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The Progressive Blues Experiment 1968

blues, blues rock, rock 43 min 10 tracks Sonobeat

The Progressive Blues Experiment is the unauthorized debut album by American blues rock musician Johnny Winter. He recorded it in August 1968 at the Vulcan Gas Company, an Austin music club, with his original trio of Tommy Shannon 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 "Forty-Four".

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Character

Grave, spare, character-led and intimate.

gravecomic
sparerichly built
character-ledplot-driven

Tracks

1Rollin’ and Tumblin’3:20
2Tribute to Muddy6:21
3I Got Love If You Want It3:55
4Bad Luck and Trouble3:43
5Help Me3:50
6Mean Town Blues4:33
7Broke Down Engine2:51
8Black Cat Bone3:50
9It’s My Own Fault7:24
10Forty‐Four3:37

10 tracks, 43 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Johnny Winter
Label: Sonobeat
Released: 1968
Type: Album
Format: 12" Vinyl
Country: US

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