Johnny Winter, Blues Torchbearer: An Appreciation — billboard.com

From the moment Johnny Winter made his national debut on the stage at Woodstock until his death Wednesday in Zurich, Switzerland, he played the role of blues proselytizer. Winter, who had turned 70 in February, was drawing on the same well in 2014 – early rock 'n' roll hits of the 1950s, Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles – as he did during his hour-long midday set at the landmark music festival in 1969.

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