“Johnny Winter was a 24-year-old legally blind albino kid from Texas when in 1968 Mike Bloomfield introduced him onstage as "the baddest motherfucker." Winter proved he was just that, bringing his high-voltage blues everywhere from the Fillmore West to Woodstock – often going on ragged, technically astounding tangents. Sadly, it took Winter's death, at 70 in July, to get casual fans listening again”
