where is the love for JOHNNY WINTER AND?

RIP Johnny winter. Any Allmans fans out there have to listen to the Mountain Jam from the Atlanta Pop Featival 1970 (disc 2) where Winter sits in with the Brothers. It absolutely slays. This guy could really bring it.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2014/07/billy_gibbons_others_remember.php

RIP, whitest of the white bluesman

I kind of wish Johnny Winter had done some more of this total Dylan pastiche type pop songs. In a weird way it reminds me a bit of Malkmus in the way it's sung too on the title lyric line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue-4XF8NQ9I

There's a wild, 'throw everything at the wall' quality to those mid-'60s Winter recordings: Swamp Pop balladeering; Rascals/Mitch Ryder-style white boy R&B bangers; straight-up Nuggets Garage; and Folk Rock Dylan pastiches like that song. Unfortunately, there isn't many of any of those, as they were all cut as singles, the failure of each determining a new approach (or even stage name) for the next one.

was "avocado green" actually released at the time, or did it just appear later on compilations ?

It looks like it was cut in '66, and first appeared on a cash-in comp in 1970.

yeah seems like it. i thought maybe there was a chance it saw a release on 45, like as The Pink Walrus Certainty or something

"Avocado Green" by Brownie Pitts & the Guac Party

The Guacamole Conservatory

Cicadelic put out a fairly exhaustive Winter '65-'68 anthology a few years ago: http://www.cicadelic.com/Byrds%20Can't%20Row%20Boats.htm

Here's a good piece from '94 on Winter's producer during that mid-'60s period, the notorious dirtbag & rip-off artist Roy C. Ames: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/a-hard-case-of-the-blues-6572947

cool, thanks for that

here's a roy ames joint with johnny on lead guitar. and dig the fuzz bass !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq1KW4z9kVU&feature=emb_title
the great believers - comin' up fast pt. 1 (cascade 1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq1KW4z9kVU

The collection I have is this 2 CD collection called Texas Blues.

https://img.discogs.com/AzRaycYhe-euVHb1f0jH72jtIjE=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7482736-1442393818-2489.jpeg.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Winter-Texas-Blues/release/7482736

I'm guessing it is of obscure origins.

I've got the Winter Essentials '60-'67 2-disc on Fuel. I was even able to get it signed at in-store he did one of the last times he was in town (maybe <the> last time). He was in pretty rough shape, hunched over in a chair behind a table, a little wizened longhair albino in a big black hat, looked like he came straight from Lord of The Rings.

Glam-ass Johnny in '74.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLTZMIJtmw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhrIXj0wEI

Everything that is right and wrong about Classic Rock is in this footage

^new borad description

Everything that is right and wrong about Classic Rock

...would have required a guest sax or synth solo from brother Edgar.

Why not both?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8f-Qb-bwlU