Step Back (album)

Step Back
Johnny Winter, wearing a broad-brimmed hat and playing a guitar
Studio album by
Johnny Winter
ReleasedSeptember 2, 2014
GenreBlues
Length50:33
LabelMegaforce
ProducerPaul Nelson
Johnny Winter chronology
Live Bootleg Series Vol. 11
(2014) 		Step Back
(2014) 		Remembrance Vol. 1
(2015)

Step Back is the nineteenth and final studio album by blues guitarist and singer Johnny Winter. It features performances by a number of guest musicians, including Jason Ricci, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Lou Marini and Tom Malone from The Blues Brothers Band, Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top, Joe Perry from Aerosmith, Leslie West from Mountain (Winter had guested on West's Still Climbing the previous year), and Brian Setzer from the Stray Cats. It was released by Megaforce Records on September 2, 2014.[1][2][3][4]

As on Winter's previous studio album, Roots, the songs are mainly blues standards.[5][6] Roots and Step Back were both produced by his guitarist Paul Nelson.[7][8]

Step Back was released posthumously. Winter had finished recording the album, and then played a concert tour in Europe, before he died on July 16, 2014.[9][10] The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for Blues Albums[11] and Independent Albums,[12] and at No. 17 on the Billboard 200.[13]

At the 2015 Grammy Awards, Step Back won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album.[14][15] Step Back also won the 2015 Blues Music Award for Best Rock Blues Album.[16]

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  16. ^ Marshall, Matt (May 7, 2015). "2015 Blues Music Awards Winners". American Blues Scene. Retrieved June 16, 2017.