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While his blues-rock guitar-god brother Johnny forged a fiery career that would influence Stevie Ray Vaughan and a whole generation of showy young ax-slingers, young Edgar Winter followed a more idealistic, fashion-be-damned muse that bounded across R&B, jazz, gospel, and rock borders with gleeful abandon. Those influences bubble up throughout this 15-track anthology of the younger multi-instrumentalist Winter's first decade of recording, insuring a compelling listening experience by the sheer breadth of its ambition. Indeed, there are several Winters on display here: the genre-bending artist whose debut album could deliver convincing jazz fusion ("Entrance," "Fire and Ice"), then turn on a dime to pump out a blues-and-gospel drenched version of Loudermilk's "Tobacco Road" with brother Johnny's band; the R&B sparkplug of White Trash, the proto-Blues Brothers show band of "Keep Playin' that Rock & Roll" and "Give It Everything You've Got"; and the monster hitmaker of "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride" (produced by longtime Winter cohort Rick Derringer and featuring an underrated powerhouse quartet that featured guitar star Ronnie Montrose and vocalist Dan Hartman). --Jerry McCulley
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Tracks| 1 | Frankenstein | | 2 | Give It Everything You Got | | 3 | Dying To Live | | 4 | Save The Planet | | 5 | Tobacco Road | | 6 | Turn On Your Lovelight (Live) | | 7 | Harlem Shuffle (Live) | | 8 | Entrance | | 9 | Fire And Ice | | 10 | Fly Away | | 11 | It's Your Life To Live | | 12 | Rock And Roll Revival | | 13 | We All Had A Real Good Time | | 14 | Keep Playin' That Rock 'N' Roll | | 15 | Free Ride |
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