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Johnny Winter: Behind the Scene With Steve Paul

Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1971

THE BIG dusty black Cadillac limousine comes rolling around the comer at Twenty-First Street, turns into the dimly-lighted stage-set stillness of Gramercy Park East, and stops under the chilly autumn stars in front of the house that chutzpah built: the house of Steve Paul, erstwhile owner of The Scene, and manager of Johnny Winter, the Texas bonus baby and guitar wizard.

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