Johnny Winter

Yes, he is. In this long-awaited return album, Johnny Winter takes up where he left off. His
fingers are fleet and sure as ever, his vocals have bite and growl, and the flash and power
of yore are hanging right in there. Winter wrote two of the ten tracks, most are more rock
than heavily blues oriented, and all feature bassman Randy Jo Hobbs and drummer Richard
Hughes. Producer and former guitar partner Rick Derringer is heard on a few tra... More >

Winter will never be an especially personable singer, but I like what's he's putting out on this monkey-off-my-comeback: two late-Stones covers, plenty of slide, and a good helping of nasty. Nastiest: the Delta-styled "Too Much Seconal" and "Ain't Nothing to Me," dedicated to the subversive notion that sometimes the impassivity of country music is a little sadistic. White blues lives: the best and heaviest track is a Hoodoo Rhythm Devils song. (Grade: B+)