Johnny Winter
By All Music Guide
By All Music Guide
The early-2000s were quiet as far as new Winter recordings, but there were a number of significant reissues. Alligator issued the best of their years with the artist as Deluxe Edition in 2001, Columbia/Legacy covered his 1969-1971 period with their 2002 release Best of Johnny Winter, and Fuel 2000 came up with Winters earliest recordings and compiled them on 2003s Winter Essentials 1960-1967. Sony reissued Winters 1969 self-titled album with five bonus tracks in 2004, the same year the man returned with his first new album in nearly eight years, Im a Bluesman. The archival reissues continued with Fuels Introduction to Johnny Winter in 2006, which collected sides Winter recorded in his pre-Columbia years between 1960 and 1967 for the Dart, KCRO, Frolic, Todd, Hall-Way, and Pacemaker imprints.
