Captured Live!

1976 live album by Johnny Winter

Captured Live!

Live album by

Johnny Winter

Released

March 1, 1976

Recorded

September 14, 1975, Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, California
September 18, 1975, Sports Arena, San Diego, California
September 20, 1975, Coliseum, Oakland, California

Genre

Rock and roll^[1]

Length

46:00

Label

Blue Sky

Producer

Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter chronology

John Dawson Winter III
(1974)

Captured Live!
(1976)

Together
(1976)

Captured Live! is a 1976 album by Johnny Winter. The performances were recorded in 1975 at three California venues: Swing Auditorium, San Diego Sports Arena and Oakland Coliseum.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Rolling Stone	(Not Rated)^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings	^[3]

In a review for AllMusic, William Ruhlmann gave the album three and a half out of five stars. He notes that Winter only wrote one of the songs and added:

All the songs are basically vehicles for his guitar playing, sometimes performed in unison with [second guitarist Floyd] Radford. Winter plays fast, filling up measures with torrents of notes that must impress any guitar fan, and he earns the big cheers heard in between numbers. It's no surprise that his biggest seller is a live album [Live Johnny Winter And (1971)], and this one is another accomplished effort.^[1]

Track listing

Songwriters and track running times are taken from the original Blue Sky Records LP.^[4] Other releases may have different listings.

Side 1

"Bony Moronie" (Larry Williams) – 6:50
"Roll With Me" (Rick Derringer) – 4:46
"Rock and Roll People" (John Lennon) – 5:39
"It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack, Shirley Jean Womack) – 6:15

Side 2

"Highway 61 Revisited" (Bob Dylan) – 10:38
"Sweet Papa John" (Johnny Winter) – 12:37

Personnel

Musicians^[4]

Johnny Winter – guitar, slide guitar, vocals
Floyd Radford – guitar
Randy Jo Hobbs – bass guitar, background vocals
Richard Hughes – drums

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Ruhlmann, William. "Johnny Winter: Captured Live! – Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 23, 2012.
^ "Rolling Stone Music | Album Reviews". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved June 23, 2012.^{[dead link]}
^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 723. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
^ ^a ^b Captured Live! (Album notes). Johnny Winter. Blue Sky Records. 1976. Record labels. PZ 33944.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)