He picked the songsalthough he did do that one ("I Can't Be Satisfied") for me. Working as the blues legend's producer, Winter sparked a late-career resurgence for Watersbeginning with 1977's Hard Again, which included a raw new take on I Can't Be Satisfied." That's my favorite part of my career," Winter enthuses. Winter, of course, has a long history with Muddy. Winter also goes it alone on a pair of familiar blues standards, Robert Johnson's ∽ust My Broom" and the Muddy Waters hit Got My Mojo Workin,'" which skips along at a breakneck pace. John Medeski then gets greasy and good on the old John Lee Hooker/Ray Charles hit ∼ome Back Baby," pulling this rib-sticking, gospel-drenched sound out of the organ. Last Night" finds John Popper, of Blues Traveler fame, curling up at Winter's feet, chortling and chugging on the harmonica. Warren Haynes, of the Allman Brothers and Gov't Mule, sits in for a stamping update of James' ∽one Somebody Wrong" everything that happened, you know I am to blame!" Winter shouts, and he doesn't sound too sorry at all. The opening T-Bone Shuffle," featuring Sonny Landreth, finds Winter in fine voicesinging in sweet counterpoint to Landreth's tangy slide retorts on the old 1940s-era T-Bone Walker vehicle. All of those songs, I really identify with." It's very exciting, a record that really takes me back. They're songs I grew up really liking, things I was really influenced by," Winter told us. The Megaforce Records release boasts an all-star cast of guest artists including Derek Trucks, Vince Gill, Susan Tedeschi and his brother Edgar Winter, performing tracks originally done by everyone from Elmore James to Bobby ∻lue" Bland. Johnny Winte returns to some of his earliest childhood favorites, and a few tracks from his first bar bands, on the aptly titled new project Roots.
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