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The Winter brothers, Johnny and Edgar, were born in the mid-1940s in Beaumont, Texas, hometown of The Big Bopper and Blind Willie Johnson, and both attended special education classes in high school. Edgar, a musical child prodigy, mastered a plethora of instruments, while Johnny—the elder brother by two years—focused on the guitar, mandolin, and harmonica.
Johnny recorded his first single at 15, and released his first LP in 1968, after Columbia Record execs caught the Fillmore East gig that same year at which Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper invited Winter on stage to jam. Within a year he was playing Woodstock, and recording on and off with brother Edgar, and by 1970 he was incorporating rock into his blues. He was sidetracked for several years by a bad heroin habit, but cleaned up his act just in time to record 1973’s "Still Alive and Well".
[–] 18324842? [S] ago (edited ago)
Beaumont is near Port Arthur where Janis Joplin was from, there's a little museum there with her stuff. Been to both Beaumont and Port Arthur but not to the museum. Gulf Coast refinery towns.
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Yes, Texas has been home to many great artists. Blues, Country, and Rock.