WIKI: "The Sky Is Crying" is a song that has become a blues standard The song was written and recorded by Elmore James in 1959. One of his most durable compositions,"The Sky Is Crying" was an R&B hit and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists."The Sky Is Crying" is an impromptu song inspired by a Chicago downpour during the recording session, it features James' SLIDE GUITAR WORK and vocals Listed as Elmo James and His Broomdusters it reached #15 in the Billboard R&B chart in 1960,
@slowhand19 I agree what a dumb thing to say, music, and the blues especially, has always been about putting your own spin on a tune. They are both superb guitarists and I certainly could not pick between the two lol.
Johnny lived past his prime. Guys that die in their prime are remembered differently. You never got to see them in their older years with the edge and quickness off their playing and performing in the small venues. I have never seen anyone duplicate a Johnny Winter in his prime. Still waiting after 40 years.
@tb0432 Yeah, I remember his prime days. He's still a great voice and good guitarist, but he's slowed down an awful lot in recent years. Saw and met him at the Zephyr Club in Salt Lake City in '89 or so, and he was still kickin'. Next time I saw him was at the Doheny Blues Festival in 2000 or 2001. Edgar was there as well, and he was a really cool guy. Johnny seemed to be almost paranoid. I talked with Edgar about it, but I'm not giving up the details. I love Johnny, and I love Edgar.
With over fifty years of professional performance to his credit there is no one anywhere that could hold up in a head to head competition with The Man himself. Think of the musicianship in different terms. Each person who tries to play the standards of the "Blues" can bring something a little different to the picture. That's why it is so timeless in it's imagination. The Great Howlin' Wolf wrote and performed Wang Dang Doodle, but if you hear Koko Taylor's recording you'll see what I mean.
g modal?, it doesn't matter anyway 'cause only he can play with this feel, texas via chicago, maybe duane, but he sings as well as he plays which is rarer than albino blues geniuses
All anybody has to do is find a copy of his first "white album" on Sonobeat records sold at Phils Record shop in limited numbers. I know because I bought two when I was going to college in Texas at the time in 1968. It is a tour de force like none other. Delta blues, 12 string, Dobro with a slide,unameit...every tune just sears right through you and takes every bit of your attention. IT COMMANDS YOU TO LISTEN. Speed, precision, authenticity from the heart and soul. It defines his original blues!
@wiep1978 I dunno. I'm an old Hammond player. But all you guitar players out there, isn't there a thing called "open" tuning. Might this be a tune played in such a tuning?
the name who always come up when who is the best guitar player ever is Jimi, it should be Johnny. think people always wanna salute the dead one, they are legends bla bla bla,. Both SRV and Hendrix was good but Johnny is god.
hahaha george thorogood sucks. don't get me wrong he can play his guitar well but he still sucks. johnny winters the king of texas blues and rock 'n roll guitar.
Thanks for that rockinredneck57, I thought Winter hailed from Texas . I still think he is the King of Texas Blues Guitar and more original sounding than his contemporaries especially with respect to his work in the 70's when a lot of it was high energy bluesy rock .
Vaughn was good but Johnny is awesome. Alot of people were introduced to a mean blues guitar by Stevie but Winter is much better. Some of his best stuff is with Muddy Waters live and in studio. Johnny has never been about anything but the music and he never had the commercial success that Stevie had. Pick up Muddy Waters King Bee and I guarantee you will play it more than any SRV discs that you own.
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@ewingluv I own every Muddy Waters studio song, alot of Johnny Winter and all of SRV. I will honestly tell you while Johnny and Muddy are fantastic. Nobody and I mean it is physically impossible to play like SRV. It is probably easier to create a perpetual motion machine. I seen people play like Winter, Waters, Hendrix, and all them but never SRV. Have you heard SRV do Life Without You live after he sobered up. I am 100% sure that is the greatest guitar piece I have heard...ever.But all are good
It is not easier to play like like Johnny, not at his peak anyway, not at all, though it is arguably more desirable. I know 2 guys personally who can play virtually identical to Stevie. Funny one of them is from Ewing and also loves Johnny. Paul, is that you, Ewingluv or do you know Paul Nelson? Paul sure does play like Stevie when he wants .
@ewingluv Haha you must be kidding. Stevie absolutely tears this guy to shreds. Absolutely no disrespect to John Winter. Don't believe me watch texas flood live at El mocambo
@ewingluv Or listen to Hard Again with Muddy or Muddy Mississippi Waters Live. I've seen Johhny in St Louis 4 times in the last 6 years - best $20.00 I ever spent. May not play as fast but Blues is from the Heart and Soul...
Why bother comparing? They were two different guitarist and I can't help but sense some attempt to stomp on Stevie here. They're both great guitarist and I wouldn't dare compare the two. That's like trying to compare Beatles and Stones, you don't because they weren't the same, even if they were identical. Just enjoy the music and leave the talk like this out of it.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan left a bigger mark in the world of blues and rock and roll in his short career than Johnny Winter in his 40 years career. Just look at what Stevie accomplished, his award, worldwide acclaim, his records, his playing in some of the best and biggest places on the planet, playing with some of the greatest musicians ever, his impact on musicians worldwide is big and will only conitinue to grow. Johnny is great, but Stevie is much more important to the world of music.
Wow, I don't think so but you can't have it both ways. Let's say maybe SRV left a bigger mark than JW, and that is a big maybe, it was not nearly the mark left by Eric Clapton or or even Led Zepplin's Jimmy Page . You still think SRV is better, right? No disrespect to SRV, He is really good but better? Not.
Who left the bigger mark ? Winter of course! He was headlining playing to 10,000 seat crowds in the early 70's. He is the greatest blues guitarist ever known to the public. Yeah Clapton & Page did leave a huge mark. Eric brought more people to the blues than anyone in history. Both are great, still Johnny is the most prolific at blues .
t depends on styles. Winter is more traditional blues and Stevie pulled from several and made his own kind of blues. Johnny doesn't play like Stevie and neither does Clapton or Page.
None of the above can hold a candle to Johnny Hiland though.
Stevie used different tones and phrasing to make songs his own. Maybe not better, but maybe better on some. it's up to an individuals taste as to who is better.
I think Johnny defined Texas Blues if it can be called such as a legitimate sub-genre. Albert Freddie King, Albert Collins were playing blues in Texas but they were playing Chicago Blues style really and some others were more Delta style. Johnny gets into this Delta meets Chicago thing and fuses both with some crazed otherworldly elements. He is truly a fluke of the universe in the best way. KING of TEXAS BLUES GUITAR ! Without question. Ya gotta love him.
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Defined? Stop kiding yourself. Stevie Ray Vaughan defined Texas blues in the late 1970's and 1980's. Johnny was great in his prime along with Duane Allman and Rory Gallagher but he could never match Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie is a world class guitar god, a legend, a master, trully the king of Texas blues guitar, by far the most important and most influential blues guitar player that ever came from Texas. His impact on the world of blues and rock music will live on forever!
I see you've been busy making smoke while I've been gigging. Yes of course Johnny defined Texas Blues guitar as we know it . SRV added his bit but no more than ZZ Tops great Billy Gibbons who would gladly tell you about it as industry people around Dallas HAVE told ME about it , which I think you know already but have an axe to grind. Your 1500 word dissertation to the contrary isn't convincing. The fact remains Great majority of pro players I know even in Texas agree : Johnny is the Leader.
Heh heh, Thanks Wick but Muddy Waters is not even associated Texas at all. He IS however considered the Father of Chicago Blues so you have punctuated my point with a BIG proverbial exclamation point . Born in Mississippi and his only real connection to Texas is that Johnny Winter assisted him with his early '70s comeback. Lightin' Hopkins surely a Texan played a mostly Delta slightly blues Style though often on electric regardless of him being from Texas. BTW Johnny eclipses...the clone.
Since when do you have to be from Texas to play the Texas Blues. Thats like sayin you have to be from Chicago to play Chicago blues, and Mississippi for Mississippi Delta. And if anything George Thorogood is just as mean maybe meaner than Winter. Thorogood is from Delaware. And if Hopkins and Waters dont define Texas Blues, then T-Bone Walker did. Just because they have an older style and guitar was not nearly as advanced as it was in the 70s does not mean it was not Texas Blues. Walker was mean
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Fuck off. So what, he is dead and I shouldn't listen to him... Hahaha... You are really some crazy sonof a bitch. SRV is dead, but he made an impact on blues, rock and roll, on guitar players, generally music that not many people can say for theirselfs. He is the greatest blues guitar player ever. What have you made from "your life" you moron? Fuck off and go to a fuckin doctor you freak!
Your elementary school teached you cool 3 and 4 letter words: bitch, SRV & f**k. Wow! And you use 'em all over the internet! Cool!! SRV will be forgotten soon because Johnny outplayed him the past 50 years and John Mayer will in the future. SRV did his thing allright, but he ain't historically significant. JW is!
Your ignorance really has reached a new high ...John Mayer better than Vaughan.
If true to your point Winter was playing long before SRV knew he could than Mayer was NOT even born before Vaughan was already the young Texas baddass of the Blues circuit. BTW Mayer might play blues but he is NOT a staple of the genre like JW and yes SRV. Another thing Shannon is secondhand and second rate to anybody dumbass!!
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As I said, a great guitar player Johnny is and a nice version this is, but Stevie is simply a lot better, he is by far the best white blues guitar player and considered by many the greatest guitar player after Jimi Hendrix.
Now Johnny and Jimi INFLUENCED each other but thank god that Johnny does his own version instead of getting in as many Jimi licks as he can. Come on grga your shtick gets deep sixed even on SRV videos. Now lets see YOU play. PLAY... you know : as in guitar VIDEO. I did it for you. Dedicated. Come on girl ...Scared?
He always hurls insults when he know he's been beaten. It was in part due to my pointing out that Johnny is KING of TEXAS BLUES GUITAR ( Billy Gibbons close behind) that the gargler challenged me with: If I knew so much I should put up a video of my playing. . You know essentially a Put Up Or Shut Up. I did: I Put Up. I assume the little Croation "plays" so let's hear him now right? Ah Hah, hah, hahahaha. RIGHT!
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Wow, what a great version from Johnny, great, but I gotta say Stevie Ray Vaughan did it a lot better, a lot. It can't compare to the mindblowing version of Stevie Ray, he was after all better than Johnny.
I see you're a big Stevie Ray fan. Stevie Ray would never say such a thing as you say.
Fact is that Stevie Ray is one of them new school cats, this here is Johnny Winter. He's one of the old dudes. Yall just don't know ANYTHING about the blues.
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Fact is that Stevie was not a new school cat, just cause he became famous in the 80's doesn't mean he started playing in the 80's, he started playing in hotels, bars and various other places and even recording with his first bands he had a couple of years after Johnny became famous, so yeah Johnny came first, but it isn't that Stevie was such a new cat. Also Johnny is not even close to Stevie. It is Stevie who is hailed as the greatest blues guitar player and the best after Hendrix, so fuck off!
Man, you really don't know what y'r talkin'bout. Johnny is from 1944, he was already around playing the delta when SRV wasn't even aware he had musical talent. You should do your homework better. Johnny is the one that actually PLAYED with Jimi, they were friends, he was on his funeral. JH, the guy SRV could only imitate. Johnny was the one who dragged Muddy out of the dirt and put him back on his feet. SRV even had to use a secondhand Johnny Winter bassplayer. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!
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Johnny came on the scene in the late 1960's and Stevie came in the begging of the 1970's so the difference ain't that big. Johnny played with Jimi several times, but were they friends? Definetely not, and he certainly wasn't on Jimi's funeral. Johnny digged Muddy from the dirt? Yep, but Stevie did more for the blues and black people than Johnny could ever dream of. BTW. Also, Tommy Shannon is a first class bass player, who cares that he was with Johnny before Stevie came in. He still rocks!
I spoke to Johnny on his birthday and he sounded great. He's also playing like the baddest mofo on Earth again! See him if you don't believe me. Johnny got his groove back!
Hi Steve,thanks.I shall see him of course here in Europe somewhere in May-June 2009 probably in Germany.Have met and talked him 3 times in Europe in 2008.He is the greatest on Earth.
Hi Andras - Have a great time seeing Johnny and please tell him I said hi. He's the best of the best and he's playing like a demon again! Damn, I gotta wait until the Summer to see him again, but it'll be worth the wait!
@Bopalena and now he is off methadone. His manager slowly weaned him down in his dosage without him knowing the past 3 years and now apparently he is off it completely now.
Happy 65th to Johnny today, 2-23-09 Monday! - His last at 100% power (CD) in my opinion was '91's Hey, Where's Your Brother? "91's Let Me In really smoked too!
So I'll pull out all his Vinyl today and all the CD's. I played (on bass)and sang Life is Hard, Rain, and Mother Earth Blues in my last band.
Thanks! Great!!! This is one of the "last" Johnny Winter shows. JW was in top form during this period with Compton and Ganz. Could you please post more from this show?
Forget about about the other posers like Clapton..this guy ALWAYS was better and KNOWS the REAL Blues. Johnny is the closest thing to Robert Johnson ever.(Muddy Waters agreed with this)
Can anyone out there post John Dawson Winter III song that goes "...keep on rockin' n rollin' Neva settle down...keep ma records playin all dah time..".Really miss that 1.
WIKI: "The Sky Is Crying" is a song that has become a blues standard The song was written and recorded by Elmore James in 1959. One of his most durable compositions,"The Sky Is Crying" was an R&B hit and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists."The Sky Is Crying" is an impromptu song inspired by a Chicago downpour during the recording session, it features James' SLIDE GUITAR WORK and vocals Listed as Elmo James and His Broomdusters it reached #15 in the Billboard R&B chart in 1960,
dadzbluz 2 weeks ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Johnny Winter
@dadzbluz great clarification,thank you.
xkecoupe 2 weeks ago
its the blues music... you can't tell which one is better than any other.. just shut up, enjoy
andreasbluesify 2 months ago
Blues, guitar...
iceybleu 2 months ago
They just keep gettin' better...huichol53........
huichol53 4 months ago
holy shit he's got the blues!!
jts308 4 months ago
good slide player too bad slide doesnt count as actual guitar johnnys good but dont discrace SRV with slide on his track
bigdaddyclarence 7 months ago
@bigdaddyclarence that the dumbest comment about music ive ever read. i dont know if that matters to you but it is.
slowhand19 5 months ago
@slowhand19 I agree what a dumb thing to say, music, and the blues especially, has always been about putting your own spin on a tune. They are both superb guitarists and I certainly could not pick between the two lol.
lowew79 5 months ago
Johnny lived past his prime. Guys that die in their prime are remembered differently. You never got to see them in their older years with the edge and quickness off their playing and performing in the small venues. I have never seen anyone duplicate a Johnny Winter in his prime. Still waiting after 40 years.
tb0432 7 months ago
@tb0432 Yeah, I remember his prime days. He's still a great voice and good guitarist, but he's slowed down an awful lot in recent years. Saw and met him at the Zephyr Club in Salt Lake City in '89 or so, and he was still kickin'. Next time I saw him was at the Doheny Blues Festival in 2000 or 2001. Edgar was there as well, and he was a really cool guy. Johnny seemed to be almost paranoid. I talked with Edgar about it, but I'm not giving up the details. I love Johnny, and I love Edgar.
Dogheadj 3 months ago
I'm not so much a blues musician but Johnny Winter still inspires me. His leads still sends shivers up my spine.
chariotdrvr14 9 months ago
i dont think even gary moore could touch johnny
emanhacker 9 months ago
With over fifty years of professional performance to his credit there is no one anywhere that could hold up in a head to head competition with The Man himself. Think of the musicianship in different terms. Each person who tries to play the standards of the "Blues" can bring something a little different to the picture. That's why it is so timeless in it's imagination. The Great Howlin' Wolf wrote and performed Wang Dang Doodle, but if you hear Koko Taylor's recording you'll see what I mean.
flapjackhank 9 months ago
What do they feed those boys down in Texas?!
I'm gonna pump my kids full of whatever it is.
ontariobuds 11 months ago
Can't compare anyone to Johnny Winter. He's in a class all by himself. Don't even try. Stevie was great and was also in a class all his own.
astrachal 1 year ago
Can't compare anyone to Johnny Winter. He's in a class all by himself. Don't even try.
astrachal 1 year ago
g modal?, it doesn't matter anyway 'cause only he can play with this feel, texas via chicago, maybe duane, but he sings as well as he plays which is rarer than albino blues geniuses
wellspout 1 year ago
The greatest blues slide-guitar ever!!
53bluzer 1 year ago
Awesome!!! Thanks for the share:)
Grandma Mary
Fr3derick 1 year ago
Go Johnny, go! Like the song goes:"Still alive and well". Thank you, my friend, for this awesome share. Happiness and peace, always, ~ Jerry
TheGuitarjerry1126 1 year ago
I bought "Second Winter" at a drugstore when I was 15 (40 yrs or so back :o). It blew my mind and totally changed my musical direction.
jmylestoones 1 year ago
All anybody has to do is find a copy of his first "white album" on Sonobeat records sold at Phils Record shop in limited numbers. I know because I bought two when I was going to college in Texas at the time in 1968. It is a tour de force like none other. Delta blues, 12 string, Dobro with a slide,unameit...every tune just sears right through you and takes every bit of your attention. IT COMMANDS YOU TO LISTEN. Speed, precision, authenticity from the heart and soul. It defines his original blues!
JustaRegularPatriot 1 year ago
@JustaRegularPatriot what tuning is he playing in? help me out!
wiep1978 1 year ago
@wiep1978 I dunno. I'm an old Hammond player. But all you guitar players out there, isn't there a thing called "open" tuning. Might this be a tune played in such a tuning?
JustaRegularPatriot 1 year ago
@wiep1978 Try D . It looks like it to me. That's where Elmore playede it and Johnny says he learned a lot from him.
bluesrock67 1 year ago
@JustaRegularPatriot that's the problem, what tuning to play in!!
wiep1978 1 year ago
Reverse Firebid.
witchman1 1 year ago
where the words for dis?
sllusus 1 year ago
LIFE IS SO HARD TO TRAVEL WHEN YOU ARE A GUITAR PLAYER AND ALL YOUR STRINGS ARE BROKEN
IT IS REALLY HARD WHEN THEY STEEL WORDS THAT YOU HAVE SPOKEN.
VERY HARD TO MOVE ON IN YOUR CHRSLERS & FORDS...
WHEN THE WORLD HAS STOLEN ALL OF YOUR CHORDS..........THINGS ARE TUFF DRIVIN AROUND IN CHRSLERS AND FORDS
ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HAVE ROBBED ALL OF YOUR ENGINES CHORDS
woodenships747 1 year ago
I bet he was jamming and this was the lyric that occurred to him xD
StarfireEKS 1 year ago
the name who always come up when who is the best guitar player ever is Jimi, it should be Johnny. think people always wanna salute the dead one, they are legends bla bla bla,. Both SRV and Hendrix was good but Johnny is god.
lazer70 1 year ago
What kinda guitar is he playing? Looks fucking awesome.
handyrotc 1 year ago
@handyrotc Gibson Firebird
markster3 1 year ago
@markster3 Thank ya
handyrotc 1 year ago
@handyrotc - It's a '64 Gibson Firebird and he still plays it for slide.
Bopalena 1 year ago
Johnny's th man!!!!
warhoops 1 year ago
Someone should give this guy some protein
WTHWTFWTB 1 year ago
The first concert I ever saw was Johnny. I guess I was just lucky.
JGPorcello 1 year ago
awesome.
and yeah Clapton is awesome.
and Page is too, in more of a rock way.
But why isn't anybody mentioning Duane????
Listen again to Statesboro blues...
mastadon5448 1 year ago
Johnny Winter really takes his blues personally.
Yoganao 1 year ago
hahaha george thorogood sucks. don't get me wrong he can play his guitar well but he still sucks. johnny winters the king of texas blues and rock 'n roll guitar.
mikexlong 2 years ago 4
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Hahaha ... exactly except I wouldn't give Thorogood that much. But YEAH Johnny Winter IS the King of Texas Blues and Rock 'n Roll Guitar.
Geepsterr 2 years ago 4
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rawzone1 2 years ago
Good points but Johnny chose to make his home base in Texas as a young man .
Geepsterr 2 years ago 4
The Sky Is Cryin' is an Elmore James tune and JW is from Beaumont, TX
hate to burst your bubble
rockinredneck57 2 years ago 3
Thanks for that rockinredneck57, I thought Winter hailed from Texas . I still think he is the King of Texas Blues Guitar and more original sounding than his contemporaries especially with respect to his work in the 70's when a lot of it was high energy bluesy rock .
Geepsterr 2 years ago 2
Vaughn was good but Johnny is awesome. Alot of people were introduced to a mean blues guitar by Stevie but Winter is much better. Some of his best stuff is with Muddy Waters live and in studio. Johnny has never been about anything but the music and he never had the commercial success that Stevie had. Pick up Muddy Waters King Bee and I guarantee you will play it more than any SRV discs that you own.
ewingluv 2 years ago 19
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@ewingluv I own every Muddy Waters studio song, alot of Johnny Winter and all of SRV. I will honestly tell you while Johnny and Muddy are fantastic. Nobody and I mean it is physically impossible to play like SRV. It is probably easier to create a perpetual motion machine. I seen people play like Winter, Waters, Hendrix, and all them but never SRV. Have you heard SRV do Life Without You live after he sobered up. I am 100% sure that is the greatest guitar piece I have heard...ever.But all are good
wick2107 2 years ago
It is not easier to play like like Johnny, not at his peak anyway, not at all, though it is arguably more desirable. I know 2 guys personally who can play virtually identical to Stevie. Funny one of them is from Ewing and also loves Johnny. Paul, is that you, Ewingluv or do you know Paul Nelson? Paul sure does play like Stevie when he wants .
Geepsterr 2 years ago 10
@ewingluv i half agree about commercial sucess but please.....srv is on top of the mountain
boomboxbadboy1 1 year ago
@ewingluv I think Stevie Ray is quite overrated Duane Allman was also so much better than Stevie in my opinion.
DavidKinner 1 year ago
@ewingluv Haha you must be kidding. Stevie absolutely tears this guy to shreds. Absolutely no disrespect to John Winter. Don't believe me watch texas flood live at El mocambo
DogBoi1692 1 year ago
@ewingluv Hard Again is my favorite Muddy album, and my favorite Johnny Winter album. They were a great team!
dafunk39 11 months ago
@ewingluv Or listen to Hard Again with Muddy or Muddy Mississippi Waters Live. I've seen Johhny in St Louis 4 times in the last 6 years - best $20.00 I ever spent. May not play as fast but Blues is from the Heart and Soul...
mrp356b 5 months ago
@ewingluv
Why bother comparing? They were two different guitarist and I can't help but sense some attempt to stomp on Stevie here. They're both great guitarist and I wouldn't dare compare the two. That's like trying to compare Beatles and Stones, you don't because they weren't the same, even if they were identical. Just enjoy the music and leave the talk like this out of it.
ledgo22 3 months ago
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Stevie Ray Vaughan left a bigger mark in the world of blues and rock and roll in his short career than Johnny Winter in his 40 years career. Just look at what Stevie accomplished, his award, worldwide acclaim, his records, his playing in some of the best and biggest places on the planet, playing with some of the greatest musicians ever, his impact on musicians worldwide is big and will only conitinue to grow. Johnny is great, but Stevie is much more important to the world of music.
grga888 2 years ago
Wow, I don't think so but you can't have it both ways. Let's say maybe SRV left a bigger mark than JW, and that is a big maybe, it was not nearly the mark left by Eric Clapton or or even Led Zepplin's Jimmy Page . You still think SRV is better, right? No disrespect to SRV, He is really good but better? Not.
MsGyselle 2 years ago 7
Who left the bigger mark ? Winter of course! He was headlining playing to 10,000 seat crowds in the early 70's. He is the greatest blues guitarist ever known to the public. Yeah Clapton & Page did leave a huge mark. Eric brought more people to the blues than anyone in history. Both are great, still Johnny is the most prolific at blues .
Geepsterr 2 years ago 5
t depends on styles. Winter is more traditional blues and Stevie pulled from several and made his own kind of blues. Johnny doesn't play like Stevie and neither does Clapton or Page.
None of the above can hold a candle to Johnny Hiland though.
Stevie used different tones and phrasing to make songs his own. Maybe not better, but maybe better on some. it's up to an individuals taste as to who is better.
rockinredneck57 2 years ago
I think Johnny defined Texas Blues if it can be called such as a legitimate sub-genre. Albert Freddie King, Albert Collins were playing blues in Texas but they were playing Chicago Blues style really and some others were more Delta style. Johnny gets into this Delta meets Chicago thing and fuses both with some crazed otherworldly elements. He is truly a fluke of the universe in the best way. KING of TEXAS BLUES GUITAR ! Without question. Ya gotta love him.
Geepsterr 2 years ago 8
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Defined? Stop kiding yourself. Stevie Ray Vaughan defined Texas blues in the late 1970's and 1980's. Johnny was great in his prime along with Duane Allman and Rory Gallagher but he could never match Stevie Ray Vaughan. Stevie is a world class guitar god, a legend, a master, trully the king of Texas blues guitar, by far the most important and most influential blues guitar player that ever came from Texas. His impact on the world of blues and rock music will live on forever!
grga888 2 years ago
I see you've been busy making smoke while I've been gigging. Yes of course Johnny defined Texas Blues guitar as we know it . SRV added his bit but no more than ZZ Tops great Billy Gibbons who would gladly tell you about it as industry people around Dallas HAVE told ME about it , which I think you know already but have an axe to grind. Your 1500 word dissertation to the contrary isn't convincing. The fact remains Great majority of pro players I know even in Texas agree : Johnny is the Leader.
Geepsterr 2 years ago 6
@Geepsterr Muddy Waters defined Texas Blues. Tons of other Texas Blues musicians were about in the 40s including Lightnin Hopkins who is unbelievable
wick2107 2 years ago
Heh heh, Thanks Wick but Muddy Waters is not even associated Texas at all. He IS however considered the Father of Chicago Blues so you have punctuated my point with a BIG proverbial exclamation point . Born in Mississippi and his only real connection to Texas is that Johnny Winter assisted him with his early '70s comeback. Lightin' Hopkins surely a Texan played a mostly Delta slightly blues Style though often on electric regardless of him being from Texas. BTW Johnny eclipses...the clone.
Geepsterr 2 years ago 6
Since when do you have to be from Texas to play the Texas Blues. Thats like sayin you have to be from Chicago to play Chicago blues, and Mississippi for Mississippi Delta. And if anything George Thorogood is just as mean maybe meaner than Winter. Thorogood is from Delaware. And if Hopkins and Waters dont define Texas Blues, then T-Bone Walker did. Just because they have an older style and guitar was not nearly as advanced as it was in the 70s does not mean it was not Texas Blues. Walker was mean
wick2107 2 years ago
"Thorogood " you say ! Okay it's all clear, point made and position evident.
Geepsterr 2 years ago 6
I don't think JW is a master he must be a wizard..thats right Guitar wizard.
StarfireEKS 2 years ago 3
Two different versions. Two different souls. One common denominator, TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheerleaderisme 2 years ago
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good version, but srv version is better "for me" and i have a life and i know srv is dead!
scoured62 2 years ago
grga888 get a life man. SRV is dead.
My64Firebird 2 years ago 3
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Fuck off. So what, he is dead and I shouldn't listen to him... Hahaha... You are really some crazy sonof a bitch. SRV is dead, but he made an impact on blues, rock and roll, on guitar players, generally music that not many people can say for theirselfs. He is the greatest blues guitar player ever. What have you made from "your life" you moron? Fuck off and go to a fuckin doctor you freak!
grga888 2 years ago
Your elementary school teached you cool 3 and 4 letter words: bitch, SRV & f**k. Wow! And you use 'em all over the internet! Cool!! SRV will be forgotten soon because Johnny outplayed him the past 50 years and John Mayer will in the future. SRV did his thing allright, but he ain't historically significant. JW is!
My64Firebird 2 years ago 3
Your ignorance really has reached a new high ...John Mayer better than Vaughan.
If true to your point Winter was playing long before SRV knew he could than Mayer was NOT even born before Vaughan was already the young Texas baddass of the Blues circuit. BTW Mayer might play blues but he is NOT a staple of the genre like JW and yes SRV. Another thing Shannon is secondhand and second rate to anybody dumbass!!
ONENIGGER2ANOTHER 2 years ago 2
You're welcome!
My64Firebird 2 years ago
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As I said, a great guitar player Johnny is and a nice version this is, but Stevie is simply a lot better, he is by far the best white blues guitar player and considered by many the greatest guitar player after Jimi Hendrix.
grga888 2 years ago
Now Johnny and Jimi INFLUENCED each other but thank god that Johnny does his own version instead of getting in as many Jimi licks as he can. Come on grga your shtick gets deep sixed even on SRV videos. Now lets see YOU play. PLAY... you know : as in guitar VIDEO. I did it for you. Dedicated. Come on girl ...Scared?
Geepsterr 2 years ago 6
Hahahahaahahahahhaahaha!!!!! Play??
Aw, come on!
My64Firebird 2 years ago 2
He always hurls insults when he know he's been beaten. It was in part due to my pointing out that Johnny is KING of TEXAS BLUES GUITAR ( Billy Gibbons close behind) that the gargler challenged me with: If I knew so much I should put up a video of my playing. . You know essentially a Put Up Or Shut Up. I did: I Put Up. I assume the little Croation "plays" so let's hear him now right? Ah Hah, hah, hahahaha. RIGHT!
Geepsterr 2 years ago 6
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Wow, what a great version from Johnny, great, but I gotta say Stevie Ray Vaughan did it a lot better, a lot. It can't compare to the mindblowing version of Stevie Ray, he was after all better than Johnny.
grga888 2 years ago
I see you're a big Stevie Ray fan. Stevie Ray would never say such a thing as you say.
Fact is that Stevie Ray is one of them new school cats, this here is Johnny Winter. He's one of the old dudes. Yall just don't know ANYTHING about the blues.
DuncanDonuts3 2 years ago 7
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Fact is that Stevie was not a new school cat, just cause he became famous in the 80's doesn't mean he started playing in the 80's, he started playing in hotels, bars and various other places and even recording with his first bands he had a couple of years after Johnny became famous, so yeah Johnny came first, but it isn't that Stevie was such a new cat. Also Johnny is not even close to Stevie. It is Stevie who is hailed as the greatest blues guitar player and the best after Hendrix, so fuck off!
grga888 2 years ago
Man, you really don't know what y'r talkin'bout. Johnny is from 1944, he was already around playing the delta when SRV wasn't even aware he had musical talent. You should do your homework better. Johnny is the one that actually PLAYED with Jimi, they were friends, he was on his funeral. JH, the guy SRV could only imitate. Johnny was the one who dragged Muddy out of the dirt and put him back on his feet. SRV even had to use a secondhand Johnny Winter bassplayer. Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!
My64Firebird 2 years ago 7
Damn right! Excellent post, my friend!
Bopalena 2 years ago
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Johnny came on the scene in the late 1960's and Stevie came in the begging of the 1970's so the difference ain't that big. Johnny played with Jimi several times, but were they friends? Definetely not, and he certainly wasn't on Jimi's funeral. Johnny digged Muddy from the dirt? Yep, but Stevie did more for the blues and black people than Johnny could ever dream of. BTW. Also, Tommy Shannon is a first class bass player, who cares that he was with Johnny before Stevie came in. He still rocks!
grga888 2 years ago
@grga888 Stevie came in 83 ended in 90, Johnny started in the late 60s and still performs, 4 decades vs less than one is a HUGE DIFFERENCE.
wick2107 2 years ago
Que bestia! translation: what a beast! My man JW getting stupid! the teacher is on the stage....
conradbkk 2 years ago 2
i'm sure he wasen't thinking gosh i better play this better than stevie...
ricktherezman 2 years ago 4
Why the fuss of who's version is better? It was originaly done by Elmore James, & he played slide. Another good version on youtube is by Roy Rogers.
Behutet93 2 years ago 2
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It's crying ok, but nothing like when Stevie would play this song. He did it a lot better than what Johnny did.
grga888 2 years ago
my god!
klavierabend 2 years ago 2
he plays with so much soul! it blows me away
somehelpfrommyfriend 2 years ago 3
what a great master guitar player,
65 and still rocking!!
i dont think johnny winter or edgar winter
were appreciated as they should have been for be so very talented.
sweetytwome2 2 years ago 6
Just love it. I hope he will come to Sweden soon.
roaring3 2 years ago
jag också
marcusmalmros 2 years ago
The very best of health Johnny,no one may ever sound the same,that includes you Mr Trucks,again thank you XKE Coupe
bobdownunder1 2 years ago
I spoke to Johnny on his birthday and he sounded great. He's also playing like the baddest mofo on Earth again! See him if you don't believe me. Johnny got his groove back!
Bopalena 3 years ago 6
Hi Steve,thanks.I shall see him of course here in Europe somewhere in May-June 2009 probably in Germany.Have met and talked him 3 times in Europe in 2008.He is the greatest on Earth.
best regards:Andras
xkecoupe 3 years ago 2
Hi Andras - Have a great time seeing Johnny and please tell him I said hi. He's the best of the best and he's playing like a demon again! Damn, I gotta wait until the Summer to see him again, but it'll be worth the wait!
Bopalena 3 years ago
@Bopalena and now he is off methadone. His manager slowly weaned him down in his dosage without him knowing the past 3 years and now apparently he is off it completely now.
ontariobuds 8 months ago
Happy 65th to Johnny today, 2-23-09 Monday! - His last at 100% power (CD) in my opinion was '91's Hey, Where's Your Brother? "91's Let Me In really smoked too!
So I'll pull out all his Vinyl today and all the CD's. I played (on bass)and sang Life is Hard, Rain, and Mother Earth Blues in my last band.
I love all his ballads too!
bassandguitarguy 3 years ago 3
Thanks! Great!!! This is one of the "last" Johnny Winter shows. JW was in top form during this period with Compton and Ganz. Could you please post more from this show?
jopeyman 3 years ago
Johnny, we love you.
Håkan Nilsson Ljusne Sweden
fenderbenderkingkong 3 years ago 3
pacquaman
I don't have that vid as of yet.the minute
I get it, you'll see it. until then- if any
one else has it- please,please post it!
thanx and happy new year.
Goupul7 3 years ago
does anyone have the live "it's my own fault"
by johnny winter and... I went without
lunch in jr. high for a week so I could buy
that L.p
beckeyes123 3 years ago 3
I am looking for that vidio also. Please let me know when you get it. Thanks a Johnny winter fan for 30 years.He is the man!!!
PACQUAMAN 3 years ago 4
Ok.any chance putting it on the tube? That'll be great.Thanks.
bluesol59 3 years ago
Forget about about the other posers like Clapton..this guy ALWAYS was better and KNOWS the REAL Blues. Johnny is the closest thing to Robert Johnson ever.(Muddy Waters agreed with this)
taildragger51 3 years ago 3
Can anyone out there post John Dawson Winter III song that goes "...keep on rockin' n rollin' Neva settle down...keep ma records playin all dah time..".Really miss that 1.
bluesol59 3 years ago
bluesol59; "Love Song To Me"...i think it's called. Yeah, a great tune that brings back some fond memories for me.
taildragger51 3 years ago
Is this from the the Grafitti Club? (I know I saw Johnny play there around this time)
thaibites 3 years ago
blues"brother"power thanks
badboyboogie20080212 3 years ago
Thanks for the share BP!
shantidw 3 years ago
Great to watch a slide master firing away!
eddiegrey 3 years ago 2
thanks bp this is fantastic
mizzissippiblues 3 years ago
Thanks to bluespower for the send.Great.
fendermac 3 years ago 2
Regards..
Bluespower !
csason 3 years ago
nobody plays slide like JW. cool stuff man!!
sixstringintexas 3 years ago 4
oh yeah!!mr bluespower sent this one to me as well,good to see he's still in the business of spreading the word
jimblues21 3 years ago
Johnny Winter is one of my all time favourites and thanks for posting this one up its great!!!
jimblues21 3 years ago
Johnny Winter is the greatest slide guitarist
of all times.Thanks(bluespower sent me)
53blues 3 years ago 2
jw at his best!!!!
bluespower 3 years ago 4
Thats another piece of art from Johnny Winter.... thanks a lot for posting this ykecoupe!
slideguitarblues 3 years ago 2
Thanks, xkecoupe! Awesome! ;D
phunnie99 3 years ago 2