Johnny Winter Acoustic Blues: Goin' Down Slow

[wrbegin]

I saw Johnny at a place called Beginnings in Schaumburg, IL. late 70's anyone remember that place?

[MrNoser11]

he touches my soul everytime...

[satjathamma]

They say Johnny winter got black blood

[wrbegin]

I listen to this at least 4-5 times a week.

[fascismanarchy]

YES I FINALLY FOUND THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[adaptiveagile]

Holy awesome. One of a kind.

[nickbarcenas]

sounds like a robert johnson tune if not it's based on robert johnsons guitar work but it still sounds brilliant..

[Big77Jim]

I think Johnnys singing is better on a song like this.His guitar work is the best in spit of his uneven singing.

[Vcubed1]

@Big77Jim I think he's one of the very best blues singers. But I agree his country blues numbers show it off better.

[montreemtx]

WHAT KEY IS THIS? A ?

I cant determine.

I love Johnny's performance.

Thanks.

[baboxe]

Standart tuning, A

[Vcubed1]

It's not acoustic. It's an electric on the clean channel.

[psychoprosthetic]

@Vcubed1 Yep, with the gain down low - either that or a solid body with a piezo pickup in it.

Nothing like an acoustic.

[Skwerrlly]

Nice...

[millionyearstar]

he cut his teeth on robert johnson . . .along with soooo many other of the great BLUESMEN , , , ,

[BluesBurner]

@millionyearstar haha thats true. you cant call yourself a bluesman unless you learned from RJ

[BluesBurner]

His voice sounds a lot like Robert Johnson i think. At times at least. I love it though.

[jachal2010]

BB King, y johnny Winter, lo mejor par mis oidos y mi alma Gracias CAPOS!!!

[miguestone25]

UN ALVINO CON ALMA NEGRA NO ..... ¡¡¡

[CaprForevr]

No dislikes who could not like Johnny Winter "Mr. Blues" if you close your eyes you can hear Muddy Waters, Albert King, B.B. King, Sonny Boy Williamson and all the true blues masters

[CaprForevr]

no dislikes who could not like Johnny Winter "Mr Blues"

[1PhilHarmonic]

I would go down to the crossroads to play and sing Johnny.

[fngrpkn06]

A real stepping stone from the past to the future, it's up to the next generation to continue.

[Subhuman80]

That's an electric guitar not acoustic.

[killingmachine91]

Johnny is the whitest bluesman ever.

[Bluessontlavie]

can only imagine what it would have been like to party with JW

[ingvariuscom]

Johnny Winter has to be one of the absolutely best interpreters of blues, the incarnation itself. I have not heard anyone like him, with due respect to all the great blues artists out there.

[JimBozeman1956]

Nice, but I still like Duane Allman's version better.

[winterguitarking]

Hey !

In all Do Respect for the late Duane Allman, he ani't know Johnny Winter ... Johnny Winter is a concert purist,,, the greatest blues rock guitarist who ever played period ... Johnny hasn't gotten the recognition he truly deserves (commerically) thought i tell it like it truly is, Peace ... Johnny Rock On Brother ...

[JustAintthatWay]

@winterguitarking well my good man you is well entitled to your own opinion

and anybody who digs jdw is a buddy of mine but ...

much as i dig jdw duane allman was is and always will be the man

johnny is a frontman playing w/ sidemen duane was a bandleader subtle distinction there

still i know we can love more than one b/c i love both these dudes' stuff

truly artists within the blues genre whose authenticity has earned them both

everlasting admiration

[vexamatic]

Great slide show.  Thanks for posting. My jaw is still on the ground... but I'm happy... no I'm sad... not I'm happy!

[vexamatic]

If you put a 'scratch track' over this and made it sound like an old 88 record, JW would fit right in alongside all the founding fathers of the blues. The whitest black man that ever lived. Love you JW.

[chuckhughes2]

This is played on an acoustic guitar. You can tell especially by the quick decay of the bass strings.

[awesomesix]

Man Soulfull !!!!!

[Beabeaemerhead]

Johnny Winter could sound good on a cigar box with rubber bands stretched over it. He's that great.

[300ultramag1]

hey guys maybe its an acoustic

[lazer70]

this is blues...

[kwithawhat]

I love this tune, this version is amazing!

ANYONE KNOW WHAT ALBUM THIS PERFORMANCE IS FROM?

[emperorsdragon]

If its any help to you, I have a CD entitled

JW The Texas Tornado. This is a compilation CD is marketed by Charly Records LTD published 1992. Whether this was only

[emperorsdragon]

I was going on to say ( until I hit send) it may have only been published in Europe.

Anyway this track is on the CD.

Good Luck

[Dialoquese]

I think you may be right about it being a hollow body. Had one years ago and sound came out similar, but the other fella at the top says tele.

I have a tele and altho this doesn't sound like any pickup I've heard it has a upper register overtones like one. So who knows.

[My64Firebird]

Cool! Doesn't sound like a 335 or the Firebird either. He played Epiphone Wilshire, Fender Mustang, ESP telecaster, SG Custom, Les Paul Custom and Erlewine Lazer of course. Maybe this could be the ESP Tele, since the highs are sharp and the lows are straight too. PU's sound like humbuckers that were on the ESP.

[slickerflicker]

!!! GREAT !!! *****+

[sparklewebs]

... i'll never forget seeing johnny at all the freak fests lol ... always got the boogie going when johnny took the stage ... thanks for the awesome memories, ... dude ... you rock!!!

[shockabilly56]

This is one of my favorite blues songs of all time done by one of the best bluesmen of all time.Sounds better than my old crackly album version. What an original Johnny is. What a singer too. LOVE that voice.

[ontariobuds]

@shockabilly56 yeah man, so true. I'm lucky that my mom's favorite guitar player is Johnny.

That is how I heard his music, not I'm hooked on Johnny like he is a drug.

[ax1sg]

Kick ass, as only Johnny can dp it...truely one of the Great Blues Players in any age...

thanks for sahring...

davido

[liftdrag]

Super

[jrbaylor]

badass!

[wingandaprayer]

superb...but thats not acoustic...sounds like a gibson hollow body played gently...

[Sarasmiles1820]

Thanks for posting this great tune!