"Legendary rocker and blues statesman Johnny Winter enthralled audiences the world over. With his unique brand of blues/rock guitar and vocal prowess, Winter’s style was truly unmatched in purity and in star power longevity. While he toured non-stop, it’s no secret that his live performances were legendary. Fortunately for his huge fan base, Johnny had captured a lot of his concerts on tape over the many decades, which proudly leads us to the latest installment of the chart topping Live Bootleg Series.
For Johnny Winter’s Live Bootleg Series Volume 8, the artist surely becomes his instrument in some incredibly guitar shredding live performances. The blues wielding axeman steps out with super extended workouts on concert classics like his masterful version of the Freddie King classic Tore Down, fan favorite Give It Back and a super long jam on the classic Have You Ever Loved A Woman.
Always paying homage to his fellow bluesmen, Johnny also dug far back into his archives for two super rare performances of his favorite Elmore James’ classics Stranger Blues and Done Somebody Wrong. Always an astute master of the blues rock genre, Johnny closes out the album with an incredibly rockin’ interpretation of Chuck Berry’s Roll Over Beethoven.
Friday Music is very honored to be the home of Johnny Winter’s Live Bootleg Series Volume 8. As with our previous releases, these are totally authorized and owned/controlled by Johnny Winter himself. In addition to the hard rockin’ blues on this wonderful collection, this limited edition compact disc release also includes the fine album cover photo from Paul Natkin, as well as Johnny’s good friend, producer and guitarist Paul Nelson’s penned liner notes Live Bootleg Series Volume 8 by Johnny Winter… Six tracks of pure Texan blues power, courtesy of the legendary Johnny Winter and Friday Music. Rock and Roll!!!!
1. Introduction
2. Give It Back
3. Tore Down
4. Stranger Blues
5. Done Somebody Wrong
6. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
7. Roll Over Beethoven
