UPDATE: Johnny in New Haven tonight!

On the road: Johnny will play a one-nighter at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut, tonight. Showtime is 8 p.m., and you can find tickets here.

Johnny will then be off a few days before hitting the road and rounding out January with the following shows: Dexter's at Riverdale, N.J. (Jan. 16); Kowloon at Saugus, Mass., where Johnny will be joined by friend and former bandmate James Montgomery (Jan. 17); The Stone Church in Newmarket, N.H. on Jan. 18 (see interview here); Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Mass. (Jan. 19); Rebecca Cohn Art Centre in Halifax, N.S., Canada (Jan. 21); B.B. King's Blues Club in New York City (Jan. 23); and Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, Md. (Jan. 25-26). To see a complete list of scheduled dates, click here.

UPDATE: Looks like the Newmarket, Fall River and Halifax performances are sold out! Check with the venues to see if any additional tickets might become available.

For your reading pleasure: "A Winter Tale of Hot Blues at Clearwater." Published in the Elgin (Ill.) Courier-News.

Johnny to play Chicago Blues Festival: In what promises to be one of the year's highlights, Johnny will make an opening-night appearance at the Chicago Blues Festival on Thursday, June 5. His performance, which will celebrate the legacy of Muddy Waters (and will also include harp master James Cotton), will mark Johnny's first time at the storied festival since since the inaugural event in 1984, according to the Mayor's Office of Special Events.

Happy holidays from JohnnyWinter.net...

Above: Johnny cuts loose with Pat Ramsey on "Hoochie Coochie Man" at the Freebird Cafe in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, on December 14.

The latest: Johnny will enjoy some time off at the beginning of 2008 after playing a trio of post-Christmas gigs this week in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; and West Dundee, Illinois. He'll spend most of January in the northeast before heading out to the West Coast and Pacific Northwest in the latter half of February. For a complete list of Johnny's current tour dates, click here. And to check out a couple of recent newspaper features, click here and here.

Johnny earns BMA nomination! "Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down," which features Johnny, Muddy Waters and James Cotton, has earned a Blues Music Award nomination for Historical Album of the Year. Winners will be announced May 8, 2008, when The Blues Foundation presents the awards at the Grand Casino Event Center at Tunica Resorts, Mississippi, just a stone's throw away from the event's longtime Memphis home. For more information and a complete list of this year's nominees, click here.

Around the Web: We're always on the lookout for all things Johnny on the World Wide Web. Some cool photos here.

For your post-turkey blues: Johnny at the Count Basie Theater

When the eating is over: The Friday-night party will be happening in Red Bank, New Jersey, where our friend Joe DeJessa has assembled yet another killer bill at the fabled Count Basie Theater: Johnny, Rick Derringer and guitar-slinger J.B. Kline. Click here for ticket information. Show time is 7:30 p.m. Be there!

Crossroads on PBS: If you missed all the excitement of Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival, undeniably one of 2007's most unforgettable rock events, be sure to tune in to your local PBS station for broadcast times. And look for Johnny with the Derek Trucks Band, as well as during the show's finale! As of this post, the first broadcast is slated for November 28 by New York's WNET (Channel 13).

Johnny in Modern Guitars: Interview here!

Around the Web: Click here for shots of Johnny in action at Savannah, Georgia.

UPDATE: Johnny on Crossroads DVD...

From the road: Johnny rocked the Inter-Media Art Center in Huntington, New York, on Saturday night (11/3), and now gets to enjoy a few days off before picking things up on Wednesday at the North Theatre in Danville, Virginia. Johnny will then hit the Handlebar in Greenville, South Carolina (11/8); Smith’s Olde Bar in Atlanta (11/9); the Roundhouse Blues & BBQ Festival in Savannah, Georgia (11/10); and The Pour House in Charleston, South Carolina (11/11).

Above Huntington photo courtesy of our friend Neil Calandra. (Thanks, Neil!) And for more of Johnny’s upcoming tour dates, click here.

Crossroads DVD: Readers of this space know that Johnny had a blast in late July when he took the stage at Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival in suburban Chicago, delivering a scorching reading of “Highway 61 Revisited” alongside the Derek Trucks Band. That performance, as well as Johnny’s participation in the all-star jam finale, can be found on Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 from Chicago, due November 20 from Rhino.

Got live blues? Two of Johnny’s recent releases have recently gained some traction on the Billboard Blues Chart. Of course, we’re talking about the new Live Bootleg Series, Vol. I, which finds Johnny opening up his personal vaults for the first time ever, and Breakin’ It Up, Breakin’ It Down, which captures Johnny on stage in the late 1970s with blues icons Muddy Waters and James Cotton.

Around the Web: We’re always interested to see shots of Johnny in cyberspace. Recent samplings can be found here, here and here.

And for some really incredible shots of a 25-year-old Johnny (taken in 1969), click here.

See you on the road!