![]() Unlike other white blues guitarists of the day, he didn’t just dabble in the blues, never went soft, never took the easy money of hard rock when his peers did. He was an albino magus who cast spells in blues, armed with a metal slide, a cackling laugh and his history written in tattoos over his translucent frame. She goes “He looks like a witch.”ĭamn right Johnny Winter was a witch. One day she asked what that record was that I kept playing, and when I showed her the cover, Winter with his long white hair, weird cape shirt and his eyes closed as if in a trance. First cut is the old Larry Williams tune “Bony Moronie”, and to this day I can recall the rush that would rise up my back when Winter sang: “I’ve got a girl named Bony Moronie/She’s as skinny as a stick of macaroni.” I would let that tape play over and over, louder than hell, until my mom came home from work. Don’t remember much of what I got (I think Frampton Comes Alive was one, didn’t everyone own that?), but the two that have stuck with me were ZZ Top’s Fandango and Johnny Winter Captured Live! I can remember coming home from school to an empty house, hitting the power on my Sound-design stereo, and slamming in the 8 track of Captured Live! – yeah baby, 8 tracks – and cranking those poor speakers to their limit. ![]() “He looks like a witch.” Johnny Winter takes his rest James Mannīack in my early high school days, around 14 or so, I joined the Columbia Record and Tape Club, lured in with the “11 tapes for a penny!”.
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