JOHNNY WINTER The Progressive Blues Experiment / Johnny Winter (2010 Australian exclusive 19-track CD album - Raven presents for the first time on one CD two classic albums: 'The Progressive Blues Experiment' [1968] and 'Johnny Winter' [1969]. Recorded for Sonobeat [later licensed to Imperial] and Columbia respectively, these rowdy, rip-roarin', raucous and positively smokin' albums saw Winter kicking his career into high gear. He'd been playing around the Texas bar circuit since the early 1960s before being discovered and thrust onto the national circuit with a major article in Rolling Stone and an appearance at Woodstock. Paying tribute to his blues heroes - Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins - Winter played blues as if his life depended on it and without a hint of rock commercialism. 'The Progressive Blues Experiment' set the template with unforgettable versions of ‘Rollin' and Tumblin', ‘Forty-Four', ‘It's My Own Fault' and ‘Help Me' plus dynamic self-penned tracks ‘Mean Town Blues' and ‘Black Cat Bone'. His major label debut, 'Johnny Winter', remains one of his best recordings, with Winter tearing it up with total abandon on ‘I'm Yours and I'm Hers', ‘Leland Mississippi Blues', ‘Be Careful With A Fool' and ‘Back Door Friend'. With superb quality audio, detailed liner notes and color booklet, this top value 2-for-1 release is a must for fans of timeless electric blues rock. If you only get one CD of Winter, this is the one to have).