RIP: Johnny Winter & Elaine Stritch
Two serious soulful performers gone. A guitar god who sometimes placed speed (in both ways) ahead of pitch or accuracy, and one of the most galvanizing stage performers (for whom pitch was thankfully never the point) I’ve ever seen with a particular penchant for the music of Stephen Sondheim:
Tags: El Somnambulo, Elaine Stritch, Johnny Winter, Steve Tanzer
Johnny Winter is a huge loss. Much influence on blues and blues based southern rock from my old stomping grounds in the Gulf Coast. Beaumont….what a crappy, toxic place to spawn such a great musician.
I loved Elaine Stritch — she certainly marched to her own drummer and owned every step of it. And what’s not to admire about a woman who lived in the Carlyle Hotel? There was a great documentary about her life out late last year. It is a worthy way of spending an evening with her.