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. He recorded it in August 1968 at the Vulcan Gas Company, an Austin music club, with his original trio of

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on bass guitar and John "Red" Turner on drums. The album features a mix of Winter originals and older blues songs, including the standards " Rollin' and Tumblin'", " Help Me", and "

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". Local Austin, Texas-based

Sonobeat Records Sonobeat Records was an independent record label owned by Bill Josey Sr. and Bill Josey Jr. The father and son team created an eclectic library of hundreds of recordings of singers, musicians, and bands in Austin, Texas between the years of 1967 ...

issued the album with a plain white cover in late 1968. After Winter signed to Columbia Records, the rights were sold to

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, who reissued it in March 1969.. The Imperial edition, with a new cover, reached number 40 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart. In 2005, Capitol issued a 24-bit remastered edition of the album on compact disc.

Track listing

Songwriters and track running times are taken from the original Sonobeat LP. Other releases may have different listings.

Personnel

vocals, electric guitar, National steel guitar, mandolin, harmonica *

bass guitar *John "Red" Turnerdrums

Footnotes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Progressive Blues Experiment, The Johnny Winter albums 1968 debut albums Imperial Records albums