Johnny Winter – Second Winter

Terrific album, don't miss it. Definitely mixed for speed lovers! And the blank LP side is great for adjusting the anti-skating on your turntable too!

This is a great blues and rocking album. It is raw, but done really wells in a great studio in Nashville.

Recorded in Nashville during the summer of 1969, "Second winter" marks the extension of Johnny's original rock blues trio to his brother Edgar, so adding keyboards and wind instruments to the mix, dramatically broadening the sound and genre possibilities. Produced by the brothers themselves, the lp has the merit to expand the limitations of the blues rock format towards psychedelia operating also on the instruments tone saturation and sound compression, till exaggerating in the mix balance certain inputs at the expense of others, in order to confer a peculiar savour, mood, rawness or excitement to every track. An avantgard example of post modern rock blues is the guitar compressed sound on the Percy Mayfield cover "Memory pain" in which the abrasive vocals of the leader clashes against saturated bending notes, above the irregular syncopated drums tempo kept by 'Uncle' John Turner and caked through the thick Noel Redding styled bass line played by Tommy Shannon. Psychedelic blues colours both the Johnny penned "I'm not sure" (with an electrified mandolin heavily slapped in front of the mix) and the wah wah buried "The good love". Then we have a '50s flavoured r'n'b/rock'n'roll section ("Slippin' and slidin'", "Miss Ann" and the quite predictable "Johnny B. Goode") where Edgar showcases his multi-instrumentalist gifts. Johnny's fondness for Bob Dylan brings to the "Highway 61 revisited" cover, characterized by a razor-sharp slide guitar running wild in this guitar god hands. I think side 3 is the most interesting part of the record, consisting of all Johnny Winter's original compositions, from the best slide licks ever recorded by Winter in the fantastic "I love everybody", the frantic hyper fluent soloing wild ride of "Hustled down in Texas", the jazzy uptempo "I hate everybody" to the final experimental beast of "Fast life rider". This lp vies for the title of best ever Johnny Winter studio album with its main competitor 1970's "Johnny Winter and" which, if less adventurous, focuses more on songwriting and state of the art arrangements. 5/5.

This is really starting to suck!!!!!!! Is there any way I can get something with the original timings (Miss Ann and Johnny B. Goode respectively)?!! All that's available these days is even the 180 gram vinyl version with the extended version of Miss Ann and the 2:46 version of JBG!! I wish the record labels would leave the order alone!! I mean, there's a reason why these versions weren't used before!! Number one, they SUCK!!!!

In my copy somes songs are in stereo, others in mono. Not sure that exists a totally 100% mono copy.

Edgar Winter's 'Frankenstein' track is performed here live with a drum solo running at an incredible duration of over 5 mins!

Anyone notice in some weird panning on Track A1 Memory Pain. It's like the soundstage constricts and releases a number of times. Also gives the image of Winter switching speakers in the studio. I'm wondering if these are edits from different takes.

What is the meaning the regular Columbia Red Labels when there are been 2 or 3 in Canada, from the 50's to today? So i wouldn't call the Columbia lettered in yellow on red absolutely a classic. Without pictures and runout this is an uncleared item

This 'Original Master Recording' version of this album: (Johnny Winter - Second Winter)
is by far the best sounding quality version of this 'Classic Album'
This version captures all of the 'Dynamics' a true audiophile listens for.
You do not have to crank up the volume on this version because it has a 'Full-Dynamic Range'
'High Fidelity' Recordings do not require pushing your AMP/Receiver too hard.

This version is a 'REAL' treat to all 'Critical' listeners from all parts of the globe!
Get this 'Version' while you still can!!!