I guarantee you this song is destined for the repeat button on your player! Boomerocity’s second favorite is the final cut of the album, Come Back Baby, aided by very bluesy organ work of John Medeski. The musicianship on this song is phenomenal! The harmonica work is signature Popper to the P (or “t”, if you must get technical) and the guitar solos by Winter and his number two man, Paul Nelson, are top shelf all the way. However, Boomerocity’s pick of this litter is, by far, Winter’s treatment of the Little Walter/Paul Butterfield tune, Last Night, which features Blues Traveller front man, John Popper. It’s already loaded in as one of my all-time favorite covers of the classic blues tune.Īll songs on this album are excellently executed to perfection. Sliding into the second slot is the Bobby Bland hit, Farther Up the Road, and is helped out by legendary guitarist, Jimmy Vivino. You feel like you’re in a backwoods blues joint listening to the best blues mankind has ever been blessed to hear. The disc starts off with the T-Bone Walker hit, T-Bone Shuffle, and features the phenomenal slide guitar work by Louisiana’s Sonny Landreth. This tribute to Winter’s idols by playing their iconic blues hits will b available September 28 th, and is sure to delight both blues and Winter fans the world over. He plays the blues as if he invented it and his latest CD, Roots, is an excellent example of that. If anyone has been to the fabled crossroads, Winter has. These days, Johnny Winter is at the top of that list of living blues icons – at least in my book he is. I especially love hearing it played by people who personify the blues and are considered icons of the genre and ‘specially if they’re still alive.
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