{"id":1200,"date":"2010-06-18T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2015-10-15T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:04:56","slug":"johnny-winter-meridian-houston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/18\/johnny-winter-meridian-houston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Winter &#8211; Meridian &#8211; Houston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"contentpaneopen\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"70%\"><span class=\"small\">Written by Jim Bille <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"createdate\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\">Jun 18, 2010 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.houstonmusicreview.com\/mambo\/images\/stories\/2010concert\/061810-johnnywinters1.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" \/>Johnny Winter made an appearance at the Meridian last Saturday for one of his road shows and did not disappoint the modestly sized crowd as he displayed his legendary guitar fire with a set that featured some of his best music.<\/p>\n<p>Classic Johnny Winter material such as \u2018Good Morning Little School Girl\u2019, \u2018BlackJack\u2019 and \u2018Redhouse\u2019 was featured during Saturday night\u2019s set. The song \u2018Don\u2019t Take Advantage of Me\u2019 was the surprise number for me as I\u2019ve never heard Johnny perform this one live. Other gems featured Saturday included \u2018Lone Wolf\u2019, \u2018Boney Maroney\u2019, \u2018All Over Now\u2019, and \u2018Boogie Real Low\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The two encore numbers enabled Winter to showcase his classic slide work on his vintage Gibson Firebird. The encore songs featured were \u2018Mojo Boogie\u2019 from the album Third Degree and \u2018Highway 61 Revisited\u2019 from his album Second Winter.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Winter is probably the busiest blues guy out there today. He has been on a never ending tour for the past few years and you&#8217;re likely to catch his show anywhere from biker bars to huge musical events like Clapton&#8217;s Crossroads Guitar Festival next week. Volume 6 of his Live Bootleg Series CD was recently released, and; Gibson Guitars has issued replicas of his favorite Gibson Firebird guitar, and; an autobiography has been written chronicling his entire musical saga.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night\u2019s show was another great performance from legendary bluesman Johnny Winter.\u00a0 Hope to see him back in Houston soon.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jim Bille Jun 18, 2010 at 08:00 PM Johnny Winter made an appearance at the Meridian last Saturday for one of his road shows and did not disappoint the modestly sized crowd as he displayed his legendary guitar fire with a set that featured some of his best music. Classic Johnny Winter material&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/18\/johnny-winter-meridian-houston-tx\/\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}