The Johnny Winter Anthology

Performer: Johnny Winter
Distributor: Sony Music Entertainment

Notes: Johnny Winter has been delivering his hard-edged brand of Texas blues to the world at large since the 1960s, and this two-disc collection covers nearly every phase of his long career. Winter's blues roots were so deep that he was able to produce and play on some of Muddy Waters' greatest latter-day records, but as we hear over the course of THE JOHNNY WINTER ANTHOLOGY, he often hopped back and forth across the line between blues and rock. He brings a rock & roll energy and freneticism to blues standards like "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'," but his take on blues-rock is more rooted than most, even when he's pushing the pedal to the floor on a cover of Rick Derringer's classic-rock chestnut "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo."

Dirty Linen (p.54) - "With his covers of 'Highway 61 Revisited' and 'Like a Rolling Stone,' Winter turns Dylan's songs into personal statements of his own."

Texan blues guitarist Johnny Winter, surely the first albino blues guitar hero, was already a convincing artist in the '60s when still in his teens. At the dawn of the '70s, he embraced the sound of the time, adopting a louder, more frenetic blues-rock style. Backed by the McCoys, including guitarist Rick Derringer, he released a series of classic blues-rock albums, while his keyboard-playing brother Edgar, with whom Johnny played on and off over the years, achieved stardom in his own right. At the end of the '70s, Winter produced Muddy Waters, helping him make a triumphant comeback. In the ensuing decades, Winter maintained a prolific schedule of touring and recording.

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