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Johnny Winter: Beginnings - 1960-1967 (2-CD)

(2017/Sunset Boulevard Records) 40 Tracks - The early days of the great Johnny Winter shows his musical evolution from early Texas Rock'n'Roll and R&B into deep sixties Blues Rock! A must for American roots music enthusiasts!

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Winter, Johnny - Beginnings - 1960-1967 (2-CD) CD 1
01 Ice Cube Johnny Winter
02 School Day Blues Johnny Winter
03 You Know I Love You Johnny Winter
04 Geisha Rock Johnny Winter
05 Oh My Darling Johnny Winter
06 Creepy Johnny Winter
07 One Night of Love Johnny Winter
08 Hey Hey Hey Hey Johnny Winter
09 That's What Love Does Johnny Winter
10 Shed So Many Tears Johnny Winter
11 Voo Doo Twist Johnny Winter
12 Ease My Pain Johnny Winter
13 By the Light of the Silvery Moon Johnny Winter
14 Road Runner Johnny Winter
15 The Guy You Left Behind Johnny Winter
16 Five After Four AM Johnny Winter
17 Stay By My Side Johnny Winter
18 Broke and Lonely Johnny Winter
19 Crying in My Heart Johnny Winter
20 Crazy Baby Johnny Winter
Winter, Johnny - Beginnings - 1960-1967 (2-CD) CD 2
01 Reeling And Rocking Johnny Winter
02 Can't Believe You Wanna Leave Johnny Winter
03 Gangster Of Love Johnny Winter
04 Eternally Johnny Winter
05 You'll Be The Death Of Me Johnny Winter
06 Leave My Woman Alone Johnny Winter
07 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye Johnny Winter
08 Hello My Lover Johnny Winter
09 I Had To Cry Johnny Winter
10 I Won't Believe It Johnny Winter
11 Gone For Bad Johnny Winter
12 Bad News Johnny Winter
13 Out Of Sight Johnny Winter
14 Parchman Farm Johnny Winter
15 Tramp Johnny Winter
16 Don't Hide It Johnny Winter
17 Avocado Green Johnny Winter
18 Easy Lovin' Girl Johnny Winter
19 Birds Can't Row Boats Johnny Winter
20 Leavin' Blues Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter  albino kid with enough heat in his fingers to melt a guitar neck shook... more
"Johnny Winter"

Johnny Winter

 albino kid with enough heat in his fingers to melt a guitar neck shook up the Gulf Coast during the early '60s. By decade's end, the whole world would know Johnny Winter, but when he raucously revived Johnny 'Guitar' Watson's Gangster Of Love for Ken Ritter's Frolic label in 1964, Winter was a regional phenomenon.

Born February 23, 1944 in Beaumont, Texas, Johnny and his younger brother Edgar grew up loving the blues. Johnny listened regularly to Beaumont blues guitarist Clarence Garlow's KJET radio program. "The radio station then was like two doors down from where my grandmother lived. So I'd be staying over at her place, and I could just walk over two doors and see Clarence," says Johnny. "He was one of the first blues musicians that I actually got to see and watch close up and learn from. 

The two Winters formed Johnny and The Jammers when Johnny was only 14 and snared their first record contract through a contest built around the 1959 rock and roll film 'Go, Johnny Go!' "As kind of a gimmick that went along with the movie, they had this contest called the Johnny Melody Contest. You couldn't use a group; you had to get up there and just sing and play guitar," says Johnny. "So I won the contest, of course. There wasn't anybody near as good as I was at that point."

The band headed to Bill Hall's Gulf Coast Recording Studio in Beaumont to lay down School Day Blues and a flip, Edgar manning the 88s. "We played 'em for Bill Hall. He said, 'Great! We'll record 'em!' We couldn't even believe it," says Winter, whose debut offering came out on the Dart label in 1960.

Ken Ritter, nephew of Western star Tex Ritter, produced several early Winter 45s for his KRCO and Frolic labels, ranging from lowdown swamp blues to catchy instrumentals and pop-accessible pieces. "Ken Ritter was my manager, and he would lease the records," says Johnny. "I never made a penny. I don't know how much Ken made, but he'd always get a little money in front. He'd say, 'Well, I've got a lot of expenses, kid.'" Ritter leased Johnny's Gone For Bad to MGM but held onto Winter’s 1964 cover of Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s boastful ’57 Keen platterGangster Of Love for Frolic (multi-instrumentalist Edgar devised the horn chart). "That particular song I love," says Johnny. "Dickey Lee, the guy who had out a song called 'Patches' years ago, he sang in the background chorus on that song." Frolic paired it with Winter's own Eternally, but when Ritter leased Eternally to Atlantic, he coupled it with the garage-rocking Winter original You'll Be The Death Of Me. Gangster Of Love became a hippie-era classic when Steve Miller placed it on his 1968 ‘Sailor’ LP.

After nearly a decade of struggle, a glowing feature in a well-read rock magazine changed everything for Winter. "The 'Rolling Stone' article came out about Texas musicians, saying that I was the greatest thing in Texas still starving to death," says Winter. "Overnight, people that wouldn't even talk to me were calling me from New York, California, Europe, every place, man." Winter chose to sign with Columbia, his 1969 major label debut album catapulting the long-haired axeman to rock superstar status. As the decades progressed, Johnny has reverted to his blues roots more than once, his mastery of the idiom never in question.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Tracklist
Winter, Johnny - Beginnings - 1960-1967 (2-CD) CD 1
01 Ice Cube
02 School Day Blues
03 You Know I Love You
04 Geisha Rock
05 Oh My Darling
06 Creepy
07 One Night of Love
08 Hey Hey Hey Hey
09 That's What Love Does
10 Shed So Many Tears
11 Voo Doo Twist
12 Ease My Pain
13 By the Light of the Silvery Moon
14 Road Runner
15 The Guy You Left Behind
16 Five After Four AM
17 Stay By My Side
18 Broke and Lonely
19 Crying in My Heart
20 Crazy Baby
Winter, Johnny - Beginnings - 1960-1967 (2-CD) CD 2
01 Reeling And Rocking
02 Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
03 Gangster Of Love
04 Eternally
05 You'll Be The Death Of Me
06 Leave My Woman Alone
07 Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
08 Hello My Lover
09 I Had To Cry
10 I Won't Believe It
11 Gone For Bad
12 Bad News
13 Out Of Sight
14 Parchman Farm
15 Tramp
16 Don't Hide It
17 Avocado Green
18 Easy Lovin' Girl
19 Birds Can't Row Boats
20 Leavin' Blues