Informationen zu "Raisin' Cain - the wild and raucous story of Johnny Winter"
Komponist/Autor: Mary Lou Sullivan
Verlag: Hal Leonard
Verlagsnummer: HL00332828
EAN: 9780879309732
ISBN: 978-0-87930-973-2
Beschreibung
Author Mary Lou Sullivan sat with Johnny Winter for hours of exclusive,
no-holds-barred interviews, covering the guitar slinger's entire career. From
toughing it out in Texas to his appearance at Woodstock, his affair with
JanisJoplin, his stadium-filling tours, and washing out on drugs and the
temptations of the road before finally fulfilling his dream of becoming a
100-percent pure bluesman, resurrecting the career of Muddy Waters, and
winning a GrammyAward for his effort, this is a raucous roller coaster of
story.
Rolling Stone magazine has called Johnny Winter one of the greatest guitar
players of all time. Ripped off and beaten down by unscrupulous
managers,strung out, living the extreme highs and extreme lows of an
uncompromising musician, Johnny is a true rock 'n' roll survivor. Signing
with Columbia in 1969 for the largest advance ever paid a musician (which led
to his appearanceat Woodstock, recently reissued in the deluxe Woodstock
Experience box set) he has jammed with guitar heavies Hendrix, Clapton, and
the Allman Brothers. He is a legend and an icon, paving the way for fellow
Texas superstarsStevie Ray Vaughan and ZZ Top. Along the way he has gone from
boom to bust and back again, but has never lost his lust for his own brand of
blues. Still on the road, playing hundreds of gigs a year to his devoted,
adoring fans,Johnny, like this book, is the real deal.
