A returning veteran disappears into a Midwest landscape of night trains, truck stops, and prairie fires. A former baseball star fades into the tattered memories of his dreams. A holy roller faces judgement for a life of hypocrisy. These are the folks who inhabit the songs of Kurt Winikka.
Growing up in the Southwest, raising a family in the Midwest, and finding his bearings as a singer/songwriter in New England, Kurt meticulously crafts engaging narratives informed by the breadth of the American experience, and conveys them with precise guitar work and a dulcet voice.
Kurt now records and performs as Vinegar Johnson.