Hear Johnny Winter's Bluesy Final Recording 'Death Letter' — rollingstone.com

A little over a year before his death, blues icon Johnny Winter made what would become his final recording: a cover of Son House's 1965 blues classic "Death Letter." Video footage of the session, which took place on February 4th, 2013, shows the singer and guitarist donning a metal slide for a particularly bendy and grisly acoustic version of the track. The song appears on Winter's final album, Step Back, which came out posthumously in September. When somebody told him it sounded great at the end of the video, Winter laughed and said, "I'm ready to go home."

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