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The 1985 follow-up to Johnny Winter's terrific comeback album GUITAR SLINGER, SERIOUS BUSINESS continues the artistic renaissance of its predecessor. Released on the influential blues indie Alligator Records, SERIOUS BUSINESS is a much more straightforward blues-based work than Winter's better-known '70s blues-rock albums for Columbia. Live-sounding and unpretentiously produced--don't let the mid-'80s recording date fool you, there are no electronic drums or MIDI synths to be found--SERIOUS BUSINESS is a player's album.
Playing strictly electric this time out, Winter turns the songs into vehicles for lengthier-than-usual solos. Nevertheless, the solos are as well constructed as his more concise work; there's no aimless noodling here. A particular highlight is the fleet-fingered, bluegrass-like electric solo on the rocking title track, which closes the album on a high note. Recommended for guitar aficionados everywhere.
Recorded at Streeterville Studios, Chicago, Illinois.
Personnel: Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar); Jon Paris (harmonica); Ken Saydak (piano); Johnny B. Gayden (bass); Casey Jones (drums).
Producers: Johnny Winter, Bruce Iglauer, Dick Shurman.
Johnny Winter Serious Business Songs Serious Business Music Review Purchase Serious Business CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Johnny Winter Guitar Slinger CD (1984)
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$14.55 Remarkably pale and frighteningly skinny--some artists shouldn't be allowed to pose for album covers with their shirts off--Johnny Winter is still a hell of a guitar player, and 1984's GUITAR SLINGER is among his best efforts. Showing up after a string of lackluster albums to reclaim his crown from a similarly butt-ugly young Texas buck name of Stevie ...
| | Johnny Winter Third Degree CD (1986)
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$14.59 The third home run in a row for an artistically revitalized Johnny Winter, 1986's THIRD DEGREE follows 1985's SERIOUS BUSINESS and 1984's GUITAR SLINGER as a stripped-down, no-nonsense serving of Texas-style blues rock. As on its predecessors, the emphasis here is on the blues side of the equation, with Winter originals and a sterling choice of covers fighting for equal time. The covers are exemplary, far better than the usual rote homages found on so many blues albums. Elmore James' classic "Shake Your Moneymaker" sounds so fresh it's almost as if Winter and his backing trio, featuring the Otis Spann-style playing of ...
| | Johnny Winter Let Me In CD (1991)
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$9.09 One of Johnny Winter's relatively few major-label albums since leaving Columbia in the late '70s, 1991's LET ME IN is happily free of any attempts to enhance his blues-rock sound with slick embellishments. Surrounded by a tight band featuring a full horn section, Winter plays and sings in his usual style, with a minimum of flash--Winter's probably the most economical blues-rock guitarist there is--and plenty of good humor.
The surprise is in Winter's vocals. Stuck with a fairly thin and reedy voice, he has never been as adept a singer as he is a guitarist, but on LET ME IN, his voice has a newfound power and authority. His renditions of the standards "Illustrated Man" and "Life Is Hard" are so sure and true that they sound like originals. There's also the bonus of Dr. John adding his patented New Orleans voodoo boogie to four tracks.
Recorded at Streeterville, Chicago, Illinois.
Personnel: Johnny Winter (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric ...
| | Johnny Winter Still Alive And Well CD (1973)
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$6.79 You might mistake this for a live record, but this is actually a 1973 studio release by the Texas blues guitar master. Winter's first release after a brief retirement/drying-out period, STILL ALIVE AND WELL, from the title on down, has the feeling of a major comeback, although Winter really hadn't been gone for very long. Looking hale and hearty on the cover--or as hale and hearty as a rail-thin albino can look, anyway--Winter sounds equally fit on the songs themselves. Produced by his longtime collaborator Rick Derringer, who also leads the tight and flashy band with his rhythm and second lead playing, the album is possibly the most pop-oriented release of Winter's tenure at Columbia. The band, which features Todd Rundgren on synthesizers and Mellotron (on a Johnny Winter album???) and Rundgren's associate Mark "Moogy" Klingman on piano, is probably mostly responsible for this, but Winter's amiable versions of the Stones' "Silver Train" and "Let It Bleed," along with Dan Hartman's "Can't You Feel It," are among ...
| | Johnny Winter Live Bootleg Series Volume One CD (2007)
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$12.85 The most important thing to know about this Live Bootleg Series by Johnny Winter is that these are officially released tapes by him and he produced these recordings. These are not bootlegs in the sense of the word we have used it since the 1960s. That said, on this first volume, Winter goes back into his personal archive and pulls out various performances from his long career, and these are from the early '70s when he was so deeply drawn to ...
| | Jump, Jive & Swing CD (1999) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Golden Earring Seven Tears CD (1971) (Import) Netherlands
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$19.99 Seven Tears finds Golden Earring continuing to develop its distinctive blend of hard rock and prog elements, but the end result is not as consistent as 1970's Golden Earring. The big problem this time out is that the group's adventurous genre-hopping tendencies don't always result in strong songs: "Silver Ships" is a soft, science fiction-influenced song that generates a potent atmosphere but lacks the strong arrangement and sense of dynamics that would allow it to take flight, and "You're Better Off Free" loses sight of its catchy tune with a lengthy midsection guitar jam that derails an otherwise interesting song. Despite these problems, Seven Tears shows a band willing to take big risks to transform its combination of elements into a totally unique style. When this alchemy works, the results are quite good: "The Road Swallowed Her Name" effectively blends a heavy guitar riff worthy of Black Sabbath with psychedelic lyrics and percussion, and "Hope" generates the down-and-out feeling of its lyrics with a descending saxophone riff guaranteed ...
| | South Side Chicago Blues CD (2005)
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$6.99 While it's true that most Chicago blues fans will have many if not all of these tracks, there is something very satisfying about the way this compilation has been assembled by Delmark, which issued it as part of the label's 50th anniversary celebration. With Little Walter, Byther Smith, J.B. Hutto (doing his awesome "Slidewinder"), Junior Wells, Jimmy Rogers, Robert Jr. Lockwood, and Sunnyland Slim on the same disc, it's already a party. Add to that Big Time Sarah and Carey and Lurrie Bell (separately), and it goes over the top. This is a burning-to-the-bone selection of Chicago blues from the city's south side, where everything comes down to sweat, groove, and feel. There are enough ...
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