Raisin' Cain: The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter - Softcover

Mary Lou Sullivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0879309733 ISBN 13: 9780879309732

Publisher: Backbeat, 2010

Synopsis

Author Mary Lou Sullivan sat with Johnny Winter for hours of exclusive, no-holds-barred interviews, covering the guitar slinger's entire career. From toughing it out in Texas to his appearance at Woodstock, his affair with Janis Joplin, his stadium-filling tours, and binging on drugs and the temptations of the road before finally fulfilling his dream of becoming a 100-percent pure bluesman, resurrecting the career of Muddy Waters, and winning a Grammy Award for his effort, this is a raucous roller coaster of a true story.

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About the Author

Mary Lou Sullivan is an award winning author and music journalist whose 30-plus year career began at a dinner with Bruce Springsteen. She has written for dozens of publications from Classic Rock to Blues Revue, the Hartford Advocate, Connecticut Magazine, and Blues Magazine. Her biography of Johnny Winter earned the prestigious Keeping the Blues Alive Award in Literature from The Blues Foundation in Memphis and the 2011 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. A Connecticut Yankee who fell in love with Texas, she lives outside of Austin.

From the Back Cover

Author Mary Lou Sullivan sat with Johnny Winter for hours of exclusive, no-holds-barred interviews, covering the guitar slinger's entire career. From toughing it out in Texas to his appearance at Woodstock, his affair with Janis Joplin, his stadium-filling tours, and washing out on drugs and the temptations of the road before finally fulfilling his dream of becoming a 100-percent pure bluesman, resurrecting the career of Muddy Waters, and winning a Grammy Award for his effort, this is a raucous roller coaster of story.
Rolling Stone magazine has called Johnny Winter one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Ripped off and beaten down by unscrupulous managers, strung out, living the extreme highs and extreme lows of an uncompromising musician, Johnny is a true rock 'n' roll survivor. Signing with Columbia in 1969 for the largest advance ever paid a musician (which led to his appearance at Woodstock, recently reissued in the deluxe Woodstock Experience box set) he has jammed with guitar heavies Hendrix, Clapton, and the Allman Brothers. He is a legend and an icon, paving the way for fellow Texas superstars Stevie Ray Vaughan and ZZ Top. Along the way he has gone from boom to bust and back again, but has never lost his lust for his own brand of blues. Still on the road, playing hundreds of gigs a year to his devoted, adoring fans, Johnny, like this book, is the real deal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Backbeat
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879309733
• ISBN 13: 9780879309732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408