It turned into two shows, and then 25 shows, and now it’s a huge thing. King’s and Johnny and I played in that first one. “I wanted to turn this into the same kind of thing as the Experience Hendrix Tour, which started as a birthday party at B.B. Lead by bandleader, guitarist and producer Paul Nelson, The Johnny Winter All Star Band comes to Barrie, ON on March 18 for a show at Violet’s Venue, 52 Morrow Rd. The band that had backed him on that tour has continued on, performing Winter’s songs around the world to adoring multitudes. Unfortunately, not all the damage to his health could be undone, and Winter died on July 16, 2014, two days after performing at a prestigious music festival in Switzerland. His touring schedule was almost as busy as it was in his late 1960s-early 1970s heyday, as he was being discovered by entirely new generations of music fans, and rediscovered by older fans who revelled in his return to form. His last two albums, 2011s Roots and Step Back, released in 2014, were tour de force expressions of a true creative craftsman who had returned to the top of his game. This state of affairs lasted throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, but over the last years of his life, with a new management team and some key people looking out for his personal welfare, Winter made an epic comeback as a songwriter, producer and performer. Ill-health brought on from years of overindulgence and drug abuse had left him a mere shell of his former incendiary awesomeness. There were a number of years where Johnny Winter was a forlorn and forgotten man within the music industry. Paul Nelson from the Johnny Winter All Star Band.
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