![]() King’s Blues Club in New York City, Zito pitched in on “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” which Johnny released in 1971 on Live Johnny Winter And. The Johnny guitar parts (as though anyone could fill them -Townsend recoiling in 1997 when I told him Clapton couldn’t buckle Johnny’s guitar strap) fell to fellow Beaumont native Mike Zito.Īt Winter’s 70th birthday bash at B.B. Most of the dates were ones Johnny was already scheduled to play when he was found dead in his Zurich hotel room on Last December, at Buddy Guy’s Legends nightclub on South Wabash in the city of Augie March, Johnny’s manager (and second guitarist) Paul Nelson and younger brother Edgar staged their last tribute to Johnny. (I have also paid respects to the grave of Saroyan in Fresno, California.) Vanity, said William Saroyan, is an artist’s courage and fans-be they partisans or pilgrims-give life to that courage. Which, as someone who has archived notes left on the graves of Jack Kerouac (Lowell, Massachusetts) and Sherwood Anderson (Marion, Va.), I find disappointing. “They didn’t want a lot of pilgrims coming by.” “The family kept it very quiet, people from posting photos of the ceremony,” said Shurman. Shurman was one of the few people invited to private funeral services for Winter last July at Union Cemetery in Easton, Connecticut. ![]() There was so much for us to discuss, but as always (whether talking to Frank Zappa or Pete Townsend), I wanted to talk about Johnny. He once told me that women were wearing their skirts so short they were showing two faces to the world.” “His favorite thing was telling people how to live. “Wolf (Chester Burnett, 1910–1976) used to drive me home from his gigs,” remembered Shurman, 65. Shurman -a self-taught music scholar, documentarian and Class of 2014 inductee into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame -was wearing a straw hat and a Howlin’ Wolf t-shirt. “In Johnny’s voice I could hear the manifestation of my essence …” – Leo Sacks, saved by musicĬHICAGO : A year and a day after the death of Johnny Winter in Switzerland, I had lunch in Chicago with Dick Shurman, a friend of the Texas bluesman who produced Winter’s 1992 album, Hey, Where’s Your Brother? Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() )
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