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

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

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

Nice old school blues and rock 'n 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.

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

Texas mother fuckers

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

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.

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.

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