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Johnny Winter: Johnny Winter And Live

John Morthland, Creem, June 1971

HOW, YOU MIGHT be asking yourself, could this not be a killer album? After all, it may have taken two albums and several tours, but Winter has definitely proven himself a great guitarist, overhype or no. And his new band of old McCoys was one of the high points of last year. So, theoretically, all you'd have to do would be to turn on the tape recorder one night and you'd have yourself a bitch of an LP, right?

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