Artist: Johnny Winter
Album: True To The Blues (The Johnny Winter Story)
Bitrate: 243kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Columbia
Genre: Blues
Size: 494.93 megs
PlayTime: 4h 28min 21sec total
Rip Date: 2014-09-06
Store Date: 2014-02-25
Track List: Disc #1/4
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01. Bad Luck And Trouble 3:43
02. Mean Town Blues 4:28
03. Mike Bloomfield's Introduction 1:04
Of Johnny Winter (Live At
Fillmore East)
04. It's My Own Fault (Live At 10:58
Fillmore East)
05. I'm Yours And I'm Hers 4:30
06. Mean Mistreater 3:53
07. Dallas 2:46
08. Be Careful With A Fool 5:16
09. Leland Mississippi Blues (Live 4:51
At Woodstock)
10. Memory Pain 5:30
11. Highway 61 Revisted 5:07
12. Miss Ann 3:40
13. Hustled Down In Texas 3:32
14. Black Cat Bone (Live At Royal 5:37
Albert Hall)
15. Johnny B. Goode (Live At The 3:33
Royal Albert Hall)
Track List: Disc #2/4
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01. Eyesight To The Blind (Live At 5:03
Atlanta Pop)
02. Johnny Winter's Intro (Live At 0:43
Atlanta Pop)
03. Prodigal Son (Live At Atlanta 5:12
Pop)
04. Mean Mistreater (Live At 5:48
Atlanta Pop)
05. Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo 3:31
06. Guess I'll Go Away 3:26
07. On The Limb 3:34
08. It's My Own Fault (Live) 11:44
09. Jumpin' Jack Flash (Live) 4:25
10. Good Morning Little School Girl 4:40
(Live At Fillmore East)
11. Mean Town Blues (Live At 17:30
Fillmore East)
Track List: Disc #3/4
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01. Atill Alive And Well 3:44
02. Rock Me Baby 3:50
03. Rock & Roll 4:44
04. Rollin' 'cross The Country 4:32
05. Hurtin' So Bad 4:39
06. Bad Luck Situation 2:49
07. Self Destructive Blues 3:28
08. Sweet Papa John 3:10
09. Rock & Roll People 2:45
10. Harlem Shuffle (Live With Edgar 3:38
Winter)
11. Bony Moronie (Live) 6:42
12. Roll With Me (Live) 4:53
13. Tired Of Tryin' 3:40
14. Tv Mama 3:11
15. Walkin' Thru The Park 4:06
16. I Done Got Ever It (Live With 6:03
Muddy Waters & James Cotton)
Track List: Disc #4/4
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01. One Step At A Time 3:59
02. Honest I Do 4:20
03. Nickel Blues 3:33
04. Talk Is Cheap 3:42
05. Wolf In Sheep's Clothing 5:33
06. Bon Ton Roulet 4:44
07. Don't Take Advantage Of Me 5:25
08. Master Mechanic 3:38
09. Mojo Boogie 4:54
10. Stranger Blues (Live) 6:55
11. Illustrated Man 3:39
12. Hard Way 4:00
13. Highway 61 Revisted (Live At 5:12
The Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary
Concert Celebration)
14. Maybellene (feat. Vince Gill) 2:48
15. Dust My Broom (feat. Derek 6:01
Trucks)
Release Notes:
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There has always been more to the Johnny Winter story than meets the eye, and if
stepping into the role of a whirlwind albino electric blues guitar player from
Texas with a brilliant slide style was the very role he was born to fill, he
took a while to get there. For starters, he was born in Mississippi, which might
explain something, and then grew up in Texas, where he played clarinet before
switching over to guitar at the age of 11. Early on he played country before
discovering the blues, and realizing there was no money and little future in
playing the blues, he turned to studio pop in the early '60s. Times change,
though, and by the end of that decade Winter had returned to the blues, where
being an amazing electric guitar player with a roaring voice brought him his
true calling. That's where this four-disc, 56-track box set picks up the story,
the first such set to span the commercial and in-the-public-eye portion of
Winter's career, beginning in 1968 and running all the way through to his Roots
album, which was released in 2011, deftly drawing on some 27 albums from various
labels, including Liberty/Imperial, Columbia, Blue Sky/Epic, Alligator, Point
Blank/Virgin, Friday Music, Collectors' Choice Music, Megaforce, and Legacy.
It's an impressive catalog of blistering slide runs and manic, propulsive blues
shuffles, stomps, and boogies, all delivered with Winter's roar of a voice.
Winter's career has made him nothing short of a monument, really, in the
postmodern blues world, an iconic player who could take a song like Bob Dylan's
"Highway 61 Revisited" (included here) and make it his own, turning out what is
perhaps the definitive version of it in much the same manner that Jimi Hendrix
did with Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." It's an apt comparison, really,
because although Winter never quite had the theatric flair that Hendrix had (one
can't imagine Winter burning a guitar on-stage, for instance), he may have been
just as responsible for the idea of modern power blues, and certainly no one has
done it longer or done it any better than Johnny Winter. This box set presents a
huge slab of that legacy.