“He wrote how in high school he had a severe facial disfigurement. “I got a letter from a guy years after I wrote it,” he remembers fondly. Produced by Rick Derringer, the self-titled album contained Edgar’s most beautiful song, “Dying To Live,” a gem that’s up amongst the greatest compositions of that or any year.
Especially Ray Charles on ‘What’d I Say.’ Then organs! Jimmy Smith! Brother Jack McDuff! Jimmy McGriff!”Įdgar Winter’s White Trash debuted in 1971. Then all these electric piano players came out. Then, in Johnny & The Jammers, I played drums.
That’s when I said, ‘Well, I’ll just play everything else.’ I played bass at first. When Johnny graduated to guitar, it became quite apparent how good he was and that he was to be the guitar player of the family. I didn’t take music that seriously, though, until my teens when I discovered jazz and classical.
Ukulele! The both of us! And we’d sing like The Everly Brothers. I started playing when I was four and Johnny was seven. I remember saying to some kids, ‘What? Your dad hasn’t shown you some chords?’ That’s when we learned that our household was rather special. When Johnny and I tried to put together bands throughout our neighborhood, we were surprised to learn it wasn’t like that in the homes of our friends. Music was an everyday activity in our house. My mother played beautiful classical piano. “My dad played guitar and banjo after playing alto sax in a swing band and singing in a choir and a barbershop quartet. “I grew up in a musical family,” he explains. When Edgar struck out on his own, though, in 1970, with his self-produced Entrance album, he positively dazzled on organ, vocals, alto saxophone, piano and celeste. In the 1960s, Johnny used to call out his little brother Edgar to blow some saxophone or play some keyboards. I think we’re all tempted to feel like the time we came up was somehow special but I really do believe objectively that there were two golden eras in music: the ’40s and ’50s for jazz and and the ’60s and ’70s for rock, although the ’50s laid rock’s foundations. He loves ’70s classic rock and his mission is to try to carry on that music and recreate that atmosphere of freedom. Finally, though, I met this guy, Bruce Quarto, who has a label, Quarto Valley Records. It just seemed exploitive to me, like doing it for the wrong reasons and trying to capitalize on my brother’s name. I got a lot of requests from people all over, musicians as well as record companies, all expressing interest.
“I had been very reluctant to do it at first. “I finally decided to do a Johnny Winter tribute album,” says the late Beaumont, Texas guitarist’s little brother Edgar. (Photo by Michael Marks/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Related: Watch Johnny Winter’s Electric Performance From Massey Hall 1983Ī recreation of the song “Guess I’ll Go Away” off of 1970’s Johnny Winter And features the late Taylor Hawkins on vocals, marking the Foo Fighters drummer’s first posthumous release since his tragic death.Musician brother duo Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter pose for a portrait session on Jat the Lamar Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Goode” with Joe Walsh and David Grissom, and Muddy Waters‘s “Got My Mojo Workin” with Bobby Rush on vocals. The album’s 17 guitar-driven tracks celebrate Johnny’s evolution as an artist, with a broad range of originals and covers including the Rolling Stones‘ “Jumping’ Jack Flash” with Phil X on vocals, Chuck Berry’s “ Johnny B. The new tribute album from Edgar Winter is an emotional homage to his brother Johnny, who passed away in 2014. The album features two new original tracks and guest appearances by Ringo Starr, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Walsh, and the late Taylor Hawkins, among others.įamous for their musical prowess and distinctive fair-haired look, Edgar and Johnny Winter attained notoriety in the early ’70s with songs like “Free Ride” and the rocking instrumental “Frankenstein”. Edgar Winter has released a star-studded, 17-song tribute to his brother and bandmate, guitarist Johnny Winter.
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