Johnny Winter

Johnny Winter, born in Beaumont, Texas, to a father from Leland, grew up dreaming of playing with Muddy Waters and often told that story on stage. He got his wish: he later produced and played on Waters's albums, and the partnership earned Waters three Grammy Awards, with another Grammy later going to Winter's own Nothin' But the Blues. The Winter family business in Leland was cotton, not music, but the house was musical too, with a father who played saxophone and guitar.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Greenville Levee and the 1927 Flood — 9.8 mi
  The Mississippi River levee at Greenville, where thousands of mostly Black refugees camped in the flood of April 1927 and where the Department of Archives and History has placed markers.
• Winterville Mounds — 11 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.
• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 15 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Lake Chicot State Park — 17 mi
  A state park on the largest natural lake in Arkansas, a 20-mile oxbow of the Mississippi River that was cleaned up and reopened after decades of silt.

More markers nearby

• Son Thomas — steps away
• Tyrone Davis — steps away
• Birthplace of Kermit the Frog — steps away
• Ruby's Nite Spot — 0.3 mi