7/9/2023 0 Comments Johnny winter all star bandYou hear it in every form of popular music that exists today.” “In some ways, it’s all the blues,” Winter says. While Johnny kept to the blues, Edgar’s trail was full of offshoots into jazz, blues, R&B, pop, rock and any other sound that caught his ear. The Winter brothers developed their own connection that Edgar calls “telepathic,” and they collaborated well into the '70s. As teenagers the brothers would visit Beaumont clubs to see blues and R&B stars like Bobby “Blue” Bland, Ray Charles and B.B. The Winter brothers grew up in Beaumont to two musically inclined parents, who placed ukuleles in their hands while they were young. “Brother Johnny” found the younger sibling working out his grief and paying tribute to his first musical hero by covering songs associated with Johnny, assisted by guests including Ringo Starr, Billy Gibbons, Keb’ Mo’, Derek Trucks, Joe Walsh and Kenny Wayne Shepherd, among others. Winter’s big brother, blues great Johnny Winter, died in 2014. Fast forward a half century: Winter last month won a golden gramophone for best contemporary blues album for “Brother Johnny.”ĭepending on one’s accounting, “Brother Johnny,” released on Quarto Valley Records, was eight years or one lifetime in the making. The first time, he drew two nods for “Frankenstein,” his iconic '70s instrumental, but saw Eumir Deodato and Gato Barbieri take home Grammys that night. (Enterprise file art) Photo: fileįifty years separate the first and most recent Grammy nominations earned by Edgar Winter. Johnny and Edgar Winter are from Beaumont. It features Edgar Winter (vocals), Joe Bonamassa (slide guitar), Sean Hurley (bass) & Gregg Bissonette (drums). The second single, “Mean Town Blues,” was released February 18, 2022, just before February 23, what would have been Johnny’s 78th birthday. Goode”, released on January 7, 2022, features Edgar, Joe Walsh, David Grissom, Bob Glaub, Gregg Bissonette and Phil X. The album is now available to pre-order from. Double 180-gram vinyl will be available in mid-June 2022. “Brother Johnny” will be available on CD and digitally across all platforms on April 15, 2022. Joining Edgar on the inclusive project is an impressive array of renowned musicians who knew, or were inspired by Johnny, including Joe Bonamassa, Doyle Bramhall II, Robben Ford, Billy Gibbons, David Grissom, Taylor Hawkins, Warren Haynes, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John McFee, Keb’ Mo’, Doug Rappoport, Bobby Rush, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ringo Starr, Derek Trucks, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Walsh, Phil X, Bob Glaub and Sean Hurley (bass), and Gregg Bissonette (drums), plus musical contributions from Kenny Aronoff, Tim Pierce, Billy Payne, Doc Kupka, and David Campbell. The guitar-driven album celebrates the expansive styles Johnny was known for – the 17 tracks were carefully curated by Edgar and producer Ross Hogarth to represent Johnny’s evolution as an artist, honouring his great legacy while also incorporating a personal tribute from brother to brother, and for which Edgar penned two new songs. He has his own unique style that is absolutely perfect for this song.”īrother Johnny is a powerful sonic journey, traveling the course of Johnny’s musical life, impeccably directed, as only his brother Edgar could. When it came to a special guest artist for this one, there was one and only one person I wanted to do it, and that is Keb’ Mo’. Keb’ Mo’ is a real blues man who feels it heart and soul. ![]() “So I wrote this about something I know Johnny felt deep in his heart…The idea of being a star yet feeling all alone…and then the perfect title, ‘Lone Star Blues’ came to me which as a native Texan carries a double meaning. “I don’t think this album would be complete without at least one, heartfelt, personal tribute from me to my brother–in the form of a song,” Edgar wrote in the album’s liner notes. Edgar’s gritty singing and Keb’s impeccable guitar works to transport the listener to a small smoky backroom club and the lonesome dirt road that leads there. “Lone Star Blues” features Edgar Winter and Keb’ Mo’, a perfect pairing for this personal and biographical song Edgar penned especially for this tribute. Quarto Valley Records releases “Lone Star Blues”, the third single off the upcoming new album “Brother Johnny,” an all-star tribute to Johnny Winter organized by his brother Edgar Winter.
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