the difficult second Lp

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.

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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".

The Doors' follow-up album was at least equal to the debut eponymous album from this group. And Strange Days lacked the perverse lyric found in the first album's last cut; "The end".

Others would say that both "Days" and the debut album are from the same bin of material. It was the 3rd album that seemed to stumble. Then it was the 4th album that fell flat. And finally they found their footing on the Morrison Hotel and LA Woman albums. Then, perhaps mercifully for their front man, it was over.

But that was a long time ago.

-Steve