"Winter's final album, Step Back, doesn't always match his early grit - The Johnny Winter Story box set, released earlier this year, is much richer. With guests like Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton and Joe Perry, the new LP draws from the Fifties electric blues Winter heard as a teenager, but it loses some of those recordings' electric mud, surrounding the guitarist's ravaged howl with slick production and unimaginative arrangements".