Jesse Winchester Rock & Roll debuted to great acclaim at

debuted to great acclaim at the Newport Jazz Festival

with high energy in the first four tracks

no two are the same

let alone of the Bay Area musical scene

Jesse Winchester Rock & Roll debuted to great acclaim atJesse Winchester first gained notice as a protg of the Band's Robbie Robertson, who produced and played guitar on his debut album and brought along bandmate Levon Helm to play drums and mandolin. The album had much of the rustic Southern charm and rollicking country rock of the Band. Winchester's other immediate appeal was a certain sense of mystery. A Southern American expatriate living in Canada, he was unable to appear in the U. S. to promote the