Captured Live!

Performer: Johnny Winter
Producer: Johnny Winter
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Also available in a 3-pack with JOHNNY WINTER and SECOND WINTER on Columbia (65399). Also available with STILL ALIVE AND WELL on BGO (478). Personnel includes: Johnny Winter, Randy Jo Hobbs, Richard Hughes, Floyd Radford. A classic live album, 1976's CAPTURED LIVE is worlds better than the majority of Johnny Winter concert documents available. Recorded at the height of Winter's commercial success in front of a wildly enthusiastic crowd, CAPTURED LIVE shows the Texas bluesman at his finest. Fronting a scorching quartet, Winter plays compact, expressive solos with just enough flash and a minimum of self-indulgence. The six lengthy tracks feature as much solid ensemble playing as they do solo showboating, quite unusual for a '70s guitar boogie album. The set list is heavy on the covers, ranging from a killer rave-up on "Highway 61 Revisited," on which the band sounds like Dylan's Hawks, to a looser, good-humored take on Bobby Womack's oft-covered "It's All Over Now."

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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