![]() When I do I’ll try to create situations where I can cross paths with all the musicians who are on this album.īrother Johnny is out now via Quarto Valley Records. Whether I’ll go out with my band I’m not sure. And that would feel safe – private jet, private cars, the best isolation. But now, with a touring entity known as the Johnny Winter All Star Band people like Sonny Landreth, Joe Louis Walker, Warren Haynes and ZZ Top’s Billy F. But Ringo asked me to go out if he does the All-Star tour this year. I haven’t been out of the house since this whole pandemic started. I started thinking more about what it meant to be an artist, not just a musician. The whole thing was set against the peace movement and civil rights, and I began to see that music could have a higher purpose: to bring people together. You were twenty-three when you played at the Woodstock festival. But I enjoyed dressing up in bizarre costumes. I never really felt like I was a rock’n’roll guy anyway. My mom made me a Superman suit, and I wore it under my clothes when I was in school. I thought: “Well, I already look pretty strange to begin with”. Glam was happening then – Alice Cooper, David Bowie. Edgar and Johnny Winters band knew how to play the song Johnny B Goode, so. All The Lonely People, Caste, Red White & Blues Band, Frost, Train, Wilson Mower Pursuit, James Gang, Fabulous Counts, 3rd Power, Sun-Ra, Johnny Winter. Looking back at the seventies, how do you view your image now? The new album will feature and all star cast of musicians including and. It features Edgar Winter (vocals), Joe Bonamassa (slide guitar), Sean Hurley (bass) & Gregg Bissonette (drums). His label debut, Roots, appeared in 2011. 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. An exceptionally talented blues and slide guitarist, beginning in the 1960s and stretching into the 21st century. “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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