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Johnny Winter - Hey, Where's Your Brother? Audio CD

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Johnny Winter Band: Johnny Winter
Title: Hey, Where's Your Brother?
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Release Date: 1992-11-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Johnny Guitar 2: She Likes to Boogie Real Low 3: White Line Blues 4: Please Come Home for Christmas 5: Hard Way 6: You Must Have a Twin 7: You Keep Sayin' That You're Leaving 8: Treat Me Like You Wanta 9: Sick and Tired 10: Blues This Bad 11: No More Doggin' 12: Check Out Her Mama 13: I Got My Brand on You 14: One Step Forward (Two Steps Back)

Full, deep, and rich
Acoustic piece? yup, and it's a goody. It's hard to think of any two other JW releases as full & rich as this one. Rock-out raves? Check. Swampy slide? Oh yeah, and it gets better each listen. Xmas song? Check . . . -- what? Oh yes, my friend; Johnny not only includes a seasonal favorite, but his brother joins to make it a truly classic performance. While he was at it, Edgar added some touches to a couple other pieces as well, but "Please Come Home For Christmas" is the obvious highlight.

Not that this release didn't have any without him: "Boogie Real Low" has the band stretching out behind Johnny's ferocious slide, which he whips out again for the faster-than-fast "You Must Have a Twin". Billy Branch adds some much-needed harmonica here and there, but the real star of this album is the man it should be: Johnny himself, whose playing sounds somehow deeper than ever before. It's not surprising that Johnny didn't make another record for several years after this; there just may not have been much left to say :).


Excellent blues
A friend suggested this as a good all around sample of his work. I had seen Johnny Winter at the SF Blues Festival and was blown away by him. I love every cut on the album.


JW @ his best
A must-have if your into Texas Guitar Boogie ala Billy Gibbons, SRV, & Albert King. Classic Johnny Winter at the top of his craft. Several notable tunes on this album including Check Out Her Momma, Blue Christmas, & Boogie Real Low. But really, there's not a throw away tune here. Tight band, Great guitar riffs.


Johnny Guitar
I watched his albums in stores but never listened to them. This is the first record of Johnny Winter that I heard. Then one of my friends gave it to me. I'm more fan of George Thorogood. But it is strange that when I put the cd in I can't take it out. There are few cathcy tunes, like the opener Johnny Guitar, She Likes to Boogie Real Low,. . . The cover of a christmas song Please Come Home for Christmas, that his duetting with his brother is kinda funny, but it's a good song anyway.


A mixed bag but worth the investment.
Jensens review. Yes, I agree with Mr. This one is a mixture. Johnny & Edgar do a duet on 'Please Come Home For Christmas', and strangely enough, Bon Jovi also did the same song almost simultaneously and released it as a single at the end of that same year. Of course, Johnny & Edgar Winter had been doing this song together probably since they were 10 yrs old since there are earlier versions available of them singing it. Definitely a nod in the direction of Charles Brown. Johnnys version of T. Bone Walkers "Hard Way' is barnstorming.
There are some points where Johnny appears to be going through the motions, but then he makes up for it with the dynamic slow blues 'You keep sayin'that you are leavin''- what a gem! The lyrics are so true to life and humourous. . the guitar work is blistering.
'Check out her mama' is another high point. You wouldn't be disappointed when buying this one and it's one of the last occasions where you hear JW at full throttle*. It was almost a continuation of Johnnys former c. d. 'Let Me In', and he did really well in keeping the same feel.
**Johnnys next CD would be years later " Live In New York" on which he sounds heavily medicated and a shadow of his former self.


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