Johnny Winter has passed away at 70.
Damn. 
Bye Johnny. I can go buy that copy of The Progressive Blues Project now.
I never heard much of his music, but I was never unimpressed by the stuff I did.
R.I.P, Johnny. Truck on out and spread the news.
I didn’t follow Johnny’s career closely, but I did have that first album, plus Johnny Winter And. Both very good.
His passing was noted on NPR’s 8:00 newscast this morning, and I was very chuffed to hear them play “Be Careful With a Fool” from that first album as background music for the story. I remember the guitar work in that one really turning my head around back in the day.
R.I.P. Johnny.
Dang. He was featured in Vintage Guitar magazine fairly recently. He seemed pretty happy and healthy.
He was a great guitarist. RIP.
He has a new “album” coming out in September.
And in the Classic Rock (a British mag) that’s right now sitting on my coffe table, bought a couple of weeks back. I bought it mainly because of that article, having seen him once without previous knowledge of his work and thoroughly loved the show.
I can’t remember whether he was due to have a show in Barcelona in the next few weeks or just had one. I’d wanted to go but couldn’t, bad dates.
R.I.P. Johnny. He was scheduled to do a tour with his brother Edgar later this summer.
I saw him play in Chicago in the mid 80s, at the Aragon Ballroom. Roy Buchanan was the opening act. Great show.
RIP to the whitest guy in blues.
Didn’t listen to him a lot, but I’ve always liked what I heard. And he did know how to rock a Gibson Firebird guitar (he also played this little guitar called a Lazer, I think - ugly as sin, but he made it work!).
RIP Johnny.
Be sure you get the 2005 Capitol Records release; it was remastered and sounds much better than the original CD release.
RIP Mr. Winter; thanks for all you done.
Had no idea he was 70 already, Godspeed Johnny!
used to see him quite a bit in the Miami area, many times at the Agora Ballroom Hallandale Beach - he blew the doors off!
Nah, I am gonna splurge and get the vinyl if it’s still in the store tomorrow. I didn’t get it before because I’d bought two quintessential albums in a row where their creator died soon afterwards, and I got spooked. They also had Second Winter, which I may grab if it’s still there.
But if I end up with a CD, I will follow your advice.
And in the grand tradition of corrections: It’s The Progressive Blues Experiment. I’m a nitwit.
I’ve got a tape somewhere of his first album, and also a Muddy Waters LP that he played on. I need to go dig those out and have a listen… it’s been years.
RIP Johnny.
Ah, man - loved Johnny.
RIP.
RIP Johnny.
Damn! I saw Johnny perform three times, in '69, '71 and '89. All three times he was a consummate showman, delivering a powerhouse performance. Back when I was in college, in the golden age of vinyl, his three-sided album, “Second Winter” was the coolest package ever. And his cover of “Highway 61 Revisited” from that album remains, in my mind, the definitive version of the song.
RIP - 
Only saw him once, June '69.
Here’s a quick little “celebration of his life”: my very favorite of his performances.
“Georgia Swing” from 1970, with James Cotton. Johnny’s two solos start at 1:06 and 3:54.
Hadn’t seen this one before - a ~26-year-old Johnny ( somewhat atypically playing a Les Paul ), with a ~24-year-old Edgar backing on saxophone: Fast Life Rider.
I blame Global Warming.