Second Winter

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Second Winter
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 27, 1969
RecordedJuly 19–22 and August 8–12, 1969
Nashville, Tennessee
Genre
Length47.03
Label Columbia
Producer Johnny Winter
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Second Winter is the third studio album by Texas blues guitarist Johnny Winter, released in 1969. The original plan was to edit the songs from the recording session into one album but it was later thought that all the recordings were good enough to be released. The album was released as a "three-sided" LP, with a blank fourth side on the original vinyl. Two more songs, "Tell the Truth" and "Early in the Morning" were left unfinished but released on a 2004 re-release of the album.

Contents

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Memory Pain" Percy Mayfield 5:27
2."I'm Not Sure"Johnny Winter5:18
3."The Good Love"Dennis Collins4:38
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Slippin' and Slidin'"Eddie Bocage, Al Collins, Little Richard, James Smith2:43
2."Miss Ann"Enotris Johnson, Little Richard3:04
3."Johnny B. Goode" Chuck Berry 3.45
4."Highway 61 Revisited" Bob Dylan 5:07
Side three
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Love Everybody"Johnny Winter3:50
2."Hustled Down in Texas"Johnny Winter3:31
3."I Hate Everybody"Johnny Winter2:35
4."Fast Life Rider"Johnny Winter7:05
5."Early In the Morning" (Legacy Bonus Track)Dallas Bartley, Leo Hickman, Louis Jordan 3:49
6."Tell the Truth" (Legacy Bonus Track)Lowman Pauling4:30
Legacy Edition Bonus Disc Live at Royal Albert Hall 04-17-70
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Help Me" Ralph Bass, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Willie Dixon 4:49
2."Johnny B. Goode"Chuck Berry3:41
3."Mama, Talk To Your Daughter"A Atkins, J. B. Lenoir 5:16
4."It's My Own Fault" B. B. King, Jules Taub12:00
5."Black Cat Bone"Johnny Winter5:38
6."Mean Town Blues"Johnny Winter11:13
7."Tobacco Road" John D. Loudermilk 11:05
8."Frankenstein" Edgar Winter 9:11
9."Tell the Truth"Lowman Pauling9:08

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