Johnny Winter's Texas Blues
Production Notes:
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Two CD Set of Johnny Winter recordings during the Early Sixties
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| Texas Blues In Europe |
| Texas Blues in the USA |
Personnel/Band Members:
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- Johnny Winter - Guitar, Vocals
Album Tracklisting:
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Disc 1
- LIVIN IN THE BLUES
- CREEPY
- GANGSTER OF LOVE
- THE GUY LEFT BEHIND
- OUT OF SIGHT
- PARCHMAN FARM
- LOW DOWN GAL OF MINE
- FIVE AFTER FOUR AM
- EASE MY PAIN
- 32-20 BLUES
- BAD NEWS
- GOING'DOWN SLOW
- KINDHEARTED WOMAN BLUES
- HARLEM NOCTURNE
- LIVIN' IN THE BLUES
DISC 2
- LEAVE MY WOMAN ALONE
- I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WANT TO LEAVE
- ROAD RUNNER
- Shed So Many Tears (Elton Anderson/Eddie Shuler)
- AVOCADO GREEN
- I HAD TO CRY
- PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
- 8. THAT'S WHAT LOVE DOES
- BY THE LIGHT OF THE SILVERY MOON
- KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE
- EASY LOVIN'GIRL
- BIRDS CAN'T ROW BOATS (SPIDERS OF THE MIND)
- TAKE A CHANGE ON MY LOVE
- THE WORLD TURNS ALL AROUND HER
Comments and Reviews:
This collection gathers 29 of Johnny Winter's early recordings (duplicating many tracks from previous albums such as "Birds Can't Row Boats", "Original Winter: The Sixties Sessions", and "Early Heat").
Disc I opens with a fine, acoustic "Livin' In The Blues" (weirdly credited to Albert Collins, even though it is obviously Son House's "Death Letter Blues" with different lyrics).
Other highlights include a delightfully catchy piano-boogie of "The Guy You Left Behind", the harp-driven "Ease My Pain", the extremely Dylan-derived "Avocado Green", and the good-natured Jimmy Reed-ripoff "That's What Love Does".
Not everything is great, but nothing warrants programming out, either (unless you get bored).
"Texas Blues" does a good job showing how varied Johnny Winter's early sides were, and some fans may be surprised (and perhaps turned off) by soft pop ballads like "I Had To Cry", but Winter wasn't always a fiery blues guitarist, and this CD shows him in his late teens and early twenties finding his voice...a voice which is much less gruff and throaty, by the way, than what can be heard on his debut LP, 1969s "Johnny Winter".
The 40-track "Winter Essentials 1960-1967" is more thorough, and Johnny Winter's discography is huge and confusing, making it extremely difficult to gather up all of his earliest material without significant overlaps. But "Texas Blues" is a pretty good collection in its own right, even if most of the songs lack the personal touch of his later recordings.