Johnny Winter Arkansas River Blues festival

About Johnny Winter

American blues guitarist and singer (born February 23, 1944 in Beaumont, Texas USA - died July 16, 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland). Like his brother, he was afflicted with albinism - he was legally blind, and had 20/400 eyesight in one eye and 20/600 in the other, but he made an iconic life for himself by playing the blues. He battled alcoholism and drug use over the years. His first instruments were the clarinet and the ukulele, settling on guitar by age eleven. Something of a musical child prodi...