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''True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story'' is a compilation album by blues rock guitarist and singer Johnny Winter. Comprising four CDs, and packaged as a box set, it contains songs selected from numerous albums — some recorded in the studio and some live — released over a 43-year period, from 1968 to 2011, as well as several previously unreleased tracks. The box set also includes a 50-page booklet of essays and photos. It was released by Legacy Recordings on February 25, 2014.〔 ==Critical reception== On AllMusic, Steve Legett said, "by the end of (1960s ) Winter had returned to the blues, where being an amazing electric guitar player with a roaring voice brought him his true calling. That's where this four-disc, 56-track box set picks up the story, the first such set to span the commercial and in-the-public-eye portion of Winter's career, beginning in 1968 and running all the way through to his ''Roots'' album, which was released in 2011, deftly drawing on some 27 albums from various labels ... It's an impressive catalog of blistering slide runs and manic, propulsive blues shuffles, stomps, and boogies, all delivered with Winter's roar of a voice. Winter's career has made him nothing short of a monument, really, in the postmodern blues world ..."〔 In All About Jazz, John Kelman wrote, "''True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story'' does, indeed, focus heavily on the albino Texan's first and most successful decade—and, most assuredly not coincidentally, the time when he was ... signed to Columbia Records, a label then prepared to put serious money behind him, and ultimately yield significant visibility. Still, this four-disc, four-and-a-half hour collection does manage to include, on the fourth CD, at least ''some'' representation of Winter's post-Columbia discography for labels like Alligator and Virgin, straight through to his 2011 Megaforce release, ''Roots''."〔 On Ultimate Classic Rock, Jeff Giles said, "How do you sum up a recording career spanning more than five decades and over 25 albums? There’s obviously no foolproof way to do it, but the folks at Legacy have made it look easy with ''True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story'' … if you’ve never experienced Johnny Winter's music, ''True to the Blues'' makes for an excellent primer, offering choice moments throughout his development as a singer, songwriter, and player."〔 In PopMatters, Steve Horowitz wrote, "(the late '60s and early '70s Johnny Winter ) was a blues rocker with an emphasis on the rocker. But then Winter changed to a more blues oriented musician. As this compilation shows, Winter always had elements of both genres in his electric guitar playing … The anthology shows Winter had the cosmic ability to shred and find the soul of a song from the beginning. He took his axe to newly discovered worlds of feedback and kept on whacking."〔 On No Depression, Grant Britt said, "This is a fitting epitaph, but still not his final statement. The latest chapter of his continuing roots saga called ''Step Back'' was set to come out in September featuring a dazzling array of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Leslie West, and Dr. John. But his is not a tragic ending. Johnny Winter went out still at the top of his powers after doing yet another successful show, giving his fans what they wanted but could never get enough of. That's a legacy any man would be proud to leave behind."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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