John Dawson Winter III

Inventing a new rating for this one - the 3+. Anything wrong here? Nope! Anything that moving to me here? Nope! Blues rock straight forward that played and I had a good time but probably no inkling to need to return

Texas mother fuckers

I think this guys like rock and roll. And Scientology but that’s beside the point

I completely forgot about this guy. I saw him twice live at music festivals back in the day but never more. Should have checked him out earlier because this was just some great blues rock. My personal rating: 5/5 My rating relative to the list: 5/5 Should this have been included on the original list? Slight yes.

Didn’t realize Edgar Winter had an older brother… not sure I’ve ever heard Johnny Winter play before. Several songs seemed familiar to me but not familiar enough that I can tell whether I’ve heard these particular versions before or not. For some reason this project has made me into a person who loves guitar solos and the solos on this were excellent! “Lay Down Your Sorrows” was probably my favorite song on here, but I enjoyed the whole listen.

Kinda forgot about Johnny Winter. If I have one negative thing to say about this, it's that a lot of the lyrics (particularly inclined the first half) are about as close to empty of content as it's possible to be. Rockin' and a rollin' and the boogie and blues. This improves on the album's flip side. But the flawless construction and virtuoso guitar (and overall rock solid musicianship) carry it all, and after all not all rock has to be smart. For this era of hard rocking bluesy pop this is first tier product.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Rock & roll people, Golden olden days of rock & roll, Mind over matter, Roll with me

Big fun of the cover. It was pretty fun to listen to too

Blues, blues rock, rock and roll, Southern rock, country blues. Me ha gustado. Un 4.

Nice old school blues and rock 'n roll

They say "write what you know", so here's an entire album that's just about rock and roll.

Great fun.

This is kinda cool. 3/5.

I really admire Johnny Winter as a guitar player. Too bad that his songwriting skills are not of the same level. This is a decent, but predictable and not adventurous blues rock album with great guitar play and solo’s.

Misread this as Edgar Winter and so I started out disappointed. But this quickly won me over! Good clean fun rock and roll.

At the time, this was probably an instrumental foray into 70s blues rock, but it sounds de rigeur now.

I don't think I have ever listened to a full album by Johnny Winter, so thanks for this. This is an easygoing, enjoyable collection of bluesy rock and roll, suitable for rocking out and riding around on a summer afternoon with the wind in your hair. The album loses a bit of focus/steam somewhere in the middle, but recovers nicely in the final three tracks for a solid finish. In addition to his own considerable musical chops, Winter has an exceptional band backing him up, including brother Edgar and Rick Derringer. Great stuff. Fave Songs: Lay Down Your Sorrows, Rock & Roll People, Pick Up on My Mojo, Stranger, Sweet Papa John, Self-Destructive Blues

Good, blues-based rock 'n' roll. 3 stars.

A good classic rock blues album that is pretty straightforward rock and roll guitar work. Shocked I haven’t heard of this guy before because he sounds like he could have his songs played on classic rock radio channels all the time. Either way this was a nice addition. Guys pretty solid but nothing amazing or groundbreaking seven album goes. 6.5/10

Album art is agressively misdirective, which is fun, as is the album itself (fun, not misdirective). Maybe not groundbreaking but sometimes you just gotta let the good times roll.

Starting with a solo tells one everything one needs to know about where this is headed. The playing may be bad ass (or whatever would have been the right adjective in ‘74) but it seems mostly troglodytic and cliched today, with nearly every song sounding samey, in same tone and tenor, with too many about rock and roll (always a bad sign). And it’s this kind of record that gives anti-rockists fodder for their arguments, surely. Best songs are those that vary from the template -- "Lay Down Your Sorrow" and "Love Song to Me." Also, this is just not one’s thing. As there’s plenty of this already on list proper, one can’t in good faith recommend its inclusion. Cover might be best thing about the record.

Real nice

I'm *very* curious about what kind of reception this got when this came out. It's doing like self-aware throwback (relative to the 70s) blues rock. I have no familiarity with Winter, so I wondered at first if this would have been a nostagia-bait thing, but from reading his wikipedia, seems like it's more of a last call for a fading star situation.

Apart from the jarring country number randomly included in a collection of otherwise perfectly acceptable blues tracks, this is a fine record. Not great, as far as I can tell. But very much fine.

Soild 70’s blues rock record.

When it comes down to it, this is what every single '70s classic rock album sounds like. This is it. In 35 minutes. And so I give this artist credit for distilling it down that quickly.

Wasn’t really for me, but I was glad to hear it. I like records being on here that are stylistically a little different from the others. It’s 1001 albums you must hear not always 1001 best albums. This lands in a I’m really glad I’ve now heard it category.

I think this guy likes rock music

Not essential but totally enjoyable

Yeah, I'm not so sure this is the first Johnny Winters album to select here. All stellar musicianship and guitar chops aside, the first three tracks are so generic in their 'good ole rock-'n'-roll" shtick they border on annoyingly offensive. That said, the three cuts that follow ("Raised On Rock", Stranger", "Mind Over Matter") are so propulsive and lively they sort of redeem that lame start. Those songs are also taking a page out of more rock / hard rock acts that were far more recent by 1974, and they do that very well. "Raised By Rock", in particular, effortlessly beats the original Elvis Presley version out of the park (a somewhat drowsy original version that came out around the time of this album's release, but which is here given a shock Led Zeppelin-adjacent treatment). The LP loses steam again after that nice patch of songs, alternating between styles (country, blues, blues-rock...) to nice effects sometimes, while reverting to a meat-and-potatoes routine on others. Nothing aggravating, but even if you want to feel benevolent about that last run, there's still the hackneyed first leg of the record to take into account. 2.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 3. 7.5/10 for more general purposes. Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ----- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 43 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 52 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 100 (including this one) --- Émile: voir ma toute dernière réponse sous le disque *Triage* au-dessus.

It was okay

An LP that's a bit too full of itself for me to fully enjoy. The energy is there, but the gratuitous guitar soloing crosses into noodling territory and doesn't really advance any of the tracks. The lyricism doesn't help either, as Winter's ego clouds some of his better melodic ideas and distracts overall.

I generally annoyed by this style... though the guitar work is stylish and showy, the blues/rock groove is cliche and overused. I feel like you had 30 seconds of any of these tracks, it would be indistinguishable from 1,000 other recordings of the same style. Maybe if you were in a party band, it would be fun to "rock out" and play this music, and a maybe as a sweaty bar patron it would be fun to listen to, but i'm tired of it and this was a slog to get through.

OK. Dad rock.

Honk shooooooooo. Probably hard for guys that need to use boner pills now. Lots of shredding on Mind Over Matter.

I like his brother, Frankenstein, better.

Awful album. like dad rock and blues had a baby. I respect his skill, it's just not mine.