![]() Goode” as the latter adds piano and alto sax. Walsh shares lead vocals (but leaves the guitar to David Grissom) with Edgar for “Johnny B. Shepherd lays down a sizzling solo on “Still Alive and Well” and Gibbons blasts off while dueling with Derek Trucks on a fiery “I’m Yours and I’m Hers,” an album highlight. The bulk of the generous hour and a quarter collection is packed with rugged, mostly rocking, and energized performances, clearly emotionally motivated, displaying the contributors’ love of the songs, vocals, and playing that made Winter’s blues based attack so iconic.īonamassa smokes on slide for the opening “Mean Town Blues” that explodes with the same passion and intensity Johnny exuded in his prime. The closing “End of the Line” is an earnest if somewhat sappy, string accompanied ballad about death that leaves the generally high voltage album off on a meditative moment. The acoustic Delta “Lone Star Blues” where he shares lead vocals with Keb’ Mo’ (who lays down multiple guitars), speaks in the first-person voice of Johnny recounting his life story from obscurity to an uncomfortable relationship with superstardom. Not surprisingly, Edgar plays on everything, takes lead vocals on about half the selections, and helped match songs with artists. Musicians who were either influenced by Johnny (Joe Bonamassa, Derek Trucks, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Doyle Bramhall ll, Warren Haynes), wanted to contribute-like fellow Texans Billy Gibbons, David Grissom-or peers like Bobby Rush and Joe Walsh, take turns on a batch of Winter classics, many of them covers that the guitarist crafted in his own style. The result is this heartfelt 17 track set, years in the making, which finds Edgar calling on a diverse group of high-profile stars to assist a core band that he helms. But after a few years, the younger Winter was encouraged by others, including his wife, to move forward with it. After Johnny Winter’s 2014 death, multi-instrumentalist brother Edgar, who had recorded and played with him often, felt that organizing a musical homage so close to his passing didn’t feel appropriate.
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