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Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter And Live
Review by John Morthland, Creem, June 1971
HOW, YOU MIGHT be asking yourself, could this not be a killer album? After all, it may have taken two albums and several tours, but ...
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Sam & Dave: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 16 December 1968
Soul Team Plays 'South of the Border' ...
Johnny Winter: The Making Of A Superstar
Report and Interview by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 1969
THERE WAS THE Fillmore East, the East Coast's major rock palace, located ingratiously in a heap of garbage, drunks and weekend freaks on Second Ave. ...
Blues Guitar Sound of Johnny Winter Comes North
Profile and Interview by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 7 January 1969
JOHNNY WINTER has spent years playing bars and lounges in the South and now, with fingers that fly across his guitar like a Texas tornado, ...
Essay by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 16 June 1969
"All new technologies bring on the cultural blues, just as the old ones evoke phantom pain after they have disappeared." — Marshall McLuhan, War and ...
The Memphis Country Blues Festival
Report by Miller Francis jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 23 June 1969
AN ARTICLE ON the Memphis Country Blues Festival in a local Memphis newspaper was headlined: "BLUES ARE REBORN IN COTTON-FIELD HEAT." ...
He Waited, Worked and Worried; Then Overnight, Winter Was Here
Interview by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 1969
HE'S A TALL, white Texan who not only plays the blues, he lives them. ...
Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter (CBS); Tony Joe White: Black And White (Monument)
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 18 July 1969
THE ONLY OTHER record I possess on English Monument, is Ray Steven's single, 'Mr Businessman', which is beautiful and so is this album by Mr ...
Newport Jazz Festival 1969: New Records & Not All That Jazz
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 19 July 1969
NEWPORT, R.I. — On paper at least the experiment of adding rock music to the Newport Jazz Festival 1969 came from the purest of motives. ...
Johnny Winter: Forest Hills Music Festival, Queens NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 28 July 1969
Agility Marks Blues By Johnny Winter At Forest Hills Fete ...
The Apollo Theatre and the Fillmore East: Black and White Music in NYC
Comment by Loraine Alterman, New York Scenes, September 1969
MORE THAN Central Park and city blocks separate the Apollo Theatre in Harlem and the Fillmore East in the East Village. ...
Johnny Winter: Living the Blues
Interview by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 26 September 1969
Johnny Winter Tries to Live Up to His Image ...
Chicago, Johnny Winter: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 16 November 1969
Blodwyn Pig Also on Bill of Jazz and Blues Rock ...
Johnny Winter And with Edgar Winter's White Trash at the Capitol Theater , Port Chester, NY
Live Review by Jon Tiven, New Haven Rock Press, 1970
THE ATMOSPHERE was a bit tense and strained at the Capitol this particular night as Columbia Recording Studios was recording all of what was going ...
Johnny Winter And... Mississippi Fred?
Live Review by Rick McGrath, The Georgia Straight, April 1970
WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTED to go to every bloody concert that comes to town and try to reach a critical judgment (or something like that), sometimes ...
Profile by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 13 April 1970
"I don't wanna wreck nobody's soul I just wanna rock & roll!" — Johnny Winter ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 April 1970
ROCKERS TAKE OVER FOR A NIGHT ...
Johnny Winter, Flock, Steamhammer: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 25 April 1970
ANY AMERICAN rock act is guaranteed a standing ovation at London's Royal Albert Hall these days. Johnny Winter deserved one on Friday night at the ...
Sounds of the '70s at Montreux
Report by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 1 May 1970
UP THE ROAD from where I'm sitting now, senior television executives from ail over Europe, and from America and Japan, have been descending into a ...
Johnny Winter: On Music, Hype and Happiness
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 15 October 1970
FOR TOO long there, it seemed to Johnny Winter like he would never be known for his music as much as he would be known ...
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Sounds, 17 October 1970
THE IDEA of Johnny Winter, Texan albino, blues guitarist and underground legend, working with the McCoys, bubble-gum lightweights sold on their teenage looks, would have ...
Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter And... (CBS)
Review by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 17 October 1970
OH YES! Great stuff, funky, pumpy, loud and brash and damned uncouth — which is the way R&B should be played. ...
Johnny Winter And: Johnny Winter And (CBS stereo, 64117, 39s 11d)
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 21 November 1970
I THINK IT'S about time that certain people stopped getting themselves hung-up on what they figure to be Johnny Winter's somewhat bizarre appearance and got ...
Johnny Winter: Behind the Scene With Steve Paul
Report and Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1971
THE BIG dusty black Cadillac limousine comes rolling around the comer at Twenty-First Street, turns into the dimly-lighted stage-set stillness of Gramercy Park East, and ...
Eight People Go Crazy at Same Time: Edgar White's White Trash
Interview by Danny Goldberg, Creem, December 1971
EDGAR WINTER'S White Trash is probably the best evidence this side of Grand Funk that rock is not dead. An unbelievable bunch of Southerners who ...
Profile by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, June 1972
THE BEST NEWS of last week was that Johnny Winter, after a year in medical exile, was once again alive and functioning, and due to ...
Hot Tuna, Black Kangeroo, John Hammond: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Dan Nooger, The Village Voice, 2 November 1972
SATURDAY WAS white blues night at the Academy of Music. But the evening really began with a semi-frenzied escape from Captain Beefheart's disappointingly dull and ...
Johnny Winter: Back and Kicking
Profile and Interview by Ben Edmonds, Creem, July 1973
THE HOUSE is an easy hour by car from the wall-to-wall insanity of midtown Manhattan, situated in one of the bedroom communities just over the ...
Johnny Winter: Still Alive And Well
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, Spring 1973
BY NOW EVERYONE must know the reason it took Johnny Winter such a long time to get around to recording this album was not simply ...
Saints and Sinners: Johnny Winter's Celebration of Freedom
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Circus, March 1974
IN A HUGE Connecticut mansion, the kind reserved for bank presidents -and rock stars, a tall, thin, albino blues player kneeled before a massive fireplace, ...
Johnny Winter: Saints And Sinners
Review by Jim Esposito, Zoo World, 28 March 1974
YOU'D THINK that anyone who's paid as many dues as Johnny Winter would just wanna sit back and collect residuals, now wouldn't you? Not Johnny, ...
Johnny Winter: Saints and Sinners/Roy Buchanan: That's What I Am Here For
Review by John Morthland, Phonograph Record, April 1974
IT'S A SAD DAY indeed for guitar freaks when two of the best in the business turn out the spottiest albums of their careers. But ...
Rick Derringer: The Irony of the Hootchie Koo
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 11 April 1974
NEW YORK — "I never expected 'Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo' to do so well commercially," said Rick Derringer, the single's writer as well as ...
Johnny Winter: the New Victoria Theatre, London; Man and Badfinger: the Adelphi, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 27 October 1974
JOHNNY WINTER inspires one of Rock music's more curious secret societies. ...
Johnny Winter: Will The Real John Dawson Winter III Stand Up And Rock?
Report and Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus Raves, February 1975
THE RECORD Plant, one of New York's finest recording studios, occupies a floor of an otherwise unprepossessing office building in the heart of the Times ...
Johnny and Edgar Winter: Two Hazy Shades of Winter
Report and Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 6 November 1975
OAKLAND – "My band's a dictatorship and Edgar's is a democracy," Johnny Winter blurted out through the hotel-room haze after playing the last of three ...
Muddy Waters: Hard Again (Blue Sky)
Review by Gary Kenton, Circus, 28 April 1977
IT IS NEVER an easy task to record a legend. What, after all, could Muddy Waters — at the age of 60 — do on ...
Nils Lofgren, Johnny Winter: University of Texas, Dallas
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 27 August 1977
THE UNIVERSITY of Texas auditorium was packed and standing with 3,300 big people. Some were seven foot tall, wearing Stetson hats, cowboy boots and chewing ...
Dis Man am de Saviour of de Blues. An’ Dis am no Joke...
Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 24 December 1977
Live from Fort Worth, Texas: JOHNNY WINTER talks to Miles ...because it seems like the world's whitest blues player is really getting it together after ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 28 January 1978
"If you're watching me and Johnny Winter, the show is MEANT to be in black and white." ...
Muddy Waters: The Bottom Line, New York NY
Live Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 6 April 1978
Muddy Waters' mojo is still in working order ...
Johnny Winter: The Bluesman Do Play Rock and Roll...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar World, November 1985
...and Cajun-style, and country ...
Johnny Winter: After A Long Drought, Winter Blows Into Town
Interview by Fred Shuster, Los Angeles Daily News, 10 November 2006
THE CALL comes just before midnight on election night — a Texas accent thick as T-bone steak and as lived-in as the frets on T-Bone ...
see also Rick Derringer
see also Edgar Winter
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