Search - Artist/Band: Johnny Winter

• Name: Johnny Winter
• Birthday: 02/23/1944
• Birth Place: Beaumont, TX
• Decades Active: 1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Rock
• Styles: Blues-Rock, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Electric Texas Blues, Regional Blues, Slide Guitar Blues, Album Rock, Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Boogie Rock, Electric Blues, Electric Texas Blues
• Moods: Rowdy, Brash, Confident, Fiery, Freewheeling, Organic, Passionate, Rambunctious, Reckless, Rollicking, Rousing, Sleazy, Raucous, Rebellious

Title	Release
Black Cat Bone: The Anthology	09/30/2008
Roots N' Blues: Scorchin' Blues W	09/05/2008
Nothin But the Blues/White, Hot and Blue W	09/27/2007
Saints & Sinners/John Dawson Winter III W	09/18/2007
Rockin Bluesman	08/08/2006
Gangster of Love [Creative Sounds]	05/24/2006
An Introduction to Johnny Winter	02/28/2006
Johnny B. Goode W	08/02/2005
I'm a Bluesman W	06/15/2004
Winter Essentials 1960-1967 WA	06/17/2003
The Ultimate Collection WA	09/24/2002
The Houston Sessions WA	07/23/2002
38-32-29 Blues WA	03/26/2002
Raised on Rock	03/09/2002
Best of Johnny Winter [Columbia/Legacy] WA	01/29/2002
Original Winter: The Sixties Sessions WA	10/09/2001
No Time to Live	09/11/2001
Deluxe Edition WA	01/30/2001
White Lightning/Broke & Lonely WA	11/14/2000
Platinum Series	10/17/2000
Return of Johnny Guitar WA	08/15/2000
Back in Beaumont WA	07/11/2000
Black Cat Bone: Electric Blues Man, Vol. 2	01/26/1999
Masters	10/06/1998
Suicide Won't Satisfy	09/15/1998
Livin' in the Blues [Delta]	07/21/1998
Anthology	04/28/1998
Winter Heat WA	04/28/1998
Texas Blues WA	04/07/1998
White Heat WA	10/28/1997
White Hot Blues	10/07/1997
Relix's Best of the Blues, Vol. 2	04/15/1997
Electric Blues Man WA	10/01/1996
Sideman WA	04/30/1996
Broke & Lonely WA	03/12/1996
Ease My Pain WA	03/12/1996
Livin' in the Blues [Sundazed] WA	03/12/1996
Jack Daniels Kind of Day WA	01/02/1996
Rock & Roll People WA	12/01/1995
A Rock N' Roll Collection	1994
Five After Four AM	1994
Hey, Where's Your Brother? WA	07/1992
Scorchin' Blues WA	06/16/1992
Gangster of Love [Collectables]	1992
The Texas Tornado WA	1992
Let Me In WA	08/1991
Blue Suede Shoes WA	1991
A Lone Star Kind of Day	1990
Early Heat	1990
Birds Can't Row Boats WA	1988
The Winter of '88 WA	1988
Third Degree WA	1986
Serious Business	1985
Guitar Slinger WA	1984
Raisin' Cain WA	1980
White Hot & Blue WA	1978
Early Winter WA	1977
Nothin' But the Blues WA	1977
Nightrider	1974
Saints & Sinners WA	1974
Still Alive and Well WA	1973
Before the Storm	1972
Winter's Scene WA	1972
Johnny Winter And WA	1970
Johnny Winter WA	1969
Second Winter WA	1969
Living in the Blues [Thunderbolt]

blues guitarist Johnny 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. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide