Friday, July 18, 2014

RIP Johnny Winter

The albino blues guitarist died yesterday at the age of 70. His obituary is here.

I never met Johnny, but I met his brother Edgar. (Johnny was basically Edgar with tattoos.) When I worked at WPGU in Champaign, and I was working the late night shift, I used to play my share of Johnny's music on the air. One of the songs I played was this one from Woodstock...