John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born on 23 February, 1944 in Beaumont, Texas, USA) is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer. He is the first son of John and Edwina Winter who were very much responsible for Johnny's and his younger brother's, Edgar Winter's, early musical awareness. Both Johnny and Edgar have albinism.
Timothy J. Winter (born 1960), aka Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, is a British Muslim thinker, translator, and teacher. Equally conversant in both traditional Islamic scholarship and Western thought and civilization, Winter is undoubtedly one of the most influential Muslim thinkers alive today. Winter has made notable contributions in the following areas: Muslim-Christian relations, Islamic ethics, Sufism, Islamic theology, Hadith studies, orthodox Muslim responses to extremism, sexuality in Islam, Islam and gender, Islam and the West, British Islam, religious life in Ottoman Turkey, and the Scriptural Reasoning project.
"Winter" was the second song to be released as a single, in 1992, from Tori Amos' debut solo album, Little Earthquakes. The song also appears on Amos' 2003 compilation, Tales of a Librarian. The music video can be seen on the two currently available video collections - Tori Amos: Complete Videos 1991-1998 and Fade to Red. The song was written about Amos's relationship with her father, who is a minister.
The single was released globally in a variety of formats with slightly differing artwork and track listings. Ironically the most commonly available version is the United States release, which is labeled as a "Limited Edition" release. That version comes in a digipack case with a compartment in which a "handwritten lyrics" insert is contained. The far more rare U.K. Limited Edition release duplicates the b-sides of the Crucify E.P. which was released in the U.S.A. (It is essentially the four tracks that appear on that release besides the title track.)
"Winter" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup.
"Winter" bears many similarities to "Moonlight Mile" from their previous album Sticky Fingers. Credited to singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, "Winter" is likely the work of Jagger and the Stones' second guitarist at the time, Mick Taylor. It was the first song recorded for the album and does not feature Richards at all. On the song, Bill Janovitz says in his review, "Here they were in sunny Jamaica, and the Rolling Stones were writing and recording an entirely convincing and evocative picture of a Northern Hemisphere winter. Perhaps they were so happy to be escaping the season they felt that starting the sessions with "Winter" could transition them out of the old and into the new climate. Though it bemoans many of the negatives of the season [in the] lyrics... "Winter" seems to simultaneously celebrate the season as something inherently beautiful, with other evocations of holiday scenes and wanting to wrap a coat and keep a lover warm."
Recording began at Kingston's Dynamic Sound Studios in November and continued into December of 1972. Jagger opens the song with the acoustic rhythm guitar piece and is accompanied by Taylor's "country-like licks" on lead. Taylor also plays slide guitar. Nicky Hopkins performs the song's accompanying piano while Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts perform bass and drums, respectively. The songs strings were arranged by Nicky Harrision.
Despite his considerable contribution to the song, Taylor never received official credit from Jagger or Richards.
