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Johnny Winter And
October 3, 1970
Fillmore East, New York
New York

Source: SBD > CD (Official Release: Live At The Fillmore East 10-3-70) > EAC > Flac

01. Guess I'll Go Away [04:39.38]
02. Good Morning Little School Girl [04:37.65]
03. Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo [04:47.45]
04. It's My Own Fault [22:24.50]
05. Highway 61 Revisited [07:31.30]
06. Mean Town Blues [18:07.80]
07. Rollin' And Tumblin' [04:30.70]

Lineup:
- Johnny Winter - guitar, vocals
- Rick Derringer - guitar, vocals
- Randy Jo Hobbs - bass, vocals
- Randy Zehringer - drums


Review by Thom Jurek
For decades now, we’ve thought of Live Johnny Winter And as the seminal live JW document from the early part
of his career. That record, taken from performances at the Fillmore East and from a gig in Florida, was
comprised mainly of rock & roll covers and a couple of originals. As a single LP it clocked in at just under
40 minutes. It smokes, but not as hard as this set, recorded a week or two before at the Fillmore East in 1970.
Sony let Collectors' Choice take some prime stuff from the vaults for this one. This is the Johnny Winter And
group simply tearing it up on a selection of originals and covers. The sound quality is phenomenal and the
energy on this gig not only rivals that of the previous record, it leaves it in the dust. For listeners who
are casting a wary eye at this review, one need only compare the two versions of “Good Morning Little School Girl,”
which are only a second different in length. That said, the symbiotic interplay between Winter and second lead
guitarist Rick Derringer (who went by his real name of Zehringer then) on this version sounds like a switchblade duel.
The other two cuts that are duplicated, “It’s My Own Fault” and “Mean Town Blues,” are both much longer on this gig.
The former clocks in at 22 minutes and the latter at 18. The improvisation and guitar challenges are voluminous,
wildly energetic, and creative. “Highway 61 Revisited" here contains the slide guitar workout from Winter we hoped
for on the Second Winter album and never got. The furious abandon he plays with is unchallenged on any of his live
records; it’s Elmore James by way of Mike Bloomfield with Winter's gnarly single-string fills, full of distortion
and barely controlled volume. The version of “Mean Town Blues” on this set becomes the definitive one -- in large
part because of Derringer’s complementary counterpoint lead work -- as does “It’s My Own Fault,” which transcends
its slow tempo and becomes something wholly other. The closing read of Muddy Waters’ “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” is
only 4:33, but makes one wish it were three times that long. Its fiery, steel-melting intensity features some of
the most vicious slide guitar on record to come out of the '70s. The only track that really doesn’t impress here
is “Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo,” but not because its performance is substandard. It’s simply that in comparison to
all the brilliant spontaneity and furious energy on the rest of the set, it feels too controlled. But that’s hardly
a complaint. Even though Derringer wrote it, this one blows away the JWA studio version or Derringer's own hit
single take. This set blows the stuff in Winter’s own officially released bootleg series away, and becomes his
definitive live recording, hands down.

The other live album from Johnny Winter And, 1971 is Live Johnny Winter And, has always ranked as one of the high
points of Johnny's discography, but we'd stack this 66-minute set up against that record (which was in part
composed of other Fillmore East performances) any day of the week. In fact, when you hear Johnny and Rick Derringer
trading off lead after lead, you may well be reminded of a bluesier, harder-edged Allman Brothers, with Johnny as
Duane and Derringer as Dickey Betts with the McCoys rhythm section. In other words, folks, this is some of the most
ferocious blues-rock ever laid down on stage.

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Shntool Output
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4:39.29 49283852 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6591 01 - Guess I'll Go Away.flac
4:37.49 48978092 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6787 02 - Good Morning Little School Girl.flac
4:47.34 50706812 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6597 03 - Rock And Roll Hoochie Koo.flac
22:24.38 237171020 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6033 04 - It's My Own Fault.flac
7:31.23 79610540 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6761 05 - Highway 61 Revisited.flac
18:07.60 191887964 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6180 06 - Mean Town Blues.flac
4:30.53 47752700 B --- -- ---xx flac 0.6389 07 - Rollin' And Tumblin'.flac
66:38.61 705390980 B 0.6311 (7 files)

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