Winter was a regional star in the US south, but major success came knocking in the wake of a 1968 article in Rolling Stone magazine about the Texas music scene. In 1966 Johnny hit the Billboard Hot 100 with a version of Harlem Shuffle, which he recorded with the Traits. Between 19 he played regularly across the deep south with Black Plague (featuring Edgar) and his own band It and Them (also known as The Crystaliers). In the early 60s Johnny recorded numerous singles for such local labels as Frolic, Diamond and Goldband, and scored a local hit with Eternally, distributed by Atlantic. In 1962 Johnny formed Johnny and the Jammers, with Edgar on keyboards.
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In 1959 the Winter brothers, already known from local talent and TV shows, cut the singles School Day Blues and You Know I Love You for the Houston label Dart Records. The pair began playing music before they went to school, Johnny initially trying the clarinet before switching to the ukulele and guitar while Edgar played keyboards. Both Johnny and his younger brother Edgar were born with albinism. Son of John and Edwina, Winter was a native of Beaumont, Texas. "The high point of my career was working with Muddy," Winter reflected. Muddy "Mississippi" Waters – Live (1979) completed the Grammy hat-trick. The album won a Grammy for best blues album, and when Winter produced Waters's follow-up, I'm Ready, it won another. It was when the blues veteran Muddy Waters asked Winter to produce his comeback album, Hard Again (1977), that Winter felt he had finally got back in touch with his blues roots, after several years of playing a flashy rock-blues mixture to arena-sized crowds.
It took Winter several years of working with different musicians and musical styles, as well as nine months of treatment for heroin addiction in the River Oaks hospital in New Orleans, before he could find what he was looking for.
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