Chords for Johnny Winter - Guitar Slinger - Interview

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See this is what the [Bb] blues is all about man.
It's like you know a conversation [B] talking to your old [D] friends you know.
We've been friends for a long time so this ain't gonna be no fun at all when you get
up and you [G] know.
This is what makes blues [D] different from other kinds of music.
Other kinds you have to plan it out and [Gm] work it out.
But blues, if you know how to play blues [A] you can play blues.
[Dm] We're gonna play some blues for you right now.
[N] When I first made it was about 1968.
_ The last of 68 actually.
There was a Rolling Stone article [D] that came out talking about Texas musicians and how
many great Texas musicians had already made it.
And then it went into detail about a few of us that were starving and great and had a
really cute picture of me.
_ And in the middle.
And it was a really nice article and all of a _ sudden from that one article people that
didn't care wouldn't talk to me the day before the article came out.
Just because one writer says I'm great. _
Everybody just decides oh he's right.
And people were calling me from the west coast, from the east coast, from Europe, everywhere.
It was amazing.
It's a family thing with Alligator.
You feel like you're doing something good for music. _
_ _ You're accomplishing something.
Not just trying to copy whatever is _ popular. _
_ _ That never interested me [G] very much anyway.
I'm going to go home.
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I feel about this record for several hours how great it is.
For several different reasons.
It captures the best of what [Dm] I do.
And that's several different things.
It's the [Bm] Texas, Louisiana style.
It's the Chicago style.
It's all this stuff put into a [C] high energy background where you [G] can't tell the difference
where blues stops and rock and roll [D] starts.
It's a great record.
It's my favorite record.
And I think it [D] will be 20 years from now.
[Bb] This one goes from [D] California, [Ab] Sunset Strip. _
This one from Texas obviously.
And Spatter Red did, New York [D] did these two.
And this [Gb] one, he was the first person I'd seen [D] Spatter's books.
He was somebody that I respected a lot.
So [N] when I met him and he said,
Your skin would be perfect.
Tattoos would be so good.
_ [G] I was over there the next day [Eb] ready to check it out.
_ You can't say somebody would [C] play better on drugs.
I don't think anybody ever really [Bm] plays better on drugs.
If you're so unhappy and miserable that you _ can't make it,
maybe [D] drugs wouldn't able you to play when you should be in a mental hospital. _ _ _
Except for that, man.
[Bb] It doesn't make you play better.
You've got to be inside of you.
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At the same time that my record, Guitar Slinger, is coming out on Alligator,
there was a record that I cut two years ago
with veteran blues singer and harmonica player Sonny Terry.
And _ Sonny also, we had Willie Dixon who has written _ _ _ _
_ hundreds of songs for [Bm] every blues player in the world playing bass on this.
And it was to me a landmark album for Sonny
because Sonny's just about ready to retire. _ _
This record _ _ was _ _ kind of putting Sonny's [D] more mellow _ background
that he's used to playing with Brown and McGee
into a more Mississippi Delta and a harder _ background.
I'm very, very proud of this record.
And I hope everybody likes [D] it as much as I do. _ _ _ _ _
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