Johnny Winter Still Alive And Well

Johnny Winter - Still Alive And Well (1973)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 30, 2023
Johnny Winter - Still Alive And Well (1973)

Johnny Winter - Still Alive And Well (1973)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 237 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 92 MB | Covers - 54 MB
Genre: Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia (472767 2)

Still Alive and Well proved to the record-buying public that Johnny Winter was both. This is a truly enjoyable album, chock-full of great tunes played well. Johnny's version of the Rolling Stones' "Silver Train" revealed the potential of this song and what the Stones failed to capture. Everything here is good, so get it and dig in.

Johnny Winter - Step Back (2014)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 1, 2023
Johnny Winter - Step Back (2014)

Johnny Winter - Step Back (2014)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 367 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 119 MB | Covers - 160 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Megaforce Records (0 20286 21696 4)

Stepping into the role of a whirlwind albino electric blues guitar player from Texas with a brilliant slide style and a roaring voice was the very role Johnny Winter was born to fill. He released nearly 30 albums of blues and blues-rock in his 40-plus-year career, and delivered countless memorable concerts as well. His death in the summer of 2014 at the age of 70 left an unfillable void in the international blues community. Step Back is his final studio album, and it follows his 2011 release Roots in paying tribute to his various blues influences, and, like Roots, it is essentially a series of duets with all-star guests, with Eric Clapton, Ben Harper, Billy Gibbons, Joe Perry, Dr. John, Leslie West, Brian Setzer, and Joe Bonnamassa helping out this time around…

Johnny Winter - Saints & Sinners (1974)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 1, 2023
Johnny Winter - Saints & Sinners (1974)

Johnny Winter - Saints & Sinners (1974)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 223 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 89 MB | Covers - 51 MB
Genre: Blues Rock, Hard Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia (472766 2)

Johnny Winter's sixth Columbia album was also his second since his comeback from drug addiction. Its predecessor, Still Alive and Well, had been his highest charting effort. Saints & Sinners was just as energetically played, but its mixture of material, including '50s rock & roll oldies like Chuck Berry's "Thirty Days," Larry Williams' "Bony Moronie," and Leiber & Stoller's "Riot in Cell Block #9," recent covers like the Rolling Stones' "Stray Cat Blues," and a couple of originals, was more eclectic than inspired. (Van Morrison completists should note that the album also contains Winter's cover of Morrison's "Feedback on Highway 101," a typical bluesy groove song that Morrison recorded for his 1973 Hard Nose the Highway album but dropped. Winter's is the only released recording of the song)…

Johnny Winter - Serious Business (1985)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 8, 2023
Johnny Winter - Serious Business (1985)

Johnny Winter - Serious Business (1985)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 295 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 104 MB | Covers - 82 MB
Genre: Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Alligator Records (ALCD 4742)

Although it could be argued that, for the most part, Johnny Winter has gotten better and better as a guitarist over the years, his career has had its ups and downs for personal and professional reasons. Especially after involving himself in the latter stages of Muddy Waters' career and helping the veteran bluesman achieve a comeback with 1977's Hard Again, Winter made superior music of his own on the blues-oriented Nothin' But the Blues and White, Hot & Blue. But those albums didn't sell as well as some of his earlier rock-oriented ones, and after his 1980 album Raisin' Cain moved back toward rock, but didn't even make the charts, he left his major label and spent a few years without a record company. Signing to the Chicago-based independent blues label Alligator Records, he staged his own comeback with 1984's Guitar Slinger, and its follow-up, Serious Business, is in the same vein…
Johnny Winter - The Return of Johnny Guitar (The Best Of Johnny Winter 1984-86) (1996)

Johnny Winter - The Return of Johnny Guitar (The Best Of Johnny Winter 1984-86) (1996)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 437 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 146 MB | Covers - 86 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Music Club (MCCD 270)

Culled from Johnny's 3 '80s Alligator albums (Guitar Slinger-Serious Business-Third Degree) these 12 tracks prove that after the guitar slingers CBS years he still had the fire to burn the fingerboard! Back by top notch Chicago blues players and the occassional guest's Dr. John & Tommy Shannon (ex Stevie Ray Vaughan bassist) during his Alligator years, these recordings show Johnny at his best with no confetti or studio razzle dazzle. These raw to the bone blues tracks boil red hot. If you don't own any of the guitar legends Alligator albums, you must get this one.

Johnny Winter - Live In NYC '97 (1998)  Music

Posted by gribovar at March 12, 2023
Johnny Winter - Live In NYC '97 (1998)

Johnny Winter - Live In NYC '97 (1998)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 397 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 137 MB | Covers - 155 MB
Genre: Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Virgin Records America (VPBCD 43)

Johnny Winter assembled Live in NYC '97 with assistance of his fan club, drawing all of the recordings from an April 1997 performance at the Bottom Line. Produced by Winter's longtime colleague Dick Shurman, the record doesn't follow the predictable pattern of a live album - instead of hits, it offers fan favorites and covers, which makes for a much more interesting listen. Throughout the album, Winter simply rips, tearing through all five songs with blistering energy. This is the live album hardcore fans have been wanting for years, and it doesn't fail to deliver on its promise.

Johnny Winter - White Lightning [Recorded 1969] (1993)  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 1, 2023
Johnny Winter - White Lightning [Recorded 1969] (1993)

Johnny Winter - White Lightning [Recorded 1969] (1993)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 222 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 100 MB | Covers - 43 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Thunderbolt (CDTB 149)

This album was recorded in Dallas, in the fall of '69 that also featured B.B. King, Sly & the Family Stone and Ten Years After.. By this time Johnny's popularity was such that he was no longer merely an opening act but a headliner and just a everyone expected, he stole the show. Not only that, we're lucky enough to have a really good quality recording surviving from that unforgettable show.
Johnny Winter - Live in Houston Busted In Austin [Recorded 1969] (1991)

Johnny Winter - Live in Houston Busted In Austin [Recorded 1969] (1991)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 440 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 143 MB | Covers - 43 MB
Genre: Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Thunderbolt (CDBT 100)

If you ever wondered what the white blues monster sounded like at the very peak of his name, this is it! Recorded at a 1969 Johnny Winter concer in Houston, Johnny and his regular band members (brother Edgar, I.P. Sweat, Uncle John Turner) display the honed-to-perfection combination of blues with rock that ws catapulting Johnny to stardom at tis very time in music history. No longer was he merely a regional blues man doing old favorites for a cult following; Johnny was blazing forth with a totally new sound that captured big audiences everywhere.

Johnny Winter - Deluxe Edition (2001)  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 8, 2023
Johnny Winter - Deluxe Edition (2001)

Johnny Winter - Deluxe Edition (2001)
XLD Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 458 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 148 MB | Covers - 26 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Alligator Records (ALCD 5609)

The rockin’ blues guitar legend Johnny Winter is showcased in a parade of relentless hot licks and menacing growls on this Alligator compilation. The material here was culled from three of Winter’s strongest Alligator albums-1984’s Third Degree, 1985’s Guitar Slinger and 1986’s Serious Business. It includes two previously unissued tracks in the Smiley Lewis flavored "Georgianna," which features Dr. John tickling the ivories, and the Delta-flavored "Nothing but the Devil," featuring James Cotton on harmonica.
Johnny Winter - A Rock N' Roll Collection [Recorded 1969-1977] (1994)

Johnny Winter - A Rock N' Roll Collection [Recorded 1969-1977] (1994)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 681 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 253 MB | Covers - 134 MB
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Columbia/Legacy (C2K 46985)

A two-CD survey of Winter's recordings for Columbia between 1969 and 1979, the era of his greatest commercial success. This collects many of his most popular tracks, though it doesn't do much to argue a case for artistic diversity. Includes two otherwise unavailable songs: an alternate take of "30 Days," and a previously unreleased 1973 cover of Robert Johnson's "Come on in My Kitchen."