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- Date Released: February 28, 2006
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Rock
- Label: Fuel 2000 / The Orchard
Early cuts from the famed albino bluesman, collected.
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We Say...
These 1960-67 sides, released mostly on obscure Texas labels, don’t always have the flash or technique of Johnny Winter's initial output after he became a star, but they carry at least as much feeling, and are often more fun. “Ease My Pain” represents the era’s white blues revival at its best, while the jumping, fluid “Creepy” is anything but.
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They Say...
Fuel's Introduction to Johnny Winter is not a compilation of hits from his Columbia and Blue Sky sides, but an actual intro. These sides were recorded between 1960 and 1967 for the Dart, KCRO, Frolic, Todd, Hall-Way, and Pacemaker labels -- in other words, virtually his entire recorded output prior to his Progressive Blues Experiment long-player in 1967. The music here is raw electric blues, R&B, and even a few early rock tunes thrown into the mix. The cover of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "Broke and Lonely" is a highlight, as is the burning instrumental cover of Chuck Berry's "Reelin' and Rockin." "Ease My Pain" is a primitive but fantastic model for what was to come in the late '60s on Columbia. A few tunes, such as "Eternally" and "You'll Be the Death of Me," were originally issued by Frolic, but picked up by Atlantic for national distribution. "Gone for Bad" and "I Had to Cry" were issued on MGM. Neither single charted; Winter was dropped. These 18 tunes are a fine document, a lost highway to the past. Given the role Winter played in the electric blues and its mass acceptance in America, these tunes serve not as some inferior or embarrassing document, but the thing itself, raw and undiluted.
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| 01. |  |
Creepy |
2:10 |  |
| 02. | |
School Day Blues |
1:58 | |
| 03. | |
You Know I Love You |
2:52 | |
| 04. | |
That's What Love Does |
2:19 | |
| 05. | |
Shed So Many Tears |
2:17 | |
| 06. | |
Ease My Pain |
3:07 | |
| 07. | |
Road Runner |
2:03 | |
| 08. | |
The Guy You Left Behind |
2:30 | |
| 09. | |
Broke and Lonely |
2:25 | |
| 10. | |
Crying In My Heart |
2:39 | |
| 11. | |
Reeling and Rocking |
2:03 | |
| 12. | |
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye |
2:39 | |
| 13. | |
Gangster Of Love |
2:28 | |
| 14. | |
Eternally |
2:32 | |
| 15. | |
You'll Be The Death Of Me |
2:36 | |
| 16. | |
I Had To Cry |
1:55 | |
| 17. | |
Gone For Bad |
2:23 | |
| 18. | |
Leavin' Blues |
2:47 | |
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