Progressive Blues Experiment (Remastered) Johnny Winter

• 1 Rollin' And Tumblin' (2004 Digital Remaster) 03:09
• 2 Tribute To Muddy (2004 Digital Remaster) 06:20
• 3 I Got Love If You Want It (2004 Digital Remaster) 03:52
• 4 Bad Luck And Trouble (2004 Digital Remaster) 03:40
• 5 Help Me (2004 Digital Remaster) 03:46
• 6 Mean Town Blues (2004 Digital Remaster) 04:26
• 7 Broke Down Engine (2004 Digital Remaster) 02:47
• 8 Black Cat Bone (2004 Digital Remaster) 03:46
• 9 It's My Own Fault (2004 Digital Remaster) 07:18
• 10 Forty-Four (2004 Digital Remaster) 03:28
• Total Runtime 42:32

Info zu Progressive Blues Experiment (Remastered)

Most Johnny Winter Fans consider “The Progressive Blues Experiment” one of Johnny Winter’s best albums if not the best.

Originally “The Progressive Blues Experiment” was recorded on the Sonobeat label during October 1968 and the rights were obtained by Imperial which released the album in March 1969, just before Johnny released his self-titled (aka Black Album) in April 1969.

In 1968, Johnny began playing in a trio with bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Uncle John Turner. Their shows at Austin’s Vulcan Gas Company and Houston’s Love Street Light Circus, attracted the attention of a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, who had been writing an article about the Texas hippie scene. The author devoted three paragraphs to Johnny, whom he referred to as “the hottest item outside of Janis Joplin”. The article brought nation wide attention to the album “The Progressive Blues Experiment”, a collection of songs that Johnny’s trio had recorded live at the Vulcan Gas Company, which was quickly picked up for national release by Imperial.

Johnny Winter had grown up in Beaumont, Texas, and recorded many records for local labels in the early ’60s, but real success had eluded him. In 1968 he decided to try the blossoming hippie scene in Austin with at a hard-driving blues/rock band called simply “Winter”, Tommy Shannon and John Turner supplied the backing and the group played many shows around town. Bill Josey heard of this terrific band and in checking with Johnny found he was free of contracts. Josey immediately signed him to a short term deal and recorded several tracks at the Vulcan Gas Co..

A single was released, #197 “Mean Town Blues/Rollin’ N’ Tumblin'”, but other people were amazed by this incredible guitar player and the Johnny Winter publicity campaign started rolling. Rolling Stone did a story on Texas that featured Johnny (Larry Sepulvado of Mother Magazine wrote quite a bit of that Texas issue for R.S.). Steve Paul, of NYC, got interested and put Winter under an exclusive management contract, then the record company bidding began. Meanwhile Sonobeat pressed up a couple hundred demo LPs of “Winter” and passed them around.

Some were sold through local stores and the mail, but it was a simple white jacket advance album designed to stir up record company interest. After the dust had settled, Johnny was with Columbia and the Sonobeat LP had been bought by United Artists. It was issued on Imperial as “The Progressive Blues Experiment” and several years later reissued on UA as “Johnny Winter — Austin, Texas”

"Although his early Columbia albums brought him worldwide stardom, it was this modest little album (first released on Imperial before the Columbia sides) that first brought Johnny Winter to the attention of guitarheads in America. It's also Winter at the beginning of a long career, playing the blues as if his life depends on it, without applying a glimmer of rock commercialism. The standard classic repertoire here includes "Rollin' and Tumblin'," "I Got Love if You Want It," "Forty-Four," "It's My Own Fault," and "Help Me," with Winter mixing it up with his original Texas trio of Red Turner on drums and Tommy Shannon (later of Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble) on bass. A true classic, this is one dirty, dangerous, and visionary album." (Cub Koda, AMG)

Johnny Winter, vocals, electric guitar, National steel guitar, mandolin, harmonica
Tommy Shannon, bass
John "Red" Turner, drums

Produced by Bill Josey, Rim Kelley

Digitally remastered

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