Second Winter – JOHNNY WINTER*****

Memory Pain/I’m Not Sure/The Good Love/Slippin’ & Slidin’/Miss Ann/Johnny B Goode/Highway 61 Revisited/I Love Everybody/Hustled Down In Texas/I Hate Everybody/Fast Life Rider

The classic Second Winter, the second Columbia LP from virtuoso blues rock guitarist Johnny Winter was probably unique in being three sided. Includes a couple of rock and roll covers and a Dylan song. (US:55)

“I think there are good arguments that Johnny was about as good a guitar player as you'd find by the time this album came out. This is stone-cold junkie blues rock at its pinnacle. There is no way to improve upon this album in that regard. The blues rock guitar playing is simply mind-boggling, the songs are great and there is a very enjoyable variety on the disc.”

“This album rocks the house from the foundation to the rafters. All original blues numbers, with a couple of covers of Little Richard and Chuck Berry, plus Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited."

“Johnny Winter's second album for Columbia Records came out in 1969, and it is one of his most stylistically diverse offerings, and his most idiosyncratic as well. It is not a pure blues album, nor a rock 'n' roll record, although there is plenty of blues here, and a solid helping of rock 'n' roll as well. It is sort of psychedelic bluesrock record which includes shades of funk, hard rock, and a little bit of jazz.”

“Johnny Winter is one of the finest slide guitarists and this could be his biggest achievement. But he is also a great vocalist who manages to show it in rock 'n' roll (Miss Ann), jazz blues (I Hate Everyone) and his signature Texas blues throughout the album.”

“Second Winter is easily Johnny Winters most popular and well received album. Packed with his virtuosic finger pickin’ half slide, half not blues guitar playing and his rough and screechy vocals, this is the best he ever played or sung. He just sounds great all around.”

“Second Winter is one of the greatest guitar albums of all time. Winter's guitar burns, stings, screams and cries. It unleashes furious note flurries and some of the most blazing blues solos ever put to vinyl. In short it's nothing less than a masterpiece of blues and blues rock guitar. The whole album is just so amazing.”