A frail albino from Beaumont, Texas, Winter struggled through a life of alienation. Writing in Rolling Stone magazine, after. Last night, blues guitar legend Johnny Winter died in a hotel room in Switzerland. The release of the box set back in February provides the broadest survey of the star's talent. According to his guitarist friend and record producer Paul Nelson, Winter died of emphysema combined with pneumonia. Winter continued to perform, making his last appearance New York earlier this year at B.B. Texas blues legend Johnny Winter has died, ending a long and expansive career that included working alongside bluesman Muddy Waters and playing at the Woodstock festival. The Winter-produced albums became the most commercially successful of Waters' career. Johnny Winter was a blues guitarist who played at Woodstock and formed a fruitful partnership with Muddy Waters. His productions for Waters returned that icon to the sound of his greatest recordings for Chess. The legal fight pits Winter’s former personal manager and bandmate, Paul Nelson, against the family of the bluesman’s late wife, Susan, who died in 2019. So his albums moved more towards traditional blues. 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 back and forth. ![]() ![]() "I wanted to get back to my roots," he said. During the decade, he cleaned up and then spoke openly of his struggles, with the intent to help others so afflicted.īy the late '70s, Winter decided to change his musical approach. Winter racked up other hit albums in the early to mid'70s but an addiction to heroin began to take its toll. Johnny Winter proved to be an exception and received 3,750 for his time, but lost out on a bigger payday later due to a lack of forethought from his manager. His representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday that Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich a day earlier. Look for a full obituary in Friday’s American-Statesman.Though albinoism made his look distinctive, it was his guitar stylingst that really stood out. Rolling Stone magazine named Winter one of the top 100 guitarists of all time. Shannon said he last saw Winter at an Antone’s memorial show for Uncle John Turner, who played with Winter and Shannon in the late 1960s, after Turner’s death in July 2007. Shannon also played with Winter at Woodstock in the summer of 1969. Shannon recalled Thursday that Winter’s band jammed with Waters after-hours, planting the seeds for Winter’s production work with Waters later. 2 on the Megaforce label.Īustin bassist Tommy Shannon, who later became a member Double Trouble backing Stevie Ray Vaughan, played with Winter in 19, including a show at the Vulcan Gas Company opening for Waters. A new album titled “Step Back,” featuring collaborations with Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Ben Harper, Dr. “True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story,” a four-CD box set, came out earlier this year on Sony Legacy, and the documentary film “Johnny Winter: Down and Dirty” premiered at South by Southwest in March. Winter continued recording and touring throughout his life and was in the midst of a very active stretch in 2014. In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Winter produced a series of Grammy-winning albums for blues master Muddy Waters for Columbia affiliate Blue Sky. Diego Tuson/AFP/Getty Images Texas blues legend Johnny Winter has died, ending a. Winter put out his 1968 debut album, “The Progressive Blues Experiment,” on Austin label Sonobeat before moving on to Columbia Records, for whom he made a string of definitive blues guitar albums in the late ’60s and ’70s. Legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter, seen here performing in Valencia in 2008, has died at age 70. Legendary blues guitarist Johnny Winter, a native of Beaumont who performed often at 1960s and ’70s-era Austin venues such as the Vulcan Gas Company and Armadillo World Headquarters, died Wednesday at a hotel room in Zurich, his publicist confirmed to The Associated Press Thursday morning. ![]() Editor’s note: This article was originally published July 17, 2014
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