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
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.
Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.
No, I wasn't doin' any heroin when I was with Muddy.
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.
I never really got to know Jimi as a person.
My mother played piano so we always had music around the house
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.
I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think
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,
I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of 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.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.