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Blues guitarist Winter became a major star
in the late '60s and early '70s. Since that time he's confirmed
his reputation in the blues by working with Muddy Waters and continuing
to play in the style, despite musical fashion. Born in Beaumont,
TX, Winter formed his first band at 14 with his brother Edgar
in Beaumont, and spent his youth in recording studios cutting
regional singles and in bars playing the blues. His discovery
on a national level came via an article in Rolling Stone in 1968,
which led to a management contract with New York club owner Steve
Paul and a record deal with Columbia. His debut album (there are
numerous albums of juvenilia), Johnny Winter, reached the charts
in 1969. Starting out with a trio, Winter later formed a band
with former members of the McCoys, including second guitarist
Rick Derringer. It was called Johnny Winter And. He achieved a
sales peak in 1971 with the gold-selling Live/Johnny Winter And.
He returned in 1973 with Still Alive and Well, his highest-charting
album. His albums became more overtly blues-oriented in the late
'70s and he also produced several albums for Muddy Waters. In
the '80s he switched to the blues label Alligator for three albums,
and has since recorded for the labels MCA and Pointblank/Virgin.
The early-2000s were quiet as far as new Winter recordings, but
there were a number of significant reissues. Alligator issued
the best of their years with the artist as Deluxe Edition in 2001,
Columbia/Legacy covered his 1969-1971 period with their 2002 release
Best of Johnny Winter, and Fuel 2000 came up with Winter's earliest
recordings and compiled them on 2003's Winter Essentials 1960-1967.
Sony reissued Winter's 1969 self-titled album with five bonus
tracks in 2004, the same year the man returned with his first
new album in nearly eight years, I'm a Bluesman. The archival
reissues continued with Fuel's Introduction to Johnny Winter in
2006, which collected sides Winter recorded in his pre-Columbia
years between 1960 and 1967 for the Dart, KCRO, Frolic, Todd,
Hall-Way, and Pacemaker imprints.
This bio courtesy www.allmusic.com
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