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Johnny Winter - Still Alive and Well Audio CD

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Johnny Winter Band: Johnny Winter
Title: Still Alive and Well
Rating:
Release Date: 1994-09-06
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Rock Me Baby 2: Can't You Feel It 3: Cheap Tequila 4: All Tore Down 5: Rock & Roll 6: Silver Train 7: Ain't Nothing to Me 8: Still Alive & Well 9: Too Much Seconal 10: Let It Bleed 11: Lucille [*] 12: From a Buick 6 [*]

Great Johnny Release with Additional Cuts
His song choices include a smoking version of the Rick Derringer song "Still Alive and Well", his own country honk on "Cheap Tequilla", and great versions of the Stones "Silver Train". This is a great Johnny release, that features his slide playing and voice when they were still classic. "It Ain't Nothing To Me" is another country influenced tune. This includes a smoking version of the Dylan song, "From a Buick 6" which is a perfect choice for Johnny. This is one of the better Johnny Winter studio releases.


Johnny at his best
Silver Train was written by Jaggr/Richards but Johnny brings out the power of the song like nobody else can. Johnny Winter puts down some excellent tracks that fuse Blues and rock and even a little country flair. "Cheap Tequila" is as fine a blues/rock as can be found. The guitar is soaring and haunting at once. A well thought out line up of songs keeps the album entertaining from begining to end. A must for the Johnny Winter fan.


Wow! Just a Superb Album!
If you like JW and don't own this CD, just buy it now! . Johnny has had many ups and downs throughout his recording career, but this album is, from start to finish, just fantastic.


(4.5 stars) THE BAD BOY OF BLUES/ROCK IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL ! (Rick Derringer produced one of Johnny's best albums ever)
Places where people's lives aren't what they should be. One of the most important things about Johnny Winter's rugged brand of the blues is that Johnny isn't afraid to go to places where the blues actually live in real ways. Places where booze and drugs offer temporary relief from hopelessness, where bad relationships wreck dreams, and working too hard for too little pay wears people down and out. Without acknowledging the pain and suffering that gave birth to the blues, the music becomes an "art form" and a sanitized imitation of the real thing. Johnny Winter is definitely not about sanitized imitations.

On Still Alive And Well (1973), not only does Johnny play the blues in an authentically rugged way, but he plays high energy rock n' roll and hippie barstool country the same way. Among the rock songs here are great rousing and rocking versions of Rock Me Baby, Rock & Roll and Can't You Feel It. Blistering guitar licks and screaming vocals abound. Cheap Tequila is a very strong ballad (and a rare treat, as Johnny doesn't do many ballads), and one of my favorites here. Winter does two Rolling Stones covers, Let It Bleed and Silver Train, and they're both just as good (even better in some places) as the originals. Too Much Seconal is down and dirty acoustic blues, with acoustic slide, mandolin, flute and lyrics from life on the wrong side.

Oh baby, I don't believe you're no good at all
No, you keep drinkin' too much whiskey
You're takin' too much seconal

Of course, Winter's guitar work on Still Alive And Well is also outstanding, to say the least. Johnny is one of the very best guitarists in a generation of rock's greatest guitarists. Rock n' roller Rick Derringer (Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo) produced this album, and really brought out the rock n' roll side of Johnny Winter. The album has all of the energy of a rock n' roll production. The bad boy of blues/rock is rugged, raunchy and screaming loud on this one, and if you don't mind a little harsh reality with your blues/rock, then you really can't go wrong with Still Alive And Well. AND TURN IT UP LOUD!!




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4.5 stars


Covers of B. Man does Johnny Winter fire on all cylinders on this one, or what! This album is non-stop energy, front to back, and just an all around rockin' good time. B. King's "Rock Me Baby" and The Rolling Stones' "Let it Bleed" play well as bookends on an album that's chock full of great tunes, as Winter's playing breathes new life into these songs.

This is a can't miss album for blues fans and rock fans. Top notch!.


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