Johnny Winter
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John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), 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 magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Early life
Johnny Winter was born in Beaumont, Texas, on February 23, 1944. He and younger brother Edgar (born 1946) were nurtured at an early age by their parents in musical pursuits. Their father, Leland, Mississippi native John Dawson Winter Jr. (1909–2001), was also a musician who played saxophone and guitar and sang at churches, weddings, Kiwanis and Rotary Club gatherings. Johnny and his brother, both of whom were born with albinism, began performing at an early age. When Winter was ten years old, the brothers appeared on a local children's show with Johnny playing ukulele.
Career
Johnny and the Jammers' debut "School Day Blues" on a Houston record label began his recording career at the age of 15. During the same time, he was able to see performances by legendary blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Bobby Bland. Winter used to perform in the Beaumont area with Roy Head and the Traits, and in 1967, Winter released a single backed by "Parchman Farm" (Universal Records 30496). On Austin's Sonobeat Records, he recorded his first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment, in 1968.
During a Bloomfield and Al Kooper concert in New York City, Winter got his biggest break in December 1968, when Mike Bloomfield, whom he encountered and jammed with in Chicago, invited him to sing and perform a song. As it happened, representatives of Columbia Records (which had released the Top Ten Bloomfield/Kooper/Stills Super Session album) were on hand at the concert. B.B. Winter performed and sang B.B. The King's "It's My Own Fault" rose to high praise, and within a few days, the recording industry's biggest leap in history was announced at $600,000.
Johnny Winter, Winter's first Columbia album, was recorded and released in 1969. On 2 tracks, the same backing singers with whom he had recorded The Progressive Blues Experiment, bassist Tommy Shannon, and drummer Uncle John Turner, as well as saxophone, will be included, as well as Willie Dixon on upright bass and harmonica. The collection included a few selections that became Winter's most popular songs, including his composition "Dallas" (an acoustic blues on which Winter performed a steel-bodied, resonator guitar), John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson's "Good Morning Little School Girl") and B.B. "Beware with a Fool," the King's advice.
The album's success coincided with Imperial Records' decision that The Progressive Blues Experiment was a success. The Winter trio appeared at many rock festivals, including Woodstock, in the same year. Winter also released his second album, Second Winter, in Nashville in 1969, with brother Edgar as a full member of the group. There were only three recorded sides on the two-disc set (the fourth was blank). It featured more staples of Winter's concerts, including Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" and Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited." Johnny was involved in a brief love affair with Janis Joplin that culminated in a performance at Madison Square Garden in New York, where Johnny appeared and performed on stage.
Johnny Winter did not appear with Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison on the legendary 1968 Hendrix bootleg album Woke up this Morning and Discover Myself Dead from New York City's Scene club, contrary to urban legend. "I never even met Jim Morrison," Winter says. Jimi and Jim is on the album, but I don't think I am 'cause I have never met Jim Morrison in my life!' I'm positive I never played with Jim Morrison at all! I'm not sure how [rumors] got off."
The first of many Johnny Winter albums, which were cobbled together from about fifteen singles (about 30 "sides") he performed before he signed with Columbia in 1969, began in 1969. Many of the winter books were created by Roy Ames, the current owner of Home Cooking Records/Clarity Music Publishing, who had only been involved with Winter. Winter left town for the explicit purpose of being away from him, according to an article in the Houston Press. Ames died of natural causes at the age of 66 on August 14, 2003. As Ames' left no definite heirs, the Ames master recordings' ownership rights remain unclear. "This guy has screwed so many people it makes me mad to even talk about him," Winter said in an interview when Roy Ames came up.
The original trio disbanded in 1970, when Edgar Winter's Entrance released a solo album Entrance and formed Edgar Winter's White Trash, an R&B/jazz-rock band. Johnny Winter formed a new band with the McCoys' remnants: guitarist Rick Derringer, bassist Randy Jo Hobbs, and drummer Randy Z (who was Derringer's brother, their family name being Zehringer). The name was changed to "Johnny Winter And" in the early days, which was also the name of their first album. The album featured Derringer's "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" and signaled a more rock-oriented direction for Winter. Randy Z was swapped with drummer Bobby Caldwell when Johnny Winter Anders began to tour. On the live album Live Johnny Winter And, the combination of the new rock songs with Winter's blues songs was caught. It featured a new interpretation of "It's My Own Fault," the song that brought Winter to Columbia Records' attention in January.
During the Johnny Winter And Days, Winter's momentum was stifled as he sank into heroin use. Winter was invited by music journalist Steve Paul to openly discuss the addiction after he sought medical assistance and recovered from the heroin use. He returned to music in 1973 with the release of Still Alive and Well, a simple blend of blues and hard rock whose title track was written by Rick Derringer. The "And" line-up at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York, minus Rick Derringer and Bobby Caldwell, was minus. Johnny's wife Susie was also on stage. Saints & Sinners and John Dawson Winter III, two albums that were released in 1974, are both heading in the same direction. Johnny returned to Bogalusa, Louisiana, in 1975, to record an album for Thunderhead, a Southern rock band that would later appear with Winter. Captured Live!, a second live Winter album, was released in 1976 and features an extended version of "Highway 61 Revisited."
Winter often recited how, as a youth, he dreamed of performing with Muddy Waters, a blues guitarist. He had a chance to perform Waters, the singer responsible for bringing blues to Chicago, in 1974; the resulting concert, "Blues Summit in Chicago," was the start of a television series named "Blues Summit in Chicago). Waters' long-time label Chess Records went out of business in 1977, and Winter brought Waters back to the studio to record Harder for Blue Sky Records, a label that was established by Winter's boss and released by Columbia. Winter performed guitar with Waters veteran James Cotton on harmonica in addition to recording the album. Waters, I'm Ready (with Big Walter Horton on harmonica), King Bee), and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters are two more studio albums from Winter. Waters' three Grammy Awards and an additional Grammy for Nothin' But the Blues, Winter's own Nothin' But the Blues, were supported by Waters' band members. Waters told Deep Blues author Robert Palmer that Winter had done an excellent job in reproducing the sound and atmosphere of Waters' vintage Chess Records recordings from the 1950s. "Between Hard Again and The Last Waltz [1976 concert film by The Band], Waters received a major career boost, and he found himself on tour again for large and enthusiastic audiences," AllMusic writer Mark Deming wrote.
Johnny and Edgar Wilson began a lawsuit in 1996 against DC Comics and the makers of the Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such limited series, alleging, among other things, defamation: two characters in the series closely resemble the Winters. The brothers said the comics falsely depicted them as "vile, depreved, stupid, cowardly, subhuman people who participate in wanton acts of violence, assassination, and bestiality for pleasure and who should be executed." The California Supreme Court ruled in favour of DC Comics, finding that the comic books were deserving of First Amendment protection.
Winter began recording for many labels, including Alligator, Point Blank, and Virgin, where he concentrated on blues-oriented stuff after his time with Blue Sky Records. He married Susan Warford in 1992. He received a Grammy Award nomination for his I'm a Bluesman album in 2004. A collection of live Winter albums titled the Live Bootleg Series and a live DVD have all made it to the top ten Billboard Blues chart since 2007. The Woodstock Experience album was released in 2009, which featured eight songs that Winter performed at the 1969 festival. Johnny Winter, a 2011 Canadian born musician, debuted Roots on Megaforce Records. It includes Winter's interpretation of eleven early blues and rock 'n' roll hits, as well as several guest artists (Vince Gill, Sonny Landreth, Susan Tedeschi, Edgar Winter, Warren Haynes, and Derek Trucks). Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Leslie West, Brian Setzer, Dr. John, Paul Nelson, and Joe Perry's latest studio album, Step Back (which features appearances by Joe Bonamassa, Eric Clapton, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Leslie West, Dr. John, Brian Setzer, Dr. John, Ben Harper, and Joe Perry) was released on September 2, 2014. In 2015, Nelson and Winter received a Grammy Award in the Best Blues Album category for Step Back. Winter knew it was a winner, and Winter told him, "If we don't win a Grammy for this, they're nuts."
Winter is still performing live in North America and Europe, including at festivals around North America and Europe. He headlined events such as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, the 2009 Sweden Rock Festival, the Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, and Rockpalast. On the 40th anniversary of their debut, he appeared with the Allman Brothers at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Winter performed at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festivals in 2007 and 2010. Cherry Lane Music and the Hal Leonard Corporation both produced two guitar instructional DVDs. In a private event in Nashville with Slash presenting, the Gibson Guitar Company introduced the signature Johnny Winter Firebird guitar.
Teddy Slatus, Winter Methadone's boss from 1984 to 2005, exploited his position and kept Winter Methadone from asking about getting paid. Johnny could barely talk or play anymore until Paul Nelson took over Johnny's supervision in 2005, slowly easing him out of cocaine, alcohol, and cigarettes.
Winter was still active until the time of his death near Zürich, Switzerland, on July 16, 2014. At the Cahors Blues Festival in France, he was discovered dead in his hotel room two days after his last appearance. The reason for Winter's death was not announced. Winter died of emphysema and pneumonia, according to his guitarist friend and record producer Paul Nelson.
"Winter was one of the first blues rock guitar virtuosos," David Marchese wrote in Rolling Stone magazine, "everyone of the first blues rock guitar virtuosos in the late sixties and early seventies, becoming a popular and fiery rock guitar virtuoso in the process, becoming a top-level concert draw in the process."
Muddy Waters – Rainmaker (1977), I'm Ready (1978), and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters (1979). Many of Winter's own albums were nominated for Grammy Awards, including Guitar Slinger (1984) and Serious Business (1985) for Best Traditional Blues Album, and Let Me In (1991) and I'm a Bluesman (2004) for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In 2015, Step Back received the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. The album also received the Best Rock Blues Award in 2015. Winter was also named with the B.B. at the 18th Maple Blues Awards in 2015. The King International Artist of The Year Award has been given to the artist of the year.
Winter was on the front page of the first issue of Guitar World in 1980. In 1988, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, becoming the first non-African-American entertainer to be inducted into the Hall.
Several guitarists have cited Winter as a source of influence, including Joe Perry, Frank Marino, Michael Schenker, Adrian Smith, and Alex Skolnick.
May You Live in Interesting Times: A Memoir (2021), comedian and founding Saturday Night Live cast member Laraine Newman recounts losing her virginity to Johnny Winter in the late 1960s at the age of 17.
Johnny Winter debuted (alongside brother Edgar) in Ben Meade's documentary film American Music: Off the Record in 2008.
Winter played a variety of guitars throughout his career, but he is most well known for his use of Gibson Firebirds. He owned several but he liked a 1963 Firebird V model.Winter explained:
The Firebird V was a departure from Gibson's original layout, with mini-humbucker pickups in place of the company's standard sized PAF humbucker or P-90 single-coil pickup units. Winter referred to the tone in a 2014 interview: if you're looking for a unique way to express yourself In a new interview.
In 2008, the Gibson Custom Shop produced a limited Johnny Winter Firebird V, which was displayed at a lunch in Nashville with Slash presenting.
Mark Erlewine, a luthier, arrived in Winter 1984 with his Lazer electric guitar. Winter responded immediately after finding it without a headstock or a small body: "The first day I plugged it in, it sounded so good that I wanted to use it for a gig that night."He commented:
A Gibson ES-125 (his first electric guitar), a Gibson Les Paul/SG Custom, a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P-90 pickups, a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P-90 pickups, a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop, an Epiphone Wilshire, a Gibson Gibson Gibson Les Paul Goldtop with P-90 pickups, a Gibson Black Beauty, a Gibson Gibson Gibson Les Paul XII (strung with only 6 strings), and an Epiphone
Winter was played with a thumb pick and his fingers. His selecting style was influenced by Chet Atkins and Merle Travis, but he never used a flat pick. Gibson's plastic thumb pick, as well as a steel pinky slide, was popular in winter, which was later sold by Dunlop.