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Johnny Winter: The Blues Rock Legend Too Many Still Overlook - Blues Rock Review
A few recordings / performances mentioned in the article.
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07-22-2025 10:34 AM
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Johnny was a force of nature.It's a crime the way his last management team kept pushing him out on stage even though he wasn't well.
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I saw him in his later (but not last few) years. It was a hot set in a small theater. Glad I went, but it was a far cry from his live stuff from the late '60s and early '70s. Phenomenal player.
Originally Posted by nyc chaz
BB's story about meeting Johnny Winter:
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I didn't realize it until many many years later that Johnny was such a big influence. I loved that live Muddy "Mississippi" Waters album but there were no liner notes. 20 years later I realized it was Johnny who laced that record up with searing slide licks all over as well as the record having Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin on it as well. Absolutely formative for me.
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Yeah, I was in high school when Johnny's first album was released, it made quite an impact on rock/blues players.
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I saw Johnny twice.Once in the early 70's with the recently deceased Rick Derringer.Those two guys were blasting some of the greatest blues you were ever going to hear.They brought the best out in each other.The second time i saw him was the mid 90's and the show was more subdued but his playing was spot on.I don't think Johnny ever got the recognition he deserved.
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A track from Johnny's "Roots" album, a series of duets.
This one is with Sonny Landreth, the great slide player.
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Johnny's brother, Edgar, was also an influential musician, they recorded a couple of albums together, for example:
Together - Live - Johnny & Edgar Winter | Album | AllMusic
What are the genetic odds of two albinos in the same family?
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Albinism is autosomal recessive, meaning you have to receive one gene from each parent who is a carrier (not albino). Therefore, the odds of one child being albino is 25%, and having 2 children with albinism would be 0.25^2 or 6.25%. Originally Posted by Mick-7
There is an excellent documentary on Johnny called Down and Dirty. Highly recommended. Too bad he didn't take better care of himself; he might still be around.
Last edited by Doctor Jeff; 07-23-2025 at 02:00 PM.
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I always liked the way Johnny did John Lennon's "Rock and Roll People."
"Captured Live" is from '75. I was in 11th grade and listened to this on an 8-track while riding around Northeast Mississippi.
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I imagine that was all there was to do in NE Mississippi at the time… Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
Funny I was doing the same thing at that time in NE Georgia, listening to Johnny’s brother, Edgar.
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Pretty much. It was a dry country, so we had to drive to the Tennessee state line to buy beer, turn around and drink it while riding around listening to 8-track tapes. Sometimes cops would pull us over and take our beer. We thought that was real shitty of them. Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff
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Heck that's exactly what we did--drive to Tennessee from our dry county in North GA to buy beer! Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
Pretty much. It was a dry country, so we had to drive to the Tennessee state line to buy beer, turn around and drink it while riding around listening to 8-track tapes. Sometimes cops would pull us over and take our beer. We thought that was real shitty of them.
I remember once we were driving around with a 12 pack or 2 in the back seat of my friend's '75 Camaro, and we had stopped on a quiet side street on Missionary Ridge to listen to tunes and perhaps for some herbal enhancement.
A cop showed up out of nowhere and asked Tim to get out of the car. He saw the beer and said, "You guys drinkin'?"
Tim said, "Not me officer, I'm driving." He might not have been completely forthcoming with the truth there...
"Well, you boys take it easy and be sure to get home safely."
He didn't take the beer.
I did have a cop confiscate the joint that I unwisely lit in the parking lot of a furniture store one night, but he didn't arrest me or cite me. He said something to the effect of, I'll let you off, but if I come across you again expect to pay a visit to the jail.
Dang the number of times we were let go for stuff that could land a kid in the slammer these days...
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Johnny was a huge influence, he is talked about till this day.
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Sounds so familiar! Sometimes they did not take our beer, or give us any static: "Drive home safe." In retrospect, although we were glad things happened that way, it wasn't exactly prudent to let teenage boys off the hook for drinking and driving. Originally Posted by Doctor Jeff
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I cannot believe that no one I know died from a drunk driving accident, although I know a lot of people who admit they “wrecked dad’s car” while drinking. Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
Sounds so familiar! Sometimes they did not take our beer, or give us any static: "Drive home safe." In retrospect, although we were glad things happened that way, it wasn't exactly prudent to let teenage boys off the hook for drinking and driving.
I think that most people didn’t drive too fast. Cars didn’t handle too well back then and didn’t have a lot of safety features, but they were slow and built like tanks (until the Japanese cars became ubiquitous). Traffic was not as heavy as it is these days.
Mostly dumb luck though.
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