Live in NYC '97
Occupation
Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar); Mark Epstein (bass, background vocals ); Tom Compton (drums)
Live in NYC '97 is a live album by the American blues and blues-rock guitarist Johnny Winter. The album was released by Point Blank Records 1998. The album reached the Billboard Top Blues Albums # 7
General
Johnny Winter chose the songs do not themselves but took the vote from his fans what their favorite song. After the song selection was the Bottom Line, a venue that in the 1970s and 1980s - years was used for small concerts, and hired in April 1997, members of his fan clubs were invited to a special concert. The album contains only one original, winter collaboration with Johnny Guitar Watson " Johnny Guitar ", with all other are cover versions, which for the version of Freddie King's Hideaway, the predicate " Definitely " can apply almost.
The critic Stephen Erlewine wrote in AMG that the live album, the hardcore fans were already waiting for years, and it keeps his promise. The album is essential for fans. In Living Blues magazine, the author writes that the Chicago winter sound married to the style of Freddie King and that the result is exciting. And Bill Mlkowski writes that the album holds the guitar hero in fine form.