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"Uncle" John Turner  

      John Turner, Tommy Shannon, Johhny Winter

Biography

Uncle John Turner was born and raised in Port Arthur, Texas. He first played drums with Jerry LaCroix. "Unc" met the Winter brothers and performed with them a few times as a substitute. In 1968, "Unc" convinced Johnny Winter to try a full blown blues band and sent for his friend Tommy Shannon to play bass. This group quickly got national recognition and began making records and shortly after that played Woodstock, with Edgar Winter as the fourth member. Edgar, John, Johnny, Tommy

 

Krackerjack w/Stevie Ray Vaughn By late 1970, they had split up and Uncle John and Tommy moved to Austin and formed a band called Krackerjack, which had Stevie Ray Vaughan as one of the major guitarists, along with Jesse Taylor, John Stahely, and Robin Siler.


"Unc" then moved to Houston for a while and made records with Isaac Payton Sweat, Ezra Charles, and Joey Long and played and recorded the next four years with Alan Haynes.

After this, Johnny Winter, Tommy Shannon, and Uncle John did some recording on Johnny's Third Degree album.

Uncle John then joined Paul Orta and made three albums with him before he and Appa Perry began the Blues Power project, which was Uncle John and Appa and different artists, including Alan Haynes, Mike Keller and Matt Farrell (of the Keller Brothers Band), Matthew Robinson, John McVey, Mark Goodwin, and newcomers Erin "Icewater James", Eve Moncees and Gary Clark Jr,, among
others.

Uncle John has jammed with B. B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Freddie King, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Lightnin' Hopkins, and many more. "Unc" has also recorded with Walter "Shakey" Horton, Willie Dixon, Albert Collins, Nuno Mindelis, the Blues King of Brazil, and many more.


Uncle John Turner

 

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