Hoochie Koo Rick Derringer

Hal Leonard has released Volume 18 of their Bass Play-Along series. Blues Rock is a 70 page, 8 song book featuring tab and CD tracks for each classic blues tune. The melody and lyrics for each tune are also included.
The CD includes audio with and without bass, so you can hear the bassline first, and play along with the backing tracks. The CD is enhanced for PC and Mac users to allow the recordings to be played at any tempo without changing the pitch. …

After two late-'60s albums on Columbia, Johnny Winter hit his stride in 1970 working with Rick Derringer and the McCoys, now recruited as his sidemen and collaborators (and proving with just about every note here how far they'd gotten past "Hang on Sloopy"). In place of the bluesy focus on his first two albums, Winter extended himself into more of a rock-oriented mode here, in both his singing and his selection of material. This was hard rock with a blues edge, and had a certain commercial smoothness lacking in his earlier work. Derringer's presence on guitar and as a songwriter saw to it that Winter's blues virtuosity was balanced by perfectly placed guitar hooks, and the two guitarists complemented each other perfectly throughout as well.

This is the promotional only sampler of a whole series of releases of very popular recording artists from Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music and its associated labels. All of these separate releases in this series were excellent "Best Of" collections and carried the title 'RockExperience' on their packaging.