the difficult second Lp

REM followed up their seminal "Murmur" with "Reckoning"...and almost eclipsed it IMHO...great songs,simple production=timeless release. Stumbled a bit on "Fables"...but 2 out 3 ain't bad!

Johnny Winter hit the ball out of the park with his second album, "Second Winter". It still rocks and has great sound (the original LP and the remastered CD). A classic.

Interestingly, "Second Winter" was not Johnny Winter's second album. The first being "Progressive Blues Experiment" followed by "Johnny Winter", "Second Winter" being his third album.

Speaking of second Winters, Edgar's debut was a stone mash up of jazz, blues, rock. soul and trance, "Entrance". It was followed by the equally strong, though very different sounding "Edgar Winter's White Trash". The subsequent two albums "Roadwork" and "They Only Come Out At Night being almost as strong as the first two.

Absolutely Free

ty lindisfarne. to switch to the "greatly improved second album" mode, you'd have to look at "astral weeks" (which i've always regarded as a tad overrated, but still great) and "the bends".