![]() It took me a long time to figure out that takin’ dope is not good for you.” He chuckles. “I had a good time and enjoyed drugs and drinking,” he says by phone from his Connecticut home, “but I overdid it. But by the time Johnny met his current manager, co-guitarist, producer and, in practical terms, savior Paul Nelson in 2004, Winter seemed like a shell of himself, appearing exhausted and occasionally out of tune onstage, revived only by the spirit of the blues that seemingly inhabits his bloodstream. Sure, there were some high-notch concerts and recordings along the way, like 1984’s Guitar Slinger and 1992’s Hey, Where’s Your Brother?-a nod to his pop-hit instrumentalist sibling Edgar Winter. ![]() And while he was able to kick that drug, he got hooked on methadone, which, along with alcohol abuse, put Winter on a long spiral that brought him to the bottom roughly a decade ago. ![]() By the early ’70s Winter had become a heroin addict. Winter prefers the string of discs he made in the late 1970s with blues groundbreaker Muddy Waters and Waters’ band, his own Nothin’ But the Blues, and the Grammy-winning trio Hard Again, I’m Ready, and King Bee that he produced for Waters.īut something was amiss in those glory days. “All I need to play well is a good strong snare beat and other musicians who don’t get in the way,” he says. Many think the four LPs Winter made with Derringer define his golden era, but Winter still complains that Derringer played too much and too loud. Those albums along with the Allman Brothers first titles cast the die for two-guitar blues-rock ensemble playing. Winter’s star continued to rise during those years, after Columbia Records persuaded him to form a new band with co-guitarist Rick Derringer that cut the influential Johnny Winter And and Still Alive and Well sets. “It all depends on where my voice is,” he says. He favors open D and G tunings, and sometimes A. “I use a Dunlop slide that’s snug on my finger, so I can fret with the slide and move faster and more exactly,” says Winter. By the end of 1969 he’d released his major-label debut, Johnny Winter, and the follow-up, Second Winter, and played Woodstock, laying out blueprints for the future of American blues-rock and even Southern rock.Īlthough Winter is currently enjoying a surprising late-career renaissance thanks to his recharged stage presence, a documentary film, and a spate of releases, it’s the images of him from 1969 to 1974 that are burned into the retina of rock history: rail thin and wrapped like a spider around the 1963 Gibson Firebird that still accompanies him onstage, wraith-like thanks to his albinism and long hair, literally attacking the strings. Nonetheless, it was the conflagrant intensity of Winter’s two-fingered picking, the bared-fang snarl of his tone, and the mix of sand and kerosene in his own voice that skyrocketed him from the Texas psychedelic club scene into the international music spotlight less than a year after he recorded his debut, The Progressive Blues Experiment, on the stage of Austin’s Vulcan Gas Company in 1968. The courses is addressed to people who can already play guitar and want to know and master acoustic blues in the right way.“Most people in Texas didn’t like black people because they were too dark, and they didn’t like me because I was too white.” Once you’ll have acquired all the techniques, learning to play the most famous acoustic blues songs will be so much easier. The courses target is to reveal all the secrets and tricks of the 12-bar blues.įollowing the lectures will be very easy as every exercise is presented with a central angle view at first and later right hand and left hand views will be shown together with the structures and diagrams for the accords moreover the exercises will be shown at different speeds and music sheets are synchronized with the lesson. will show you how to play the most important styles of acoustic blues guitar.īurnin’ Guitar will show you, in all its courses, how to play acoustic blues through several accompaniment techniques with pick but above all with fingerpicking with and without thumb pick. The Best Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons to learn how to play in the style of the greatest Bluesmen such as Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Son House and many others. Description How to Play I Can’t Be Satisfied ( Muddy Waters and Johnny Winter )īurninguitar show you how to play I Can’t Be Satisfied in Hard Again Version by Muddy Waters and Johnny WinterĪ great song of Acoustic Blues Slide Guitar
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