5/30/2023 0 Comments Johnny winter live albums![]() ![]() "Dickey Lee, the guy who had out a song called 'Patches' years ago, he sang in the background chorus on that song."Frolic paired it with Winter's own Eternally, but when Ritter leased Eternallyto Atlantic, he coupled it with the garage-rocking Winter original You'll Be The Death Of Me. ![]() "That particular song I love,"says Johnny. He'd say, 'Well, I've got a lot of expenses, kid.'" Ritter leased Johnny's Gone For Bad to MGM but held onto Winter’s 1964 cover of Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s boastful ’57 Keen platter Gangster Of Love for Frolic (multi-instrumentalist Edgar devised the horn chart). ![]() I don't know how much Ken made, but he'd always get a little money in front. "Ken Ritter was my manager, and he would lease the records," says Johnny. Ken Ritter, nephew of Western star Tex Ritter, produced several early Winter 45s for his KRCO and Frolic labels, ranging from lowdown swamp blues to catchy instrumentals and pop-accessible pieces. He said, 'Great! We'll record 'em!' We couldn't even believe it,"says Winter, whose debut offering came out on the Dart label in 1960. The band headed to Bill Hall's Gulf Coast Recording Studio in Beaumont to lay down School Day Blues and a flip, Edgar manning the 88s. There wasn't anybody near as good as I was at that point." You couldn't use a group you had to get up there and just sing and play guitar,"says Johnny. The two Winters formed Johnny and The Jammers when Johnny was only 14 and snared their first record contract through a contest built around the 1959 rock and roll film 'Go, Johnny Go!' "As kind of a gimmick that went along with the movie, they had this contest called the Johnny Melody Contest. "He was one of the first blues musicians that I actually got to see and watch close up and learn from. So I'd be staying over at her place, and I could just walk over two doors and see Clarence,"says Johnny. " The radio station then was like two doors down from where my grandmother lived. Johnny listened regularly to Beaumont blues guitarist Clarence Garlow's KJET radio program. By decade's end, the whole world would know Johnny Winter, but when he raucously revived Johnny 'Guitar' Watson's Gangster Of Love for Ken Ritter's Frolic label in 1964, Winter was a regional phenomenon.īorn Februin Beaumont, Texas, Johnny and his younger brother Edgar grew up loving the blues. The standard deviation for this album is 11.0.Albino kid with enough heat in his fingers to melt a guitar neck shook up the Gulf Coast during the early '60s. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.3/100, a mean average of 78.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.0/100. This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on. (*In practice, some albums can have several thousand ratings) The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation). However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. You can include this album in your own chart from the My Charts page! Live Johnny Winter And collection Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. Most listened to albums by male artists, Aug 2021 Latest 20 charts that this album appears in: Sort ranksĬlassic Rock: 23 Greatest Live Blues Albums ![]()
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