Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter
John Dawson Winter III, known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. After his time with Waters, Winter recorded several Grammy-nominated blues albums. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and in 2003, he was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 January 1944
CountryUnited States of America
Johnny Winter quotes about
Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.
Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll
The best artists are gone now.
When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues
There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
The Rock'n'Blues Fest is my kind of festival series! It's always great playing shows with my brother and, add to that, all the other great artists and their bands and this should make for one historic round of concerts.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,