Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, known for his lightning-fast blues guitar riffs, his striking long white hair and his collaborations with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and childhood hero Muddy Waters, has died. He was 70.
Winter was a leading light among the white blues guitar players, including Eric Clapton and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, who followed in the footsteps of the earlier Chicago blues masters. Winter idolized Waters — and got a chance to produce some of the blues legend's more popular albums. Rolling Stone magazine named Winter one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
His representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday that Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich a day earlier. The statement said his wife, family and bandmates were all saddened by the loss of one of the world's finest guitarists.
There was no immediate word on the cause of death. John Dawson Winter III was born on Feb. 23, 1944, in Mississippi, but was raised in Beaumont, Texas. He was the older brother of Edgar Winter, also an albino, who rose to musical fame with the Edgar Winter Group. He was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988.
Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, known for his lightning-fast blues guitar riffs, his striking long white hair and his collaborations with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and childhood hero Muddy Waters, has died. He was 70.
Winter was a leading light among the white blues guitar players, including Eric Clapton and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, who followed in the footsteps of the earlier Chicago blues masters. Winter idolized Waters — and got a chance to produce some of the blues legend's more popular albums. Rolling Stone magazine named Winter one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.
His representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday that Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich a day earlier. The statement said his wife, family and bandmates were all saddened by the loss of one of the world's finest guitarists.
There was no immediate word on the cause of death. John Dawson Winter III was born on Feb. 23, 1944, in Mississippi, but was raised in Beaumont, Texas. He was the older brother of Edgar Winter, also an albino, who rose to musical fame with the Edgar Winter Group. He was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988.
Maybe it's not true. What are the other news outlets reporting saying ?
It's also being "disseminated" by the NY Times, CNN, and Winter's own website, so it would appear Fox News accurately reported the story. That must be why neptune chose to get his news from Fox.
Neptune's choice of news services here has nothing to do with his political views, though it is filled with irony. Let's leave that out of our love of great blues guitar.
Neptune's choice of news services here has nothing to do with his political views, though it is filled with irony. Let's leave that out of our love of great blues guitar.
And yet his political views have much to do with anyone else's choice of news services - which also mirror his. That's some mighty fine irony there. Of course, now that the veracity of neptune's original post can be independently verified, we must face the cold reality of Winter's untimely death. It's a damn shame.
