Johnny Winter

As a young blues phenomenon from Beaumont, Texas, slide guitarist and singer Johnny Winter exploded on the national scene in 1969 with a self-titled debut album featuring “Leland Mississippi Blues” and B.B. King’s “Be Careful with a Fool.”  His high-voltage blues rock achieved superstar status in the 1960s and ‘70s with albums like Second Winter and Still Alive and Well.  A three-time Grammy Award-winning producer of albums of the Muddy Waters albums Hard Again and I’m Ready. Winter returned to his own blues roots in the 1980s with Guitar Slinger and Third Degree.