Johnny Winter (USA)

John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014), known as Johnny Winter, was an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. Best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s, Winter 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". Johnny Winter was born in Beaumont, Texas. Winter and younger brother Edgar (born 1946) were nurtured at an early age by their parents in musical pursuits. Johnny and his brother, both of whom were born with albinism, began performing at an early age. When he was ten years old, the brothers appeared on a local children's show with Johnny playing ukulele.
His recording career began at the age of fifteen, when his band Johnny and the Jammers released "School Day Blues" on a Houston record label.  During this same period, he was able to see performances by classic blues artists such as Muddy Waters, B.B. King, and Bobby Bland. In the early days, Winter would sometimes sit in with Roy Head and the Traits when they performed in the Beaumont area, and in 1967, Winter recorded a single with the Traits: "Tramp" backed with "Parchman Farm" (Universal Records 30496). In 1968, he released his first album The Progressive Blues Experiment, on Austin's Sonobeat Records.Winter produced three Grammy Award-winning albums by Muddy Waters — Hard Again (1977), I'm Ready (1978), and Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (1979). Several of Winter's own albums were nominated for Grammy Awards — Guitar Slinger (1984) and Serious Business (1985) for Best Traditional Blues Album, and Let Me In (1991) and I'm a Bluesman (2004) for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In 2015 Winter posthumously won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album for Step Back. The album also won the 2015 Blues Music Award for Best Rock Blues Album. At the 18th Maple Blues Awards in 2015, Winter was also posthumously awarded the B.B. King International Artist of The Year Award.
Winter was professionally active until the time of his death near Zurich, Switzerland, on July 16, 2014. He was found dead in his hotel room two days after his last performance, at the Cahors Blues Festival in France on July 14, at the age of 70. The cause of Winter's death was not officially released. According to his guitarist friend and record producer Paul Nelson, Winter died of emphysema combined with pneumonia.

1968

LP/Sonobeat Rs-1002/ 10tr./ 44:16 min.

CD/1990/One Way 57340

1969

Columbia 9826/ 9 tr./ 34:15 min.

 1969

Columbia 9947/ 11 tr./ 46:57 min.

 1969

Oh Boy TEX7/ 7 tr./ 42:42 min. (bootleg)

1969

Buddah 7513/ 11 tr./ 27:56 min.

 1970

Columbia / 11tr./  41:36

 1971

Columbia 30475/ 6 tr./ 40:22 min.

1972

Success 1616/ 10 tr./ 29:59 min.

 1973

Columbia 472707/ 10 tr./ 44:28 min.

1974

Iconography ICO44/ 9 tr./ 79:50 min.

1974

Columbia 472766/ 10 tr./ 41:24 min. 

 1974

Blue Sky 472770/ 11 tr./ 38:10 min.

1974

Relix 2045/ 17 tr./ 45:09 min.

 1976

Blue Sky 33944/ 6 tr./ 46:00 min.

 1976

Blue Sky 467784/ 7 tr./ 37:22 min.

 1977

Blue Sky 34813/ 9 tr./ 34:43 min.

1978

Rocks 92097/ 7 tr./ 70:53 min.

 1978
Blue Sky 472768/ 9 tr./ 36:26 min.

 1979
MiG 90362-2 CD/ 14 tr./ 122:45 min.

 1980
Blue Sky 472772/ 11 tr./ 43:05 min.

 1981
Thunderbolt 77/ 10 tr./28:36 min.

 1984
Alligator 4735/ 10 tr./ 39:46 min.

 1985
Alligator 4742/ 10 tr./ 43:52 min.

1986

Alligator 4748/ 10 tr./ 44:06 min.

1987

Castle 167/ 17 tr./ 67:44 min.

1988

Relix 2034/ 15 tr./ 37:35 min.

 1988
MCA 255932/ 12 tr./ 54:27 min.

 1988
P-Vine 1611/ 21 tr./ 56:30 min.

 1989
P-Vine 2508/ 20 tr./ 54:19 min.

1990

Relix 2042/ 17 tr./ 47:04 min.

1990
Fire Dollar 50/ 11 tr./ 74:38 min (bootleg)

 1990
Special Music C. 4816/ 14 tr./ 39:03 min.

 1990
Pulsar PUL012/ 11 tr./ 37:46 min.

1991

Thunderbolt 108/ 17 tr./ 39:45 min.

1991
Thunderbolt 136/ 16 tr./ 56:22 min.

1991
Virgin/Pointblank VPB5/ 13 tr./ 49:18 min.

1992
Virgin/Pointblank VPB11/ 14 tr./ 54:39 min.

1992

Legacy 52466/ 10 tr./ 44:02 min.

1992
Altaaya/Charly BP05/ 12 tr./ 34:20 min.

1992
Columbia 471840/ 18 tr./ 74:22 min.

 1992
Relix 2048/ 10 tr./ 49:04 min.

1993

Prestige Elite012/ 12 tr./ 70:37 min.

1996

Success 16266/ 19 tr./ 53:51 min.

 1996
Thunderbolt 166/ 9 tr./ 46:04 min.

 1996
Collectables 507/ 12 tr./ 34:21 min.

 1998
Sony Music BUK 50251/ 10 tr./ 37:24 min.

 1998
MIL 9901-3 CD/ 44 tr./ 111:57 min.

1998

Pointblank 45527/ 9 tr./ 57:54 min.

 1998
Laserlight 21241/ 12 tr./ 35:28 min.

 1998
Snapper -2 CD/ 29 tr./ 79:30 min.

 2000
Zounds 44006/ 18 tr./ 74:04 min.

 2000
Music Club 270/ 12 tr./ 61:55 min.

 2001
Alligator 5609/ 14 tr./ 63:10 min.

2001

Disky 640212/ 18 tr./ 49:49 min.

2003
Fuel 2000 61309/ 40 tr./ 97:24 min.

 2004
Virgin 77768/ 13 tr./ 50:56 min.

 2006
Fuel 2000 615142/ 18 tr./ 43:43 min.

 2006
Music Avenue 250121/ 19 tr./ 65:05 min.

 2007
Epic/Legacy 707283/ 11 tr./ 59:22 min.

2007

Friday Music 1064/ 12 tr./ 64:16 min.

2008
Friday Music 1083/ 6 tr./ 54:01 min.

2008
Friday Music 1085/ 7 tr./ 54:29 min.

2008
Friday Music 1100/ 10 tr./ 49:06 min.

2009
Legacy 48244-2 CD/ 18 tr./ 99:17 min.

 2009
Friday Music 1143/ 8 tr./ 54:44 min.

 2010
Friday Music 1156/ 7 tr./ 52:33 min.

 2009
Megaforce 1603/ 11 tr./ 52:39 min.

2013

Friday Music 1162/ 7 tr./ 66:40 min.

2013
Friday Music 1163/ 7 tr./ 44:23 min.

 2013
Friday Music 1164/ 7 tr./ 43:31 min.

2014

Megaforce 1696/ 13 tr./ 50:24 min.

2015

Friday Music 1166-3 CD/ 25 tr./ 133:45 min.

2016
Friday Music 1167/ 7 tr./ 52:12 min.

2016
Friday Music 1169/ 7 tr./ 48:21 min.