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
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.
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
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12
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
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
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.
The best artists are gone now.
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.
I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues
I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll
I think the blues will always be around. People need it.
I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.