Winter was renowned for his fiery slide-guitar skills, and was respected and admired by blues aficionados and his musical peers, alike, as well as his own heroes. While Winter amassed an impressive ...
In the late Sixties and early Seventies, Johnny Winter vied for the pinnacle of guitar heroism with the legendary likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix. In retrospect, it's not just his ...
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Watch and learn as this Blues Foundation Hall of Famer demonstrates his signature slide techniques He plays in the style of Chuck Berry Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed demonstrating Texas shuffle and slow ...
For over 40 years, Johnny Winter has been a guitar hero without equal. Signing to Columbia records in 1969, Johnny immediately laid out the blueprint for his fresh take on classic blues a prime ...
Johnny Winter, the Texas-bred guitar great who played at Woodstock in 1969, jammed with Jimi Hendrix and tirelessly championed the blues music he loved, has died. He was 70 and his most recent San ...
“I was a natural,” Rick Derringer says, dispensing with any pretense of modesty. He’s recalling the time when, at nine years old, in 1956 (the “Year of Elvis,” he calls it), he got his first real ...
Last month, blues guitarist Johnny Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich, Switzerland, at 70 years old, a month and a half before his now posthumous Step Back LP was scheduled to be released. Out ...