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.
Background
The original LP was released as a double album, but side D contained no tracks, while side A included three songs and sides B and C each contained four songs.[5] According to Winter himself, this format was chosen due to a technical limitation because all 11 tracks could not fit on a single record without reducing the volume level.[6] When released on CD, all tracks were compiled onto a single disc.
In Winter's home country of the United States, the album did not achieve a Top 40 position on the Billboard chart following his previous album Johnny Winter (1969). However, the album entered the UK Albums Chart, reaching a peak position of number 59.[7]
The 2004 Legacy Edition included two previously unreleased tracks as bonus material on disc one along with a bonus disc titled Live at the Royal Albert Hall, featuring live recordings from a concert held on April 17, 1970.[8] This bonus disc also contains an early version of "Frankenstein" which would later be released by Edgar Winter with his own group.
^ a bKoda, Cub. "Second Winter - Johnny Winter : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
^Bangs, Lester (December 27, 1969). "Records". Rolling Stone. No. 49. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. p. 58. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
^John Metzger. "Johnny Winter - Second Winter: Legacy Edition (Album Review)". Musicbox-online.com. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
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