producer, Mastering; Mac Rebennack - Composer; David Seth - Composer; Rob Stoner - Composer; Jim Summaria - Cover Photo; Johnny Winter - Composer, Guitar, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals; Susan Winter - Photography.
Tracks: 1) Introduction; 2) Third Degree; 3) Talk Is Cheap; 4) You're Humbuggin' Me; 5) Lights Out; 6) You Keep Sayin' That You're Leavin'; 7) New York, New York; 8) Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo (Bonus Track).