Johnny Winter discography
Johnny Winter (1944–2014) was an American rock and blues musician. With his brother Edgar, Winter recorded his first 45 rpm record single in 1959. Over the next nine years, he recorded a number of singles, which were released by mostly small record companies in his native Texas. In 1968, Winter recorded his first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment, and in 1969, he was signed to Columbia Records. With Columbia, Winter had his greatest success on the main American record charts; Johnny Winter (1969), Second Winter (1969), Live Johnny Winter And (1971), and Still Alive and Well (1973) all reached the top forty on the Billboard 200 album chart.
| Johnny Winter discography | |
|---|---|
 In concert 1990 | |
| Studio albums | 19 |
| Live albums | 9 |
| Compilation albums | 15 |
| Singles | 25 |
| Live Bootleg Series | 14 |
Beginning in 1973, Winter's music was issued by Blue Sky Records, a Columbia custom label. At Blue Sky, Winter also became a producer and was responsible for releases by Chicago blues pioneer Muddy Waters. He produced Hard Again (1977), which earned Waters a Grammy Award and helped re-establish his popularity. In the years after 1984, Winter changed record companies several times, never remaining at any one for more than two or three albums. These included Alligator Records, MCA Records' Voyager subsidiary, Point Blank Records, Virgin Records, and Megaforce Records. In 2007, he began producing a number of albums from his personal recordings, designated the "Live Bootleg Series". Winter's last studio album, Step Back (2014), is his most successful in the record charts since his Columbia period. Live albums and compilations continue to be released, with several appearing on Billboard's "Blues Albums" specialty chart.
Throughout his career, Winter was dogged by bootleg recordings and unauthorized re-releases of singles from his early pre-Columbia Records days. These records competed with his official releases. According to one biographer, only about fifteen percent of Winter's commercially available recordings are legitimate, leaving 85 percent that he had no control over.[1] Some of the releases were doctored with later overdubs by other musicians. Royalties were not Winter's primary concern, "I just don't want that bullshit out ... It's just bad music".[2] Winter's discography and royalty situation was also complicated by the fact that he did not have a recording contract from 1980 to 1983.[3]
Albums
Studio albums
| Year | Title | Details | Chart peak Billboard 200 [4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | The Progressive Blues Experiment[5] | 40 | |
| 1969 | Johnny Winter[6] |
|
24 |
| 1969 | Second Winter[7] |
|
55 |
| 1970 | Johnny Winter And[8] |
|
154 |
| 1973 | Still Alive and Well[9] |
|
22 |
| 1974 | Saints & Sinners[10] |
|
42 |
| 1974 | John Dawson Winter III[11] |
|
78 |
| 1977 | Nothin' but the Blues[12] |
|
146 |
| 1978 | White, Hot and Blue[13] |
|
141 |
| 1980 | Raisin' Cain[14] |
|
— |
| 1984 | Guitar Slinger[15] | 183 | |
| 1985 | Serious Business[16] |
|
156 |
| 1986 | Third Degree[17] |
|
— |
| 1988 | The Winter of '88[18] |
|
— |
| 1991 | Let Me In[19] |
|
— |
| 1992 | Hey, Where's Your Brother?[20] |
|
— |
| 2004 | I'm a Bluesman[21] |
|
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| 2011 | Roots[23] |
|
163 |
| 2014 | Step Back[24] |
|
17 |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart | |||
Live albums
| Year | Title | Details | Chart peak Billboard 200 [4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Live Johnny Winter And[25] |
|
40 |
| 1976 | Captured Live![26] |
|
93 |
| 1976 | Together[27] |
|
— |
| 1998 | Live in NYC '97[28] |
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| 2009 | The Woodstock Experience[29] |
|
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| 2010 | Live at the Fillmore East 10/3/70[30] |
|
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| 2011 | Rockpalast: Blues Rock Legends Vol. 3 |
|
— |
| 2015 | Live from Japan[31] |
|
— |
| 2018 | The King of Slide[32] |
|
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| "—" denotes a release that did not chart | |||
Live Bootleg Series albums
The "Live Bootleg Series" are authorized, official releases produced by Winter for the Friday Music label. The CDs and LPs include the notice: "All master recordings are owned and controlled by Johnny Winter and are compiled from the authorized Johnny Winter archives". The recordings were not state-of-the-art for the time and many similar recordings had previously circulated as actual bootleg albums. The peak chart positions refer to Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart.
| Year | Title | Details Catalogue no. & number of tracks |
Chart peak Blues Albums [22] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 1[33] | FRM 1064 – 12 tracks | 15 |
| 2008 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 2[34] | FRM 1083 – 6 tracks | 7 |
| 2008 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 3[35] |
FRM 1085 – 7 tracks |
— |
| 2009 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 4[36] |
FRM 1100 – 10 tracks |
9 |
| 2009 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 5[37] |
FRM 1143 – 8 tracks |
8 |
| 2010 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 6[38] |
FRM 1156 – 7 tracks |
5 |
| 2011 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 7[39] |
FRM 1160 – 7 tracks |
15 |
| 2012 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 8[40] |
FRM 1162 – 7 tracks |
— |
| 2013 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 9[41] |
FRM 1163 – 7 tracks |
— |
| 2013 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 10[42] |
FRM 1164 – 7 tracks |
— |
| 2014 | Live Bootleg Special Edition[43] |
FRM 41914 (LP only) – 6 tracks |
9 |
| 2014 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 11[44] |
FRM 1165 – 7 tracks |
15 |
| 2016 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 12[45] |
FRM 1167 – 7 tracks |
10 |
| 2016 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 13 |
FRM 1169 – 7 tracks |
— |
| 2018 | Live Bootleg Series Vol. 14: It's Johnny's Birthday |
FRM 22344 – 9 tracks |
— |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart | |||
Compilation albums
After signing to Columbia Records in 1969, Winter's former associates began licensing albums consisting of his previous singles and demos for various labels.[46] These 40 or so songs continue to be re-packaged and re-released by numerous small record companies.[46] In several interviews, Winter asserts that these were unauthorized and that some have been overdubbed with other musicians.[47] For completeness, two of the more noteworthy compilations of pre-1968 are included. The rest of those listed below contain songs that were recorded from 1968 on.
| Year | Title | Details | Chart peak Billboard 200 [4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | The Johnny Winter Story[48] | 111 | |
| 1992 | Scorchin' Blues[49] | — | |
| 1994 | A Rock n' Roll Collection[50] |
|
— |
| 1996 | The Return of Johnny Guitar (The Best of Johnny Winter 1984–86)[51] |
|
— |
| 1997 | White Hot Blues[52] |
|
— |
| 2001 | Deluxe Edition[53] |
|
— |
| 2002 | The Best of Johnny Winter[54] |
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| 2003 | Winter Essentials 1960–1967[55] |
|
— |
| 2009 | The Johnny Winter Anthology[56] |
|
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| 2011 | Playlist: The Very Best of Johnny Winter Live [57] |
|
— |
| 2014 | The Essential Johnny Winter[58] |
|
— |
| 2014 | True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story[59] |
|
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| 2015 | Remembrance Vol. 1[60] |
|
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| 2015 | It's My Life, Baby[61] |
|
— |
| 2017 | Remembrance Volume 2[62] |
|
— |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart | |||
Singles
| Year | Title A-side / B-side |
Details | Chart peak Hot 100 [63] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | "School Day Blues" / "You Know I Love You"[64] |
|
— |
| 1960 | "Creepy" / "Oh My Darling"[65] |
|
— |
| 1960 | "Hey, Hey, Hey" / "One Night of Love"[65] |
|
— |
| 1961 | "Shed So Many Tears" / "That's What Love Does"[65] |
|
— |
| 1962 | "Voodoo Twist" / "Ease My Pain"[66] |
|
— |
| 1963 | "Teardrops in My Heart" / "Crazie Babie" |
|
— |
| 1963 | "Road Runner" / "The Guy You Left Behind"[67] |
|
— |
| 1963 | "Gangster of Love" / "Eternally"[68] |
|
— |
| 1964 | "Eternally" / "You'll Be the Death of Me"[69] |
|
— |
| 1964 | "Gone For Bad" / "I Won´t Believe It"[70] |
|
— |
| 1966 | "Please Come Home for Christmas" / "Out of Sight"[70] |
|
— |
| 1967 | "Birds Can't Row Boats" / "Leavin' Blues"[71] |
|
— |
| 1967 | "Tramp" / "Parchman Farm"[72] |
|
— |
| 1968 | "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Mean Town Blues" |
|
— |
| 1968 | "Rollin' and Tumblin'" / "Forty Four" |
|
129 |
| 1969 | "I'm Yours and I'm Hers" / "I'll Drown in My Tears" |
|
— |
| 1969 | "Johnny B. Goode" / " I'm Not Sure" |
|
92 |
| 1970 | "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" / "21st Century Man"[73] |
|
— |
| 1971 | "Jumpin' Jack Flash" / "Good Morning Little School Girl" |
|
89 |
| 1973 | "Silver Train" / "Rock and Roll" |
|
112* |
| 1974 | "Stone County" / "Bad Luck Situation" |
|
106* |
| 1974 | "Boney Moroney" / "Hurtin' So Bad" |
|
103* |
| 1974 | "Raised on Rock" / "Pick Up on My Mojo" |
|
108 |
| 1974 | "Golden Olden Days of Rock & Roll" / "Stranger" |
|
— |
| 1976 | "Let the Good Times Roll" / "Soul Man" |
|
— |
| 1992 | "Johnny Guitar"[74] |
|
112* |
"—" denotes a release that did not chart; * indicates the Cash Box Singles Chart.[75] | |||
Albums as producer and/or guitarist
| Year | Title | Details | Chart peak Billboard 200 [4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Temple of Birth |
|
— |
| 1977 | Hard Again[76] |
|
143 |
| 1978 | I'm Ready[78] |
|
157 |
| 1979 | Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live[80] |
|
— |
| Blast |
|
— | |
| 1981 | King Bee[82] |
|
192 |
| 1984 | Whoopin'[83] |
|
— |
| 2007 | Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down[84] |
|
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| "—" denotes a release that did not chart | |||
Concert videos
| Year | Title | Details | Chart peak Billboard 200 [4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Live from Japan |
|
— |
| 2016 | Live in Sweden 1987[86] |
|
— |
| "—" denotes a release that did not chart | |||
Documentary film
Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty is a documentary film about the life and music career of Johnny Winter. It was directed by Greg Olliver and is 104 minutes long. The movie premiered on March 12, 2014 at the South by Southwest Film Festival.[87][88] It was released on DVD on March 4, 2016.[89]
Footnotes
- I'm a Bluesman reached #4 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- Live in NYC '97 reached #7 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- The Woodstock Experience reached #1 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- Live at the Fillmore East 10/3/1970 reached #1 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- The King of Slide reached #6 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- The Best of Johnny Winter reached #11 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- The Johnny Winter Anthology reached #11 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- True to the Blues reached #2 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- Remembrance Vol. 1 reached #8 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[22]
- Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down reached #3 on Billboard's "Blues Albums" chart[85]
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