John Dawson Winter III

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

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.

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

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.