"GIANTS OF THE BLUES"

2018

COLUMBIA/LEGACY'S 2002 RELEASE, THE BEST OF JOHNNY WINTER, CONCENTRATES SOLELY ON THE GUITARIST'S EARLY RECORDINGS FOR COLUMBIA, WHICH ARE OFTEN (AND DESERVEDLY) CONSIDERED HIS BEST WORK. NEARLY ALL OF THE 16 SELECTIONS HERE WERE RECORDED BETWEEN 1969 AND 1971 --- THERE'S A STRAY CUT FROM 1973, PLUS TWO CUTS FROM 1979, DATING FROM HIS TIME ON BLUE SKY --- AND ALL OF THEM SHOWCASE WINTER AT HIS BEST, NOT JUST AS A FIERY BLUES-ROCK GUITARIST, BUT AS A BAND-LEADER. WHILE THERE ARE A FEW ITEMS THAT MAY BE RELATIVELY RARE HERE, THERE IS NO UNRELEASED MATERIAL, JUST SELECTIONS FROM WINTER AT HIS PRIME, AND THIS COLLECTION DOES
A VERY GOOD JOB OF SUMMARIZING THAT PEAK
SUCCINCTLY AND ENJOYABLY.

 

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WILD "T" & THE SPIRIT

FEATURING
MURAD GUNDUZ - GUENTHER KAPELLE
PAT RUSH - TONEY SPRINGER

UNDENIABLY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING AND TECHNICALLY EXTRAORDINARY GUITAR-SLINGERS IN CANADA, THE INIMITABLE TONEY "WILD T" SPRINGER. HE HAS ALSO BEEN AN ACTOR IN THE ROLE OF JIMI HENDRIX IN THE HOLLYWOOD MOVIE, DAY DREAM BELIEVER, IN ADDITION TO HIS PERFORMANCES AND RECORDINGS WITH STARS LIKE DAVID BOWIE, CAROL POPE & ROUGH TRADE AND MORE. SPRINGER CONTINUES TO COMPOSE, RECORD, AND TOURS EXTENSIVELY
THROUGHOUT CANADA AND EUROPE.

SPECIAL GUEST

HAVING MET AND JAMMED WITH JOHNNY WINTER IN THE SEVENTIES,
PAT RUSH WAS HIRED FOR JOHNNY'S BAND DURING 1977 AND 1978, AND
WENT ON TOUR WITH HIM IN THE U.S.A. IN 1977. PAT WAS ON JOHNNY'S WHITE HOT & BLUE ALBUM FROM 1978, AND PLAYED SLIDE ON "WALKIN' BY MYSELF", FROM THAT SAME ALBUM. BESIDES JOHNNY, PAT IS THE ONLY OTHER GUITARIST TO EVER PLAY SLIDE ON A WINTER ALBUM. PAT RUSH PERFORMED PERIODICALLY WITH JOHNNY WINTER UP UNTIL
HIS PASSING ON JULY 16, 2014.