JOHNNY WINTER DIED PLUS
Via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Includes unlimited streaming of Texas '63 - '68 It is the best precursor to his breakout disc “The Progressive Blues Experiment” and the “Johnny Winter” album. This is the first collection of the “early years” to distinguish between the formative Blues roots and the push to the Rock idiom. After a short college stint, he gave up his academic pursuits and devoted himself to creating music. As a teen, nearly every weekend he would hitch-hike to Louisiana to play in small night clubs. Something of a musical child prodigy, he grew up in Beaumont, Texas, on a diet of blues and rock 'n' roll. Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, Johnny was the unofficial torch-bearer for the blues, championing and aiding the careers of his idols like Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Johnny has always been one of the most respected singers and guitar players in rock and the clear link between British blues-rock and American Southern rock. He performed at a French blues festival only two days prior to his Jdeath in Zurich, Switzerland at age 70. The lightning-quick guitarist fulfilled that wish magnificently, decade after decade.
Johnny Winter had a singular career plan: playing music. Waters once said, "That guy up there onstage - I got to see him up close.2 Compact Discs / 40 Tracks / 3 Previously Unreleased Recording. "I got a standing ovation, and he took his guitar back." "He gave me his guitar and let me play," Winter said. Johnny Winter, one of the most fleet and wily blues guitarists of the rock era, has died. The two met when Winter was around 17 - after the teenager bugged the bluesman to let him play with him on stage. Hard Again in 1977, along with three other Grammy-nominated records. It was the most emotional music I'd ever heard."Ī longtime fan of Muddy Waters, Winter produced and played guitar on Waters' Grammy-winning album "I just liked the emotion and the feeling in the music. "Not many white people in Beaumont cared about the blues," he "I went to black clubs all the time, and nobody ever bothered me. "Nothing ever happened to me," Winter said on his website. And it seems that even in the racially charged era of the 1950s and 60s, the albino kid was seen as just another person who loved the blues.
Winter has said he benefited from being exposed to many styles of music as a kid, particularly the blues music he would hear in clubs in his native Beaumont, Texas. His website calls Winter "the clear link between British blues-rock and American Southern rock (a la the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd)." In the rankings of the all-time greatest guitarists, Winter was named No. The songs on those albums were a mix of originals and standards - but they were all defined by the liquid speed Winter was able to pour out of his guitar. One year later, he released his self-titled album, and then a follow-up called That same year, he released his first album, Winter emerged on the national scene in 1968 after being featured in a He had maintained a busy touring schedule, with dates in the U.S., Canada, South America and Europe scheduled for a four-month tour that was to begin this month.Īs a guitarist, Winter was adept at both finger-picking blues grooves and rock-star pyrotechnics, building on the talents that had marked both him and his younger brother Edgar as musicians early in their lives - they formed their first band when Johnny was 15.īoth brothers were born with albinism, and as adults, they grew their white hair long, making them a striking presence on stage.
Winter reportedly died in his hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland. Winter's death was confirmed by his publicist, who issued a statement saying, "His wife, family and bandmates are all saddened by the loss of one of the world's finest guitarists." Winter, who was 70, had been set to release a new album this fall. Johnny Winter has died, ending a long and expansive career that included working alongside bluesman Muddy Waters and playing at the Woodstock festival.
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