Serious Business (album)

Serious Business
Johnny Winter, wearing a broad-brimmed hat and playing a guitar
Studio album by Johnny Winter
Released 1985
Genre Blues
Length 44:26
Label Alligator
Producer
Johnny Winter chronology

Guitar Slinger
(1984)		 Serious Business
(1985)		 Third Degree
(1986)

Serious Business is an album by guitarist and singer Johnny Winter. It was released in 1985 on vinyl and CD by Alligator Records.[1]

Serious Business was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.[2]

Critical reception

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Allmusic [3]

On AllMusic, William Ruhlmann said, "Signing to the Chicago-based independent blues label Alligator Records, [Winter] staged his own comeback with 1984's Guitar Slinger, and its follow-up, Serious Business, is in the same vein. That vein is straight Chicago-style electric blues in the manner of Muddy Waters.... He was already developing from his old mile-a-minute playing style into more of an expressive bluesman in the late '70s. Here, the transition is complete.... Maybe Johnny Winter isn't trying to be a superstar anymore, but his striving to be a consummate bluesman is wholly successful."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Master Mechanic" – 3:37
  2. "Sound the Bell" – 3:23
  3. "Murdering Blues" – 5:02
  4. "It Ain't Your Business" – 3:50
  5. "Good Time Woman" – 6:03
  6. "Unseen Eye" – 4:18
  7. "My Time After Awhile" – 6:13
  8. "Serious as a Heart Attack" – 3:31
  9. "Give It Back" – 3:48
  10. "Route 90" – 4:07

Personnel

Musicians
Production

References

  1. ↑ Serious Business at Discogs. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Grammy Awards 1986", Awards & Shows. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ruhlmann, William. Serious Business at AllMusic. Retrieved November 26, 2014.