Johnny Winter, a rail-thin blues guitarist known for his scorching riffs, flowing white hair and gravelly, hard-times voice, died Wednesday in Switzerland at the end of a European tour. He was 70. His ...
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 is truly the colorless man. Born legally blind and albino in the wake of the 1943 race riots in Beaumont, Texas, Winter had a sort of invisible green card to get in to black clubs like ...
You couldn't get a much better blues baptism than Johnny Winter did. "I was about 17," Winter has recalled of his 1962 date with destiny and blues legend B.B. King at the Raven, a club in Beaumont, ...
With the release of From His Head to His Heart to His Hands earlier this year, Legacy Recordings proved it was possible to put together a career-spanning retrospective, even if the artist's ...
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nearly nine years after Johnny Winter’s death, a battle for control of the legendary blues guitarist’s music is being fought in court with allegations of theft and greed flying ...