Johnny Winter discography
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{{Infobox artist discography
| Artist = Johnny Winter
| Image = Johnny Winter1990.jpg
| Caption = In concert 1990
| Alt = Black & white photo of Johnny Winter from the waist up playing a Gibson Firebird guitar on a stage
| Studio = 19
| Live = 9
| Option name = Live Bootleg Series
| Option = 15
| 1Option name = Compilation
| 1Option = 15
| 2Option name = Singles
| 2Option = 25
| 3Option name = Albums as producer and/or guitarist
| 3Option = 9
| 4Option name = Concert videos
| 4Option = 2
| 5Option name = Documentary films
| 5Option = 1
| 6Option name =
| 6Option =
}}
Johnny Winter (1944–2014) was an American rock and blues musician. From 1959 to 1967, he recorded several singles for mostly small record companies in his native Texas.{{sfn|Sullivan|2010|pp=49–71}} In 1968, Winter completed his first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment, and in 1969, he was signed to Columbia Records. With the label, Winter had his greatest success on the American record chart; Johnny Winter (1969), Second Winter (1969), Live Johnny Winter And (1971), and Still Alive and Well (1973) all reached the top forty on the Billboard 200 album chart. In 1974, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Live Johnny Winter And gold, his only record to receive an award from the organization.
Beginning in 1973, Winter's music was issued by Blue Sky Records, a Columbia custom label. At Blue Sky, Winter also became a producer and was responsible for releases by Chicago blues pioneer Muddy Waters. He produced Hard Again (1977), which earned Waters a Grammy Award and helped re-establish his popularity. In the years after 1984, Winter changed record companies several times, never remaining with any one for more than three albums. These included Alligator Records, MCA Records' Voyager subsidiary, Point Blank Records, Virgin Records, and Megaforce Records. In 2007, he began producing a number of albums from his personal recordings, designated the "Live Bootleg Series". Winter's last studio album, Step Back, released shortly after his death in 2014, was his most successful in the record charts since his Columbia period. Several live albums and compilations have appeared on Billboard's "Blues Albums" specialty chart.
Throughout his career, Winter's recording catalogue was plagued by bootleg albums and unauthorized re-releases of singles from his early pre-Columbia Records days.{{sfn|Sullivan|2010|pp=127–128}} These records competed with his official releases and some were doctored with later overdubs by other musicians.{{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=127}} Royalties were not Winter's primary concern: "I just don't want that bullshit out{{nbsp}}... It's just bad music."{{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=128}}
Albums
=Studio albums=
=Live albums=
=Live Bootleg Series albums=
The "Live Bootleg Series" are authorized, official releases produced by Winter for the Friday Music label. The CDs and LPs include the notice: "All master recordings are owned and controlled by Johnny Winter and are compiled from the authorized Johnny Winter archives". The recordings were not state-of-the-art for the time and many similar recordings had previously circulated as actual bootleg albums. The peak chart positions refer to Billboard{{'}}s "Blues Albums" chart (none appeared on the broader Billboard 200 album chart).
=Compilation albums=
After Winter signed to Columbia Records in 1969, his former associates began licensing albums consisting of Winter's early singles and demos for various labels.{{cite web| url = https://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-winter-mn0000819983/biography| title = Johnny Winter – Biography| last = Ruhlmann| first = William| website = AllMusic| access-date = December 3, 2020| archive-date = December 30, 2019| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191230065845/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-winter-mn0000819983/biography| url-status = live}} These 40 or so songs continue to be re-packaged and re-released by numerous small record companies. In several interviews, Winter asserts that these were unauthorized and that some have been overdubbed with other musicians.{{sfn|Sullivan|2010|pp=127–128}} For completeness, two of the more noteworthy compilations of pre-1968 recordings are included. The rest of those listed below contain songs that were recorded from 1968 on.
Singles
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ {{sronly|List of singles with year, title, details, chart peak, and reference(s)}} ! scope="col" width=5% | Year ! scope="col" width=40% | Title ! scope="col" width=40% | Details ! scope="col" width=10% | Chart ! scope="col" width=5% | {{Abbr|Ref(s)|References}} |
| 1959
! scope="row" | "School Day Blues" / "You Know I Love You" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=34}} |
| rowspan=2 | 1960
! scope="row" | "Creepy" / "Oh My Darling" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=49}} |
| scope="row" | "Hey, Hey, Hey" / "One Night of Love"
|
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=49}} |
|---|
| 1961
! scope="row" | "Shed So Many Tears" / "That's What Love Does" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=49}} |
| 1962
! scope="row" | "Voodoo Twist" / "Ease My Pain" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=50}} |
| rowspan=3 | 1963
! scope="row" | "Crying in My Heart" / "Broke and Lonely" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=52}} |
| scope="row" | "Road Runner" / "The Guy You Left Behind"
|
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=52}} |
| scope="row" | "Gangster of Love" / "Eternally"
|
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=59}} |
| rowspan=2 | 1964
! scope="row" | "Eternally" / "You'll Be the Death of Me" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=60}} |
| scope="row" | "Gone For Bad" / "I Won´t Believe It"
|
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=69}} |
| 1966
! scope="row" | "Please Come Home for Christmas" / "Out of Sight" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=69}} |
| rowspan=2 | 1967
! scope="row" | "Birds Can't Row Boats" / "Leavin' Blues" |
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|pp=69–70}} |
| scope="row" | "Tramp" / "Parchman Farm"
|
| — | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=71}} |
| 1968
! scope="row" | "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Mean Town Blues" |
| — | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1968| title = "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Mean Town Blues"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Sonobeat Records| id = R-s107 A| at = 45 label}} |
| rowspan=3 | 1969
! scope="row" | "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Forty Four" |
| —{{efn|On Billboard{{'}}s Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (Imperial) reached No. 129.{{cite magazine| date = May 10, 1969| title = Bubbling Under the Hot 100| magazine = Billboard| volume = 81| issue = 19| issn = 0006-2510| page = 96}}}} | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1969| title = "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Forty-Four"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Imperial Records| id = 66376| at = 45 label}} |
| scope="row" | "I'm Yours and I'm Hers" / "I'll Drown in My Tears"
|
| — | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1969| title = "I'm Yours and I'm Hers" / "I'll Drown in My Tears"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Columbia Records| id = 4-44900| at = 45 label}} |
| scope="row" | "Johnny B. Goode" / " I'm Not Sure"
|
| 92 | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1969| title = "Johnny B. Goode" / "I'm Not Sure"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Columbia Records| id = 4-45058| at = 45 label}} |
| 1970
! scope="row" | "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" / "21st Century Man" |
| —{{efn|name="RPM"}} | {{sfn|Sullivan|2010|p=147}} |
| 1971
! scope="row" | "Jumpin' Jack Flash" / "Good Morning Little School Girl" |
| 89 | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1971| title = "Jumpin' Jack Flash" / "Good Morning Little School Girl"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter And| publisher = Columbia Records| id = 4-45368| at = 45 label}} |
| rowspan=2 | 1973
! scope="row" | "Silver Train" / "Rock and Roll" |
| —{{efn|name="Cash"|On the Cash Box Looking Ahead chart, "Silver Train" reached No. 112, "Stone County" No. 106, and "Boney Moroney" No. 103.{{harvnb|Whitburn|2015|p=554}}.}} | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1973| title = "Silver Train" / "Rock and Roll"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Columbia Records| id = 4-45860| at = 45 label}} |
| scope="row" | "Can't You Feel It" / "Rock & Roll"
|
| — | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1974| title = "Can't You Feel It" / "Rock & Roll"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Columbia Records| id = 4-45899| at = 45 label}} |
| rowspan=4 | 1974
! scope="row" | "Stone County" / "Bad Luck Situation" |
| —{{efn|name="Cash"}} | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1974| title = "Stone County" / "Bad Luck Situation"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Columbia Records| id = 4-46006| at = 45 label}} |
| scope="row" | "Boney Moroney" / "Hurtin' So Bad"
|
| —{{efn|name="RPM"}}{{efn|name="Cash"}} | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1974| title = "Boney Moroney" / "Hurtin' So Bad"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Columbia Records| id = 4-46036| at = 45 label}} |
| scope="row" | "Raised on Rock" / "Pick Up on My Mojo"
|
| — | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1974| title = "Raised on Rock" / "Pick Up on My Mojo"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Blue Sky Records| id = ZS8 2754| at = 45 label}} |
| scope="row" | "Golden Olden Days of Rock & Roll" / "Stranger"
|
| — | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1974| title = "Golden Olden Days of Rock & Roll" / "Stranger"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter| publisher = Blue Sky Records| id = ZS8 2756| at = 45 label}} |
| 1976
! scope="row" | "Let the Good Times Roll" / "Soul Man" |
| — | {{cite AV media notes| year = 1976| title = "Let the Good Times Roll" / "Soul Man"| type = Single notes| others = Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter| publisher = Blue Sky Records| id = ZS8 2764| at = 45 label}} |
| colspan="5" style="font-size: 80%"| "—" denotes a release that did not chart |
Albums as producer and/or guitarist
Concert videos
| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|+ {{sronly|List of concert videos with year, title, details, chart peak, and reference(s)}} ! scope="col" width=5% | Year ! scope="col" width=40% | Title ! scope="col" width=40% | Details ! scope="col" width=10% | Chart ! scope="col" width=5% | {{Abbr|Ref(s)|References}} |
| 2012
! scope="row" | Live from Japan |
| — |
| 2016
! scope="row" | Live in Sweden 1987 |
| — |
| colspan="5" style="font-size: 80%"| "—" denotes a release that did not chart |
Documentary film
Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty is a documentary film about the life and music career of Johnny Winter. It was directed by Greg Olliver and is 104 minutes long. The movie premiered on March 12, 2014, at the South by Southwest Film Festival.{{cite web |first=John |last=DeFore |date=March 24, 2014 |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/johnny-winter-down-dirty-sxsw-690701 |title=Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty: SXSW Review |website=HollywoodReporter.com |access-date=January 24, 2017 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202040229/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/johnny-winter-down-dirty-sxsw-690701 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |first=Jason |last=Shadrick |date=May 2, 2014 |url=http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20762-johnny-winter-down-and-dirty-movie-review |title=Johnny Winter: Down and Dirty Movie Review |website=Premier Guitar |access-date=January 24, 2017 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202040925/http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/20762-johnny-winter-down-and-dirty-movie-review |url-status=live }} It was released on DVD on March 4, 2016.{{cite web |first=JD |last=Nash |date=March 17, 2016 |url=https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2016/03/johnny-winter-down-dirty-documentary-needs-to-be-seen-to-be-believed/ |title=Johnny Winter Down & Dirty Documentary Needs to Be Seen to Be Believed |website=American Blues Scene |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321005917/https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2016/03/johnny-winter-down-dirty-documentary-needs-to-be-seen-to-be-believed/ |archive-date=March 21, 2016 |access-date=April 6, 2018}}
Footnotes
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References
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Bibliography
- {{cite encyclopedia
| last = Ruhlmann
| first = William
| title = All Music Guide to the Blues: The Experts' Guide to the Best Blues Recordings
| year = 1996
| section = Johnny Winter
| editor-last = Erlewine
| editor-first = Michael
| editor-link = Michael Erlewine
| editor-last2 = Bogdanov
| editor-first2 = Vladimir
| editor-link2 = Vladimir Bogdanov (editor)
| editor-last3 = Woodstra
| editor-first3 = Chris
| editor-last4 = Koda
| editor-first4 = Cub
| editor-link4 = Cub Koda
| encyclopedia = All Music Guide to the Blues
| publisher = Miller Freeman Books
| isbn = 978-0-87930-424-9
| section-url-access = registration
| section-url = https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetob00erle}}
- {{cite book
| last = Kent
| first = David
| authorlink = David Kent (historian)
| title = Australian Chart Book 1970–1992
| edition = illustrated
| publisher = Australian Chart Book
| year = 1993
| isbn = 978-0-646-11917-5}}
- {{cite book
| last = Sullivan
| first = Mary Lou
| title = Raisin' Cain: The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter
| publisher = Backbeat Books
| year = 2010
| isbn = 978-0-87930-973-2}}
- {{cite book
| last = Whitburn
| first = Joel
| authorlink=Joel Whitburn
| title = The Comparison Book Billboard/Cash Box/Record World 1954–1982
| publisher = Sheridan Books
| year = 2015
| isbn = 978-0-89820-213-7}}
External links
- {{Discogs artist|Johnny Winter|Johnny Winter}}
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