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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By kkaammyy
Format:Audio CD
I think this LP came out in '71 and I discovered it in '73 having been introdiced via 'Still Alive and Well'. Wow, what a difference two years make! From the hard rock of SAAW, this was much gentler (and for the most part) phazed, psychedelic funky-blues rock. This album became my 'authentic' sound of the era I'd missed through being just a little too young.
'Funky music' blew me away with its 'stereo' guitar, i.e. two completely different squarking solos going off in each speaker.
The solo at the end of 'Nothing Left' was spellbinding.
Although they didn't really feature guitar solos, I really loved 'No Time To live' with its beyond blues-style despair...and 'let The Music Play' was lush, soulful blues with female backing vocals.
'R&R Hoochie Koo' has become a classic.
There were a couple of stinkers on the album (inc. on the limb), but over the years, I've grown to love them all.
There was never another JW album quite like this and I don't know if anyone else, Hendrix included, quite mastered this degree of psychedelia all in one place(?)
I guess it is very (very) dated now, but if you are just getting into the man Winter, then this is as different as it gets until he dabbles with phazed blues on John Dawson Winter III.
I love it
'Funky music' blew me away with its 'stereo' guitar, i.e. two completely different squarking solos going off in each speaker.
The solo at the end of 'Nothing Left' was spellbinding.
Although they didn't really feature guitar solos, I really loved 'No Time To live' with its beyond blues-style despair...and 'let The Music Play' was lush, soulful blues with female backing vocals.
'R&R Hoochie Koo' has become a classic.
There were a couple of stinkers on the album (inc. on the limb), but over the years, I've grown to love them all.
There was never another JW album quite like this and I don't know if anyone else, Hendrix included, quite mastered this degree of psychedelia all in one place(?)
I guess it is very (very) dated now, but if you are just getting into the man Winter, then this is as different as it gets until he dabbles with phazed blues on John Dawson Winter III.
I love it
By Clive Paxton
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you like loud but subtle guitarwork give this a listen. One of my favourites from university.
Quality is surprisingly good for it's age.
Quality is surprisingly good for it's age.
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4.6 out of 5 stars
27 reviews
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Winter Rocks Out
25 April 2001
By Daniel C. Rowe
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Format:Audio CD
The only Johnny Winter album with no blues tunes, it was cut on a single day. The rapport between Derringer and Winter is incredible! I love the funk of "Ain't That A Kindness", and the soulful vocal on "No Time To Live". But my two favorite tracks are probably "Nothing Left" and "Prodigal Son", two Winter originals that show he could write heavy tunes with the best of them. Some real Hendrix influences on several tracks. A fantastic record, but the CD is not as clear as it should be.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just A Little More...
13 Oct 2004
By Sal Paradise
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Format:Audio CD
The preceding reviewers have perfectly assembled the essential greatness of this record. Buy it. Buy it now! Johnny Winter is simply one of the best guitarists of all time! I first saw him in 1969 at the Denver Pop Festival...an incredible bonus to my pilgrimage to see Jimi. Johnny was a blues purist yet to be fully amped up which, at 16, I could not yet appreciate. But from a steady diet of Hendrix, supplemented with licks from Cream and morsels from Zappa, I had a pretty good idea of what great guitarists were all about. Johnny Winter had it all.
A year later, I saw Johnny Winter And touring on this record at the old KRNT theatre in Des Moines. Unbelievable! As the previous reviewer suggested of the show he saw at the Fillmore: maximum decibels delivering maximum pleasure. Winter and Rick Derringer live was a wonder to behold. I bought this record just before the concert and, over the next year, I listened to it constantly. Still do.
Now, 35 years later, all the great things said before remain true. And the only addition I can make to the insights that my predecessors have made is that the vocal work on this record is a magnificent time capsule of a style of singing unique to rock recordings at the beginning of the '70s. "Am I Here" and, even more so, "Out On A Limb" showcase this style. It is a lost art but anyone who lived through the period knows it as organic when they hear it.
Johnny Winter has made great music all of his professional life and guitar fans know him to be one of the true masters. This record is essential for so many reasons, not the least of which is that you know how he got here from there.
A year later, I saw Johnny Winter And touring on this record at the old KRNT theatre in Des Moines. Unbelievable! As the previous reviewer suggested of the show he saw at the Fillmore: maximum decibels delivering maximum pleasure. Winter and Rick Derringer live was a wonder to behold. I bought this record just before the concert and, over the next year, I listened to it constantly. Still do.
Now, 35 years later, all the great things said before remain true. And the only addition I can make to the insights that my predecessors have made is that the vocal work on this record is a magnificent time capsule of a style of singing unique to rock recordings at the beginning of the '70s. "Am I Here" and, even more so, "Out On A Limb" showcase this style. It is a lost art but anyone who lived through the period knows it as organic when they hear it.
Johnny Winter has made great music all of his professional life and guitar fans know him to be one of the true masters. This record is essential for so many reasons, not the least of which is that you know how he got here from there.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Totally Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
28 Sep 2004
By J. R Sategna
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you love Johnny Winter and love guitar jams you will love this--the sound,however, is not as great as the LP-this should be remastered--hopefully the domestic version will be remastered when it is released. Rick Derringer and Winter go thru some nice guitar battles on this CD--the tunes are great-well written--Funky Music is a 6 minute guitar battle that fades out at the end (why is this? Should have kept going)I saw Johnny Winter And at the Fillmore when this LP came out-it was great-2 hr set -2 sets-my ears were wrecked-could hardly hear for two days after---so loud---GET THIS CD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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