it ain't nothin' to me!
I was listening to Johnny Winter before I was old enough to understand what he was singing about. Ok, maybe it wasn’t by choice, but my father installed some serious music values into me and my sister – we grew up believing that rhythm and blues and blues rock was the only possible acceptable music. Lord knows how my dad handled my Nirvana phase, and I won’t even go into Def Leppard or horror of all horrors, Bon Jovi. My sister at least was getting into The Cure and alternative, which was *almost* ok.
Still, funny how now blues rock plays such an important part in my musical tastes. I only rediscovered Johnny Winter a few months ago, although Led Zeppelin and such I had been slowly merging into my awful collection of Body Count, Blue, Def Leppard, Roxette, Dr. Dre and (dare I say it) Bon Jovi. I think there was even some David Hasselhof in there at some point.
Johnny Winter is just plain awesome, there’s nothing else I can say about him other than check out these truly epic JW classics and you might start to understand why this man is considered one of the world’s top guitarists. Unfriggingbelievably good, every single time.
She said whaaat?