Also available in a 3-pack with JOHNNY WINTER and CAPTURED LIVE. Personnel: Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Edgar Winter (alto saxophone, piano, harpsichord, organ); Tommy Shannon, Dennis Collins (bass); John Turner (drums, percussion). Includes liner notes by Johnny Winter. Personnel: Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, mandolin); Edgar Winter (vocals, saxophone, alto saxophone, piano, harpsichord, organ, keyboards); "Uncle" John Turner (drums, percussion). Audio Mixers: Thom Cadley; Bob Auger. Liner Note Author: Andy Aledort. Recording information: Nashville, TN (07/19/1969-08/12/1969). Authors: Johnny Winter; Tommy Shannon. Photographers: Don Hunstein; Fred Lombardi; Peter Sanders; Richard Avedon; Amalie R. Rothschild. Johnny Winter's second album for Columbia--duh--1970's SECOND WINTER is also notorious for a gimmicky sales device. When the recording sessions were over, Winter had enough material for an album and a half; rather than add a side of filler, Columbia simply promoted the album as the world's first three-sided album. (In a snarky review, Rolling Stone sarcastically gave the blank fourth side an in-depth discussion.) The last of Winter's albums to feature his original backing band--drummer Uncle John Turner, bassist Tommy Shannon, and brother Edgar on keyboards and saxes--SECOND WINTER is a refinement of the blues-rock aesthetic of 1969's JOHNNY WINTER. Louder, harder, faster, and more reckless, this is to JOHNNY WINTER as Elvis Costello's THIS YEAR'S MODEL is to MY AIM IS TRUE: an album so phenomenal that it makes the debut, excellent though it is, sound weak in comparison. Highlights include the punky "I Hate Everybody" and a brilliant Hendrix-style deconstruction of Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited."
