Johnny Winter  by Johnny Winter

In 1969, the Texan blues-man Johnny Winter releases his second solo album, titled after his own name. The Johnny Winter album is a blues record, which is included among the blues albums that changed the sound of this particular music as recording techniques had been modernized. The album was recorded in Nashville during February and March of 1969. The album's production is managed by Johnny Winter himself.

The record consists of nine songs, three of which are compositions by Winter, while the rest are under the signatures of composers like BB King, Robert Johnson, or Lightnin' Hopkins. From this alone, one can understand that Johnny Winter wants to incorporate the American blues past into the – then – modern era.

The album reached No. 24 on the Billboard and is that album of Johnny Winter that achieved the second highest position on this particular chart of success.