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
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.
The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record
Every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell, but I'm still alive and well.
Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it
I love playing guitar. It's the only thing I've ever really been great at,
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.
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
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.
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
Little Walter I would've liked to have played with
I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself