Shortly after the release of their eponymous album in September of 1970, Johnny Winter continued a relentless touring schedule through the fall of that year. Having taken just a single
Back in 2007, Dispatch shocked the world when they reunited for three benefit shows at Madison Square Garden that sold out within hours of going on sale. The jam-pop trio,
Legendary Texas blues guitarist Johnny Winter took the stage recently to a loud revelry of respect, then quietly and calmly drove home some amazing licks that only proved how he has become an idol to just about every musician who has ever plucked some strings on an old guitar since 1969 when he released his first album.
Mary Lou Sullivan artfully interweaves excerpts from a series of interviews for her biography of Johnny Winter. In doing so she depicts the albino Texan bluesman’s career in such matter of fact terms, she almost but not quite undercuts the implicit sensationalism of the book’s subtitle.
The intensity of the Allman Brothers Band’s 40th Anniversary Run didn’t drop one bit last night. I fired up the near hi-def Moogis stream just in time to catch the
