PHOTOS: Blues guitar legend Johnny Winter dies at 70

Johnny Winter performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans on Saturday, May 3, 2014. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP) ( 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - Day 6 )

Johnny Winter, entertainer, as he performed at New York's Palladium Theater on Oct. 1, 1977, in a benefit performance for the New York Public Library to purchase rare blues records. (AP Photo) ( Johnny Winter )

Johnny Winter performs at the 2014 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on Saturday, May 3, 2014, in New Orleans. (Photo by John Davisson/Invision/AP) ( 2014 New Orleans Jazz Festival - Weekend 2 - Day 3 )

Johnny Winter performs during Hippiefest at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on August 26, 2012 in Coconut Creek, Fla. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP) ( Hippiefest 2012 )

Johnny Winter performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans on Saturday, May 3, 2014. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP) ( 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - Day 6 )

From Left, Johnny Winter and Kim Simmons perform during Hippiefest at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on August 26, 2012 in Coconut Creek, Fla. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP) ( Hippiefest 2012 )

Johnny Winter performs at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans on Saturday, May 3, 2014. (Photo by Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP) ( 2014 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - Day 6 )

Johnny Winter performs during Hippiefest at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on August 26, 2012 in Coconut Creek, Fla. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP) ( Hippiefest 2012 )

From Left, Rick Derringer,Johnny Winter,Kim Simmons and Johnny Winter perform during Hippiefest at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on August 26, 2012 in Coconut Creek, Fla. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP) ( Hippiefest 2012 )

Johnny Winter performs during Hippiefest at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on August 26, 2012 in Coconut Creek, Fla. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP) ( Hippiefest 2012 )

Blues Artist Johnny Winter performs at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds Race Course on April 25, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images) ( 57281955 )

Blues Artist Johnny Winter performs at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds Race Course on April 25, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images) ( 57281939 )

Blues Artist Johnny Winter performs at the 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds Race Course on April 25, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images) ( 57281951 )

Johnny Winter plays during the Canton Blues Festival 2009, Friday, June 19, 2009 in downtown Canton, Ohio. (AP Photo / The Repository, Bob Rossiter) ( Canton Blues Festival )

In this Saturday, July 28, 2007 file photo, Johnny Winter, seated, and Derek Trucks, background, perform "Highway 61" at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago. Texas blues icon Johnny Winter, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and '70s with his energetic performances and recordings that included producing his childhood hero Muddy Waters, died in Zurich, Switzerland on Wednesday, July 16, 2014. He was 70. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) ( Switzerland Obit Winter )