Johnny Winter

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and record producer. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums, live performances and slide guitar playing from the late 1960s into the early 2000s. He 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". He was the brother of Edgar Winter, whose success peaked in the 1970s with his band the Edgar Winter Group with their popular songs "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride".
==Links to Peel==
After a write-up in a Rolling Stone article on Texas music, Johnny Winter was signed by CBS Records in 1969 and was heavily promoted as a new blues-rock guitar sensation and as one of the label's roster of exciting new "Rock Revolution" artists. Peel played a few tracks by him in 1969 and 1970 on his radio programmes and he also mentioned on his 2nd May 1970 Disc & Music Echo column that he saw the singer perform at the Pop Proms. 
However, he doesn't seem to have been over-impressed by Winter; n his Disc report he mentioned being disturbed by what he saw backstage at the Pop Proms concert and in a 1973 Sounds column recalled "the glory day in the Round House when J. Winter's camp threatened me with considerable violence if I forgot one jot or title of the lengthy and immaculately choreographed introduction to his boy". Later JP was critical on-air of Winter's contribution ("shouting") to a Muddy Waters album. At any rate, according to existing tracklistings the only Johnny Winter tracks Peel played were those from the singer's first two LPs listed below. 
==Shows Played==
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*25 May 1969: I'm Yours And I'm Hers (LP - Johnny Winter) CBS
*22 June 1969: Leland Mississippi Blues (album - Johnny Winter) CBS
*06 July 1969: I'm Yours And I'm Hers (LP - Johnny Winter) CBS
*27 July 1969: Black Cat Bone (LP - Johnny Winter) CBS
*22 November 1969: Slippin’ And Slidin’ (2xLP – Second Winter) CBS
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*10 January 1970: Hustled Down In Texas (album - Second Winter) CBS
==See Also==
* Gigography 1970
*Sounds
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
Category:Artists