Johnny Winter Blues Star Is Dead at 70
Johnny Winter, the Texas blues icon, died in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday at the age of 70. The star guitaristRolling Stone named him one of the 100 best everwas playing till the end, performing his last gig in Austria on Saturday. Since his self-titled album was released in 1969, Winter has recorded and produced dozens of albums of classic rock and blues, including several with his childhood idol Muddy Winters. A biography on his Facebook page describes Winter as "the clear link between British blues rock and American Southern rock  la the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.", "His wife, family and bandmates are all saddened by the loss of their loved one and one of the world's finest guitarists," says a post on his page.