Johnny Winter - A Rock N’ Roll Collection

Facts Johnny Winter was a Texan singer, guitarist, songwriter, and record producer best known for his high-energy blues rock albums and live performances. He also produced three Grammy Award-winning late career albums for blues singer and guitarist Muddy Waters. 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".Winter continued recording and touring right up to what was to be his last performance at the Cahors Blues Festival in France in July 2014. Writing in Rolling Stone magazine, after Winter's death, David Marchese said, "Winter was one of the first blues rock guitar virtuosos, releasing a string of popular and fiery albums in the late Sixties and early Seventies, becoming an arena-level concert draw in the process". This album was first released in 1994 and is a mix of live and studio recordings over a 10 year period bewteen 1969 and 1979.