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His self-titled second album was released in 1969 with the same backing musicians as his first album.

Representatives of Columbia Records were in the audience, and they signed him to a contract with a record-breaking $600,000 advance. In December 1968, Mike Bloomfield invited Johnny Winter to play a song during a concert at the Fillmore East in New York City. to invite the albino guitar slinger onstage, and when he started playing, he blew both the discerning black audience and B.B. In walk four white guys, and one of them was “REALLY white.” One of the guys convinced B.B. King, the King of the blues, recalled playing a small club in Texas in the mid-1960s to an all-black audience.

Johnny Winter's first album, The Progressive Blues Project, was released on a local label in 1967.Īlmost immediately, Johnny’s prodigious talent was recognized by both his peers and blues legends alike. This album featured what would become Johnny’s regular backing band, featuring Tommy Shannon on bass, Uncle John Turner on drums, and Edgar Winter on keyboards and saxophone. The following year, Johnny’s first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment, was released on a local Austin-area label (it would be reissued the following year by United Artists). His band, Johnny and the Jammers, recorded a single, “School Day Blues,” on a local label, and in 1967, Johnny cut his first solo single, a cover of Jimmy McCracklin’s “Tramp,” which displayed his brand of in-your-face blues guitar pyrotechnics. As a fifteen-year-old, Johnny went to see blues greats Muddy Waters, B.B. Both brothers were multi-instrumentalists, with Johnny specializing in guitar and Edgar gravitating towards varous keyboard instruments. Goode (featuring Edgar Winter)īorn on February 23rd, 1944 in Beaumont, Texas, and raised in a musical family, Johnny Winter and his brother, Edgar, both of whom were born with albinism, began performing at a young age. Tell the Truth (featuring Edgar Winter).I Can't Stand It (featuring Edgar Winter).You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now/Mean Mistreater.Johnny Winter performing on-stage at Woodstock. Performed Monday morning, August 18, midnight–1:10 am Just after midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning, the Woodstock audience got a taste of high-energy blues-rock from one of the best in the business, Johnny Winter.Ĭelebrating the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock festival, August 1969–2019 Day Three, Performer 5: Johnny Winter