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1968 studio album by Johnny Winter
The Progressive Blues Experiment is the debut album by American
blues rock musician
Johnny Winter . He recorded it in August 1968 at the
Vulcan Gas Company , an Austin music club, with his original trio of
Tommy Shannon on bass guitar and John "Red" Turner on drums.
[2] The album features a mix of Winter originals and older
blues songs, including the
standards "
Rollin' and Tumblin' ", "
Help Me ", and "
Forty-Four ".
[2]
Local Austin, Texas-based
Sonobeat Records issued the album with a plain white cover in late 1968. After Winter signed to
Columbia Records , the rights were sold to
Imperial Records , who reissued it in March 1969.
[3] The Imperial edition, with a new cover, reached number 40 on the
Billboard 200 album chart.
[4] In 2005, Capitol issued a 24-bit remastered edition of the album on compact disc.
[2]
Track listing
Songwriters and track running times are taken from the original Sonobeat LP.
[6] Other releases may have different listings.
Personnel
^ On the 1969 Imperial reissue, the credit for "Broke Down Engine" is shown as "Arranged & Adapted by Johnny Winter".
[7]
^ On the 1969 Imperial reissue, the credit for "Forty-Four" is shown as "C. Burnett"
[7] (also known as
Howlin' Wolf ).
References
^
a
b Burks, John (April 19, 1969).
"Records" .
Rolling Stone . Archived from
the original on October 16, 2007.
^
a
b
c
d
Koda, Cub .
"Johnny Winter: The Progressive Blues Experiment – Review" .
AllMusic . Retrieved June 23, 2012 .
^ .
Ruhlmann, William.
"Johnny Winter – Biography" .
AllMusic . Retrieved April 24, 2018 .
^
"Johnny Winter: Chart History – Billboard 200" .
Billboard.com . Retrieved December 14, 2019 .
^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006).
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings .
Penguin . p. 722.
ISBN
978-0-140-51384-4 .
^ The Progressive Blues Experiment (Album notes).
Johnny Winter .
Sonobeat Records . 1968. Record labels. R-s1002.{{
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a
b The Progressive Blues Experiment (Album notes).
Johnny Winter .
Imperial Records . 1969. Back cover. LP-12431.{{
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