Blues legend Johnny Winter dies at 70 in Zurich

[Locutus]

Blues legend Johnny Winter dies at 70 in Zurich

 

[SLM]

R.I.P. Mr Winter

Johnny Winters - Everybody's Blues - YouTube

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Birthdays didn't get celebrated much around our house, but I remember on my fourteenth (actually a couple days later) my mom gave me a Johnny Winter record album. Typical of her rare and wildly inappropriate gifts, I'd never heard of Johnny Winter. She probably stole it somewhere. I gave it a listen. The man was a genius.

He will be missed.

 

[Sal]

young to die...another icon goes down...RIP

 

[BaalsTears]

Old Bluesmen don't fade away...they play until the Reaper takes them. RIP Johnny.

 

[bill barilko]

young to die...another icon goes down...RIP

Actually 70 is ancient for an albino-he had a good life.

 

[gopher]

quoted in another link,


Last month, in an interview with JournalStar.com, Winter, who released more than 25 albums in his career but never won a Grammy, was asked what he'd like his legacy to be.

He replied: "I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician."


He will be for a LONG time.

 

[lone wolf]

Rest in Peace, Johnny. Of all the concerts I saw in the Gardens, yours, I remember

 

[coldstream]

RIP Johnny.. remembered fondly from the great days of FM rock.. lost touch with him in recent years (really decades).. but never my affection.

 

[gopher]

Johnny Winter said that as a child he dreamed of pickin' the axe with legendary bluesman Muddy Waters - he got his wish:

this is precious:



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