Johnny Winter, a rail-thin blues guitarist known for his scorching riffs, flowing white hair and gravelly, hard-times voice, died Wednesday in Switzerland at the end of a European tour. He was 70. His ...

For over 40 years, Johnny Winter has been a guitar hero without equal. Signing to Columbia records in 1969, Johnny immediately laid out the blueprint for his fresh take on classic blues a prime ...

Johnny Winter is truly the colorless man. Born legally blind and albino in the wake of the 1943 race riots in Beaumont, Texas, Winter had a sort of invisible green card to get in to black clubs like ...

Johnny Winter, the Texas blues icon, died in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday at the age of 70. The star guitarist—Rolling Stone named him one of the 100 best ever—was playing till the end, performing ...

GENEVA — Texas blues legend Johnny Winter emblazoned himself into the world’s consciousness with his tattooed arms churning out lightning-fast guitar riffs and his striking long white hair flowing ...

You couldn't get a much better blues baptism than Johnny Winter did. "I was about 17," Winter has recalled of his 1962 date with destiny and blues legend B.B. King at the Raven, a club in Beaumont, ...

HARTFORD — Nearly nine years after Johnny Winter’s death, a battle for control of the legendary blues guitarist’s music is being fought in court with allegations of theft and greed flying back and ...

Nearly nine years after Johnny Winter’s death, a battle for control of the legendary blues guitarist’s music is being fought in court with allegations of theft and greed flying back and forth. The ...