Steve Paul

Muddy's career at this time, Jim, was floundering at Chess Records.

So he went shopping for a new label and CBS said, hey, how about Blue Sky Records? It was run by Johnny Winters, then manager Steve Paul.

When Muddy heard the name Johnny Winters, That was it.

That's all Johnny, excuse me, Muddy needed to hear.

I'd like to thank all the Definitely Dylan patrons.

Especially Abbey Slaman, Al D'Alangelo, Alex, Andrew Collis, Andrew Milam, Anne Hudgens, Anna-Sophie Lassen, Antonia Tori, Bill Atenzi, Brian Walsh, Charles Reid, Claire Wellborn, Kurt Carney, David Alexander-Watts, David Brewiler, David Jones, Dennis Myers Jr., Edwin Mulhall, Eric Asimov, Aaron C. Callahan, Phil Riefel, Friedrich Dunkel, Graham Gaskell, Grayley Heron, Hans Dobratz, Henry B., Jacob Martinez, Jeff Pass, Joachim Meckel, John C., John Kiefer, Julie Cohn, June Farrell, Kai-Kris Galborum, The Cover Sir, Mary-Hur Talley, Melanie Young, Olaf, Paul Schmitz, Per, Peter McKay, Peter White, Roberta Rakoff, Robin Ha, Scott Pollock, Stephen Pachura, Steve Paul, Susanne, Thomas Perry, Tom, Trey Stockard, Wade Greiner, William Altcroft, and Simi.

Thank you very much.

when I was younger, I learned a lot about how to interact with the audience from Johnny Winter 'cause I had a job sort of helping with Johnny.

Johnny was completely color blind, and when I was living at the Chelsea, so was Johnny, and Steve Paul, his manager, actually gave me a job 'cause I was very trustworthy.

Just, you know, walking with Johnny when he had to cross a lot of streets and things 'cause he couldn't tell the red from the green traffic lights, things like that.

I went to London once with them just to make sure Johnny was maneuvering the streets well, and so I went to a lot of his concerts.

I kicked around New York City for two years.

Um, had house bands at the Cafe Au Go Go, or I had the house band at Steve Paul's scene when, uh, Bobby Colomby came in and heard me.

He came back and brought Katz and Fielder and Cooper.

There was a movement right then and there to get me into the band because Bobby realized, Bobby, as the jazz musician of the group, Bobby went to work very hard to get me into the band.