Johnny Winter (album)

Johnny Winter
Studio album by Johnny Winter
Released	April 1969
Recorded	February–March, 1969 in Nashville
Genre	Electric blues, blues-rock
Length	34:13
Label	Columbia
Producer	Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter chronology
The Progressive Blues Experiment (1969) Johnny Winter (1969) Second Winter (1969)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	(negative) [2]
Pop Matters	(Favorable)[3]
sputnikmusic	[4]

Johnny Winter is Johnny Winter's second studio album, released in 1969. UK CBS issued this with nine tracks in late 1969 in both stereo and mono (S63619/M63619). This album may have been intended as a Quadraphonic album as a four-channel reel was prepared but to this day remains unreleased.

Track listing

1. "I'm Yours & I'm Hers" (Johnny Winter) – 4:33
2. "Be Careful with a Fool" (Joe Josea, B. B. King) – 5:17
3. "Dallas" (Johnny Winter) – 2:48
4. "Mean Mistreater" (James Gordon) – 3:54
5. "Leland Mississippi Blues" (Johnny Winter) – 3:32
6. "Good Morning Little School Girl" – (Sonny Boy Williamson) – 2:45
7. "When You Got a Good Friend" (Robert Johnson) – 3:41
8. "I'll Drown in My Tears" (Henry Glover) – 4:46
9. "Back Door Friend" (Lightnin' Hopkins, Stan Lewis) – 2:55

2004 reissue bonus tracks

10. "Country Girl" (B.B. King) – 3:08
11. "Dallas" (Johnny Winter) – 3:37
12. "Two Steps from the Blues" (John Riley Brown, Deadric Malone) – 2:35

Personnel

Adapted from Discogs.^[5]

• Johnny Winter – lead guitar, slide guitar, harmonica, vocals
• Uncle John Turner – percussion
• Tommy Shannon – bass
• Edgar Winter – keyboards on "I'll Drown in My Tears", alto saxophone on "Good Morning Little School Girl"
• Elsie Senter – backing vocals on "I'll Drown in My Tears"
• Carrie Hossel – backing vocals on "I'll Drown in My Tears"
• Peggy Bowers – backing vocals on "I'll Drown in My Tears"
• Stephen Ralph Sefsik – alto saxophone on "I'll Drown in My Tears"
• Norman Ray – baritone saxophone on "I'll Drown in My Tears"
• Walter "Shakey" Horton – harmonica on "Mean Mistreater"
• Willie Dixon – acoustic bass on "Mean Mistreater"
• Karl Garin – trumpet on "Good Morning Little School Girl"
• A. Wynn Butler – tenor saxophone on "Good Morning Little School Girl"

Production

• Johnny Winter – producer
• Eddie Kramer – production consultant
• Marvin Devonish – production assistant
• Steve Paul – spiritual producer

References