Mary lou sullivan is an award winning journalist author public relations professional and former radio show host her first authorized biography raisin cain the wild and raucous story of johnny winter backbeat books may 2010 earned popular and critical acclaim as well as prestigious awards for the quality of her writing and her research. Raisin cain the wild and raucous story of johnny winter kindle edition kindle edition by sullivan mary lou download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading raisin cain the wild and raucous story of johnny winter kindle edition. The thing i really like about mary lou sullivans raisin cain is the way she captures johnny winters personality throughout the book and reveals a lot of his many idiosyncrasies nocturnal by nature johnny still has what one of his sidemen called a vampire schedule staying up all night going to bed at 6 or 7am and sleeping . Rolling stone magazine has called johnny winter one of the greatest guitar players of all time a legend and an icon johnny has jammed with guitar heavies jimi hendrix eric clapton bb king freddie king buddy guy dickey betts and duane allman and paved the way for fellow texas superstars stevie ray vaughan and zz top. Engineer dennis ferrante worked with producer shelly yakus on john dawson winter iiidennis had engineered several john lennon albums at the record plant including imagine sometime in new york city mind games and walls and bridges when he was hired to work with johnny in 1974 dennis talked about the recording session with johnny and how edgars and johnnys styles differ in the studio