Johnny winter 3rd degree mac#

Red stayed in the extra room, and Tommy slept on the couch. Red's mother had a beauty shop, and we practiced at the beauty shop after hours late at night. I said they were crazy-we'd starve to death for sure playing nothing but blues. Up to that point, I had to play soul music, Top 40, Beatles music, a little bit of everything. We don't care if we make any money, we're willing to do straight blues, whether we make it or not.' It was the first time I ever had a straight blues band. They were the first musicians ever to come to me and say, 'We love what you do. I don't feel like I could have made it without them in the first place. I had dreamed about playing with Tommy and Red again ever since we broke up back in 1970 because I don't think any of us really ever wanted that band to break up. And if you can't do it-if you have to have an electric guitar to play the blues-it's not a good feeling. It's a challenge to play, but it's worth it, because before there was electricity, guitars like this were all blues musicians had. I had to practice for about a month before we made the record because they're much harder to play than an electric guitar and I don't play an acoustic on the road. On this album, I used two different Nationals, an old one for all the slide stuff and a newer one for the fretting. It's got all that metal ring to it, a real bluesy sound. I fell in love with that nasty reminds me of a garbage can with wire on it. Actually, I was never interested in playing acoustic guitar until I discovered those metal Nationals back in '68. I think we got a couple of very nice ones on this album. I hope we can work together more in the future.Ī lot of my fans and friends have been asking me when I was gonna do some more acoustic stuff. He knows a lot of great old songs that I don't know, which is excellent because he comes up with songs that I have a good time playing! Our musical roots are so similar that we mesh real well.

He's got that New Orleans flavor that nobody else can do.

Johnny winter 3rd degree mac#

Mac is someone I've known since the early '60s, and I've wanted to record with him for quite a while.

They're right in the pocket, and make me want to play better. To me, these guys are the cream of the crop as far as blues today. It's got a lot of different kinds of blues on it, more variety.įirst, there's Casey, Johnny and Ken.