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Live Bootleg Series, Vol. 8 by Johnny Winter

Label: Friday Music
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Recording Time: 53 minutes

Styles: Blues-Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Electric Texas Blues, Regional Blues, Slide Guitar Blues, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Boogie Rock, Guitar Virtuoso, Electric Blues, Electric Texas Blues

The eighth volume in Johnny Winter's Live Bootleg Series, a series he oversees, drawing live tracks from his personal archives, features Winter's signature blistering guitar leads on Freddie King's "Tore Down," Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven, and a pair of Elmore James covers, "Stranger Blues" and "Done Somebody Wrong," among other selections. This is Winter in full electric blues mode, and the sound, while spotty, is decent enough, although nothing here is going to change one's perceptions of Winter as a guitarist and performer one way or the other. His most ardent fans will love this, though, and that's who this release is intended to please.
by Steve Leggett

Personnel: Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar).
Liner Note Author: Paul Nelson.
Photographer: Paul Natkin.

Credits: Paul Natkin - cover photo, photography; Paul Nelson - art direction, executive producer, liner notes; Joe Reagoso - executive producer, layout, mastering; Johnny Winter - guitar, primary artist, producer, vocals; John Yuschak - layout.

Tracks: 1) Introduction; 2) Give It Back; 3) Tore Down; 4) Stranger Blues; 5) Done Somebody Wrong; 6) Have You Ever Loved a Woman; 7) Roll Over Beethoven.