JOHNNY WINTER is one of my favourite top 10 blues/rock musician's of all time. Personally I liked his more 'rock' orientated material that he played between 1970-1975 when he had either Rick Derringer or Floyd Radford on 2nd guitar but later on in the 1980s, 1990s & 2000s he went a bit to 'blues' orientated for my taste.
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I totally agree with you. I have every Johnny Winter album I could get my hands on but for the last 2 or 3 Live Bootleg sets. I like him more for his blues material, but when he was rocking he was among the greatest! Awesome rocking album Captured LIve and And Live. The studio Johnny Winter And album was the only one I can think of that did not have a single blues lick on it--great album too.
How about the early band before Derringer? Tommy Shannon on bass, later playing bass for SRV (BTW, I believe Johnny was way better than SRV but that is personal opinion I guess).
Johnny and Edgar Together is a cool album, and then Edgar had some really killer albums too! Love Edgars R&B with the White Trash. White Trash Live Roadwork had a few rockers with Rick Derringer in the lead, and an appearance by Johnny himself.
Saw Johnny live three times (2 when he was doing rock, 1 when he was doing blues). Saw Edgar on the Frankenstein tour.