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JOHNNY WINTER - Down & Dirty Documentary Film Release Details Revealed
December 16, 2015

Johnny Winter

More than 60 years ago in Beaumont, Texas, renowned bluesman Johnny Winter was kicked out of the elementary church choir for singing too loudly. “I said, I’m not singing too loud, these other @#$%& are singing way too quiet, you can’t even hear ‘em.”

“I always like stories about people that drink and have drug problems and women problems,” Johnny says in his film Down & Dirty. “It’s just interesting.”

Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty, the definitive, feature-length documentary by acclaimed Lemmy co-director and producer, Greg Olliver, will be available worldwide on March 4th on DVD and iTunes. The package will feature never-before-seen photos and bonus footage, including extended interviews and his final studio performance, a solo resonator version of the Son House classic, “Death Letter”.

Produced independently through Secret Weapon Films in NYC, director Greg Olliver was welcomed into the Johnny Winter family during the final two years of Johnny’s life, where he captured the making of his Grammy-winning album Step Back (Best Blues Album, 2015) and travelled the world from Beaumont to Hong Kong. Winter continued to perform over 200 sold out shows a year until his death on tour in Switzerland in 2014.

Down & Dirty is an intimate portrait of Johnny and the blues (“guitar is the only thing I was ever really great at”); his childhood (“I got in a lot of fights...Just ‘cause you’re a different color, they don’t like it? You don’t like black people because they’re black? They didn’t like me because I was too white?”); friendship and loss (Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker); relationships (Janis Joplin and his current wife of over 20 years), and his crushing addiction to heroin and methadone (learn how Johnny's guitarist and close friend Paul Nelson secretly weaned Johnny off a 30-year addiction).

“I grew up in Houston listening to the blues, so making a film with Johnny is a dream come true for me,” says Olliver, who premiered the film at SXSW to critical acclaim. “At the SXSW screening, Johnny was having so much fun. He was sitting behind me with a big tub of popcorn laughing at his own jokes. He was really psyched to see himself on the big screen. At the time, there weren’t many blues icons left out there, I feel very honoured to have worked with him. His is a story that needs to be told!”

Down & Dirty features Clive Davis, Edgar Winter, James Cotton, Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Luther Nallie, Joe Perry, Tommy Shannon, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks and more.

In 1968, Rolling Stone introduced Johnny as “a cross-eyed albino with long, fleecy hair, playing some of the gutsiest, fluid blues guitar you’ve ever heard.” Jimi Hendrix sought him out as a sideman, his friend John Lennon wrote “Rock And Roll People” in his honour, and he revived the careers of friends John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters through Grammy-winning collaborations. Muddy recognized Johnny's talent at first glance, sparking one of the great friendships of their lives. Johnny reflected, “It’s the most fun I’ve ever had playing music.”

Down & Dirty Trailer




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Thanks Hairball. Always loved him (RIP). I'll look forward to this too!

Thank you, Hairball! This documentary must be very interesting.

one of my all time favorites , who i miss so much to this day .i can remember when we were young brats all of 16 years going to see him for the first time at a local theatre and just being blown away by his fretwork work and his tremondous feel for the blues .absolute killer licks and so much tone with the best slide playing that i have ever heard to this day .

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one of my all time favorites , who i miss so much to this day .i can remember when we were young brats all of 16 years going to see him for the first time at a local theatre and just being blown away by his fretwork work and his tremondous feel for the blues .absolute killer licks and so much tone with the best slide playing that i have ever heard to this day .

I was about the same age when I saw him for the first time c'79 at the Santa Monica Civic.
As with several other shows I saw there around that time, we were front row thanks to my older brother.
I remember drawing a picture the day after of Johnny on stage for a high school art class I had at the time - might still have it in one of my old portfolios. Saw him many times after in the '80's and early '90's and all were amazing. The last time I saw him around '95 or so he was in serious decline, it was sad to witness. Never saw him again after that, but was glad to hear about his comeback - mentally and physically.

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cant wait to see this film.

I love his version of JJF.



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Sounds exciting

"I think that Johnny, now, is really coming back to being himself" - Edgar Winter

If I were the director I would have taken that clip out of the documentary, all things considered...

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"I think that Johnny, now, is really coming back to being himself" - Edgar Winter

If I were the director I would have taken that clip out of the documentary, all things considered...

Actually that quote could add a bittersweet irony to the film and give the viewer the impression that Johnny was happy when he died. I don't believe the cause of death has ever been made public?

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"I think that Johnny, now, is really coming back to being himself" - Edgar Winter

If I were the director I would have taken that clip out of the documentary, all things considered...

Actually that quote could add a bittersweet irony to the film and give the viewer the impression that Johnny was happy when he died. I don't believe the cause of death has ever been made public?

From the L.A. Times July 17, 2014 (the day he died).
Johnny Winter

"His death in a Zurich hotel room was confirmed by John Lappen, his public relations manager.
Winter, who had emphysema, was recently diagnosed with pneumonia, Lappen said".

Not an official autopsy report, but sounds like a reasonable cause.

I remember that day well as it was my birthday. I was up in the country (Kern River - up in the hills about 60 miles above and beyond Bakersfield ) with family and friends for our annual reunion.
Drinking beer, fishing, and listening to Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, et al. Someone saw the news on the internet, my cousin brought out a bottle of whiskey, and for the rest of the night we listened to Johnny Winter via youtube.

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

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Boognish
"I think that Johnny, now, is really coming back to being himself" - Edgar Winter

If I were the director I would have taken that clip out of the documentary, all things considered...

Actually that quote could add a bittersweet irony to the film and give the viewer the impression that Johnny was happy when he died. I don't believe the cause of death has ever been made public?

From the L.A. Times July 17, 2014 (the day he died).
Johnny Winter

"His death in a Zurich hotel room was confirmed by John Lappen, his public relations manager.
Winter, who had emphysema, was recently diagnosed with pneumonia, Lappen said".

Not an official autopsy report, but sounds like a reasonable cause.

I remember that day well as it was my birthday. I was up in the country (Kern River - up in the hills about 60 miles above and beyond Bakersfield ) with family and friends for our annual reunion.
Drinking beer, fishing, and listening to Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, et al. Someone saw the news on the internet, my cousin brought out a bottle of whiskey, and for the rest of the night we listened to Johnny Winter via youtube.

Nice story you country hick, no wonder you like Crosseyed Heart so much. lol

Just kidding of course if you were really a country hick you definitely wouldn't have had YouTube access on a beer drinking, fishing, country music get together.

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Boognish
"I think that Johnny, now, is really coming back to being himself" - Edgar Winter

If I were the director I would have taken that clip out of the documentary, all things considered...

Actually that quote could add a bittersweet irony to the film and give the viewer the impression that Johnny was happy when he died. I don't believe the cause of death has ever been made public?

From the L.A. Times July 17, 2014 (the day he died).
Johnny Winter

"His death in a Zurich hotel room was confirmed by John Lappen, his public relations manager.
Winter, who had emphysema, was recently diagnosed with pneumonia, Lappen said".

Not an official autopsy report, but sounds like a reasonable cause.

I remember that day well as it was my birthday. I was up in the country (Kern River - up in the hills about 60 miles above and beyond Bakersfield ) with family and friends for our annual reunion.
Drinking beer, fishing, and listening to Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, et al. Someone saw the news on the internet, my cousin brought out a bottle of whiskey, and for the rest of the night we listened to Johnny Winter via youtube.

Nice story you country hick, no wonder you like Crosseyed Heart so much. lol

Just kidding of course if you were really a country hick you definitely wouldn't have had YouTube access on a beer drinking, fishing, country music get together.

We stay just up the road from Kernville in fully furnished cabins w/kitchen, tv, AC/heat, and all the comforts of home - including internet haha, and built in brick bbq pits out front of each cabin w/river view.
The same cabins we've all gathered at annually for the last 50 years - the Gateway to Sequoia National Forest -giant redwoods up the road, and Lake Isabella down the road...kind of like paradise.
Only 150 miles from where I live, but a completely different world up thar in them hills.

Yeehaw

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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......