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  • Full name, John Dawson Winter, III; born February 23, 1944, in Leland, Miss.; son of an Army officer. Addresses: Home-- New York City. Record company-- Voyager, 424 35th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122.

    In 1968 an article in Rolling Stone, written by Larry Sepulvado and John Burks, entitled "Texas" stated, "Imagine a 130-pound cross-eyed albino bluesman with long fleecy hair playing some of the gutsiest blues guitar you have ever heard." By 1969 Johnny Winter had signed with Columbia Records for a reported $300,000 and soon released his incredible self-titled debut LP.

    "He played the blues, real driving blues that had the heaviness of Chicago pumping underneath it and his darting lines dancing melodically over it," wrote Gene Santoro in The Guitar: The History, The Music, The Players. "Like Bloomfield's band and the Blues Project, he pulled blues classics, like 'Mean Mistreater' and 'When You Got A Good Friend,' back into the mainstream of rock music and forced rock guitarists once a