Ryan Werre of Desert Blume Golf Club in Redcliff, Alberta got his 15 minutes of fame earlier this summer when - as tournament leader - his approach shot found a tree on the final hole of the Alberta Mid-Amateur. In addition, the Stanley Thompson design was the site that played host to the 1945 Canadian Open where Byron Nelson claimed his remarkable 11th victory in a row. The Thornhill Club, in its 100th year of operation, has a rich history in championship play having previously hosted the 2014 Canadian Junior Girls Championship, the 2006 Canadian University/College Championship, and the 2009 Toronto Star Women’s Amateur. “An exceptional field of talent has joined us this week in Thornhill, and we expect they’ll bring the best out of each other as they compete for this prestigious title.” “The excitement continues to build around this year’s Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur championship,” said Tournament Director Adam Cinel. The 72-hole national championship will conclude on Friday, August 26, where champions will be crowned in the Men’s Mid-Amateur and Mid-Master divisions. All eyes are on three-time champ Garrett Rank, who typically gets his game in top shape in the late summer months before the NHL referee hangs up the sticks to begin working the fall/winter hockey season.
#Johnny winter live youtube series#
This set blows the stuff in Winter’s own officially released bootleg series away, and becomes his definitive live recording, hands down.The 35th playing of the Canadian Men’s Mid-Amateur Championship is now underway. Even though Derringer wrote it, this one blows away the JWA studio version or Derringer's own hit single take. It’s simply that in comparison to all the brilliant spontaneity and furious energy on the rest of the set, it feels too controlled. The only track that really doesn’t impress here is “Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo,” but not because its performance is substandard. Its fiery, steel-melting intensity features some of the most vicious slide guitar on record to come out of the '70s. The closing read of Muddy Waters’ “Rollin’ and Tumblin'” is only 4:33, but makes one wish it were three times that long. The version of “Mean Town Blues” on this set becomes the definitive one - in large part because of Derringer’s complementary counterpoint lead work - as does “It’s My Own Fault,” which transcends its slow tempo and becomes something wholly other.
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The furious abandon he plays with is unchallenged on any of his live records it’s Elmore James by way of Mike Bloomfield with Winter's gnarly single-string fills, full of distortion and barely controlled volume. “Highway 61 Revisited" here contains the slide guitar workout from Winter we hoped for on the Second Winter album and never got. The improvisation and guitar challenges are voluminous, wildly energetic, and creative. The former clocks in at 22 minutes and the latter at 18. The other two cuts that are duplicated, “It’s My Own Fault” and “Mean Town Blues,” are both much longer on this gig.
That said, the symbiotic interplay between Winter and second lead guitarist Rick Derringer (who went by his real name of Zehringer then) on this version sounds like a switchblade duel. For listeners who are casting a wary eye at this review, one need only compare the two versions of “Good Morning Little School Girl,” which are only a second different in length. The sound quality is phenomenal and the energy on this gig not only rivals that of the previous record, it leaves it in the dust. This is the Johnny Winter And group simply tearing it up on a selection of originals and covers. Sony let Collectors' Choice take some prime stuff from the vaults for this one. It smokes, but not as hard as this set, recorded a week or two before at the Fillmore East in 1970. As a single LP it clocked in at just under 40 minutes. That record, taken from performances at the Fillmore East and from a gig in Florida, was comprised mainly of rock & roll covers and a couple of originals. For decades now, we’ve thought of Live Johnny Winter And as the seminal live JW document from the early part of his career.