<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of the Chicago Tribune at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80828157/">http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80828157/</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4375em; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(251, 252, 252);">Famed blues guitarist Johnny Winter dead at 70</h1><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Johnny Winter, an American blues rock guitarist, vocalist and band leader best known for his virtuoso slide-guitar solos and raspy vocals, was found dead in a hotel room outside Zurich, Swiss police said on Thursday. He was 70.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Along with his brother, Edgar Winter, also a well known blues musician, the two revered African-American blues tradition and began performing in his teens.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Johnny, distinctive because he and brother Edgar were albino, broke into national fame in 1968, when Rolling Stone magazine dubbed him the hottest musician outside Janis Joplin.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 1969, he played the Newport Jazz Festival, where he performed with B.B. King, one of his musical idols, and at Woodstock.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He also produced albums for his idol, Muddy Waters, in the 1970s, helping to burnish the reputation of the legendary bluesman.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Among Winter's best known songs was "Still Alive and Well", a blues rock stomper recorded after he resurfaced from heroin addiction in the 1970s.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A new Winter album, on which Eric Clapton and Ben Harper appear as guests, is set to be released on Sept. 2. A boxed collections of his main tracks since the 1960s was released this year, complete with tributes from other performers who said he'd been a seminal influence on their careers.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In an interview with the New York Times earlier this year, Winter said he enjoyed touring and working with younger musicians.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I think about legacy a lot," he said. "Hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want."</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Winter was found dead overnight in a hotel room outside Zurich, according to a police spokeswoman. A prosecutor has ordered an autopsy because the cause of death is unclear.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was no indication of third-party involvement, and early indications pointed to a medically related incident.</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Johnny Winter</span></p><p style="border: 0px solid rgb(196, 196, 196); margin: 0px 0px 1.3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-hyphens: auto;"><img src="cid:C4C502BD-4298-4CFC-853E-D94E44C07C2B" alt="image.jpeg" id="C4C502BD-4298-4CFC-853E-D94E44C07C2B" width="630" height="473"></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" by Johnny Winter</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/JohnnyWinter/Rock_and_Roll_Hoochie_Koo.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/JohnnyWinter/Rock_and_Roll_Hoochie_Koo.mp3</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Still Alive and Well" by Johnny Winter</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/JohnnyWinter/Still_Alive_and_Well.mp3">http://www.TomandRodna.com/Songs/JohnnyWinter/Still_Alive_and_Well.mp3</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Rest well, Johnny.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>