# Johnny Winter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-winter/25005>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 9, 2000, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-winter/25005 "2000-07-09T04:15:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Sequent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Sequent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sequent)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-winter/25005/1 "2000-07-09T04:15:08Z")

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Argument with a friend. Is he:

1\> Albino  
2\> Blind  
3\> or just vision impaired?

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**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-winter/25005/2 "2000-07-09T04:38:24Z")

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I think the whole family is.

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**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-winter/25005/3 "2000-07-09T04:58:39Z")

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According to [this site](http://www.home.ch/~spaw1203/Music/winter_bio.html), it’s 1 and 3:

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> Born cross-eyed and albino, Johnny Winter (John Dawson Winter III)…

His brother Edgar makes reference to being albino in a song, “_White Man’s Blues_.”

Do you win the argument?

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**Author:** ![Sequent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Sequent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sequent)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/johnny-winter/25005/4 "2000-07-09T05:05:04Z")

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> Do you win the argument?

I argued that he was cross-eyed but not blind. I have found one reference to him being legally blind, though. My friend says blind as in Doc Watson, which to me isn’t the same (my name is Nit, and I pick). I say, cross-eyed, but vision impaired. We both said albino and then a third person (boring day at work) objected to that.