Johnny and Edgar Winter: Highway 61 Revisited

This is all terrific, but the way they end the song really shows what a great band this is. The other guitarist is Rick Derringer.

Obviously, Johnny has some health problems. At the other end of the spectrum is Fast Life Rider, recorded in a strange club setting when the brothers were kids. Both songs were on Second Winter, a double album with one blank side. Here is Johnny’s site, Edgar’s and Derringer’s.

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    [...] in Newport included James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Sly and the Family Stone, Jeff Beck, Savoy Brown, Johnny Winter, The Buddy Guy Blues Band, The Mothers Of Invention and Ten Years. It’s strange they [...]

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    [...] The amount of talent on YouTube and similar sites is astounding. Many of the performers are not complete unknowns, but don’t have national audiences. A good example of this is The Steve Thorpe Band. Thorpe, who unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago, was a fabulous guitarist in the Johnny Winter mode. [...]

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