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Let Me In (Johnny Winter album)

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Released
  
June 8, 1991

Label
  
Pointblank

Release date
  
8 June 1991

Length
  
49:18

Artist
  
Johnny Winter

Genre
  
Blues

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Let Me In (1991)
  
Hey, Where's Your Brother? (1992)

Producers
  
Dick Shurman, Johnny Winter

Nominations
  
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album

Similar
  
Hey - Where's Your Brot, Serious Business, Third Degree, I'm a Bluesman, Saints & Sinners

Let Me In is an album by guitarist and singer Johnny Winter. It was released in 1991 on vinyl and CD by Pointblank Records.

Contents

Let Me In was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Thom Owens said, "Though the set focuses on blues material, Winters can never leave his rock roots behind — the sheer volume and pile-driving energy of his performances ensures that."

In the Chicago Tribune, Dan Kening wrote, "The original "White Tornado" returns with a strong outing that both reinforces his reputation as a world-class blues guitarist and indicates a growing maturity.... Winter shows he has at long last learned to balance technical flash with emotional substance."

In the Chicago Reader, David Whiteis wrote, "Johnny Winter's Let Me In is a new contribution from a bluesman well on his way to elder-statesman status.... At this point Winter's guitar is beyond criticism — he's toned down his excesses, but he's still got that machine-gun multinote style, playing straight-ahead blues in manic linear patterns — he doesn't build a solo so much as blast straight through it."

Track listing

  1. "Illustrated Man" (Fred James, Mary-Ann Brandon) – 3:37
  2. "Barefootin'" (Robert Parker) – 4:06
  3. "Life Is Hard" (Fred James) – 6:17
  4. "Hey You" (Mike Himelstein) – 2:42
  5. "Blue Mood" (Jessie Mae Robinson) – 3:01
  6. "Sugaree" (Marty Robbins) – 2:57
  7. "Medicine Man" (Robbie Fisher, Henley Douglas) – 4:22
  8. "You're Humbuggin' Me" (Rocket Morgan, J.D. Miller) – 2:43
  9. "If You Got a Good Woman" (Johnny Winter) – 4:23
  10. "Got to Find My Baby" (John Heartsman) – 2:40
  11. "Shame Shame Shame" (Jimmy Reed) – 4:16
  12. "Let Me In" (Johnny Winter) – 4:11
  13. "You Lie Too Much" (Mac Rebennack) – 4:03

Personnel

Musicians
  • Johnny Winter – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
  • Jeff Ganz – electric bass, fretless bass, upright bass
  • Tom Compton – drums
  • Dr. John – piano on "Barefootin'", "Life Is Hard", "Sugaree", "You Lie Too Much"
  • Ken Saydak – piano on "If You Got a Good Woman"
  • Billy Branch – harmonica on "Hey You", "If You Got a Good Woman", "Shame Shame Shame"
  • Dennis, Margaret, Johnny and Brian Drugan, Dave Brickson, John Gabrysiak, Dick Shurman – ensemble vocals on "Hey You"
    • Production
  • Dick Shurman, Johnny Winter – producers
  • David Axelbaum – engineer
  • Dave Brickson – assistant engineer
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Mark Weiss – photography
  • Bill Smith – design
  • Recorded and mixed at Streeterville Recording Studios, Chicago

    • Songs

    1Illustrated Man3:40
    2Barefootin'4:04
    3Life Is Hard6:19

    References

    Let Me In (Johnny Winter album) Wikipedia
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