![]() Monday 23 February 1970 The Capital Timesħ:00 - Radio Free Madison ~ Progressive rock and jazz with Johnny Winter and Peter, Paul and Mary WIBA-PM. I strongly advise that you don’t run out and buy this collector’s item unless you vomit at the sound of a Kooper Session, chuckle when you hear that this or that new young discovery has truly, “lived the blues” or feel more than a little sad when you realize that Muddy Waters can’t possibly live as long as you and I. It has not been shaped by a world of Fillmpre’s East and West, Suburban swimming pool bliss or Plastic Onos. Chicago Blues, when it comes from Chicago is, if nothing else, real. guitar is heard on five cuts, aS personnel is listed in detail, on the album jacket. There’s lots of Little Walter’s wonderfuK harmonica on this album as well as some fine work by the lesser known Big Walter Horton. All, however, are better than the pre-puberty mutterings of Johnny Winter, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and friends, (that goes without question) Included are Jimmy’s most well-known tune “That’s Alright” and the gem : “Walking By Myself” (recently given an interesting treatment by Paul Butterfield, one of the few REAL white bluesmen). This album (long-awaited, little of Jimmy’s work is available except for scattered cuts on Chess’s Blues Volumes series and early Waters sides) contains 14 tunes recorded between 19. He played guitar with Muddy’s band for eight years and retired to Chicago’s West side in 1959. ![]() Lane who comes to us as Jimmy Roger The liner notes tell us that Jimmy was in Chicago by 1945, soon started working with Little Walter, Sunnyland Slim and Baby Leroy Foster and joined Muddy in 1949. Leary, Francis Clay, Sam Lawhorne, George Smith and the great James A. His many bands listed personnel including Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Fred Below, Jimmy Gotten, Little Walter, S. It is too easily forgotten that much of the music that has been miscarried upon us since them (most notably in the 60’s would not even have been given the opportunity of conception without the organ of Chicago, and that modern blues possibly wouldn’t have grown without the pioneering of Muddy Waters. All of them spent time living in Chicago’s nineteen forties and fifties Blues incubator, the birthplace of city blues. Not a child of the post-war baby-boom among them. In its vaults are recordings by Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, etc., etc. (Dig the melody behind the old “you get a lot to like with a Marlboro” ad!) Chess Records is a blues company. But, that leaves to chance the lives of far too many black musicians who still play for pennies in places like Chicago’s South and West sides, who don’t even get credit for giving America a music that infiltrates even the Pepsi Generation’s whitest of white institutions, the television commercial. Years, ago he dug the “blues” of Mildred Bailey and even Sophie Tucker, that’s ok, to each his own. White “hip” has never quite come out of the white (into the dark). Party scene anywhere hair grows long: “Yeah, I dig the blues, that Eddie Clampton really gets it on, he’s the heaviest, dynamite mother there is.” Well, how about that? That’s the blues? That’s 1969 white “hip” talkin’ to ya. Saturday 7 February Dog Races at Fitchburg: Johnny Winter Article about picks of pro players : Mickey Backer, Eric Clapton and Johnny Winter. in the dining hall, and a concert in the field house at 8:30 p.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m., a mow sculpture contest judgng and coffee house (lower evel of the college union) will be held in the afternoon followed by banquet: for couples at 6:30 p.m. 7, In addition to the first day of the sled dog races, which will be run from 10:00 a.m. Thursday 29 January 1970 Fitchburg Sentinel Guitar Player Magazine were used to have albums publicity from Columbia. Johnny was used to sell D’Addario strings : Guitar Slinger type of photo first and now a painted Johnny playing his National. ![]() Johnny had in the early 80’s a nice full page photo used as an advertisement for then starting string company Dean Markley. ![]()
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