Obviously, these are not guitarists exclusively but all contributed to create almost 75 minutes of blistering blues in memory of the Texas guitar-slinger.Ī big bonus here is that you get a multi-level experience if you’re fans of both Johnny and Edgar because this is not only a wonderful collection of Johnny’s most loved tunes, faithfully performed, but it’s also an album full of really fine performances by Edgar! Eight songs feature Edgar’s vocals - and I can dispel any possible doubts right now: he’s still got it! The Winter brothers shared similar vocal timbres, with Edgar being the more flexible and jazzy of the two, and there are times on the album where the similarity is startling.
Among those paying homage to the musical legacy of Johnny Winter are: Joe Bonamassa, Doyle Bramhall II, John McFee, Robben Ford, Billy Gibbons, David Grissom, Taylor Hawkins, Warren Haynes, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, Keb Mo, Doug Rappoport, Bobby Rush, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ringo Starr, Derek Trucks, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Walsh, Phil X and Gregg Bissonette. One of the beautiful things about this project is that co-producers Edgar Winter and Ross Hogarth have assembled a set of musicians who obviously know and love the man’s musical legacy enough to have surrendered their own guitar voices to channel Johnny’s sound to an almost startling degree. Of course, the Johnny of the album’s title is none other than Johnny Winter, the legendary albino bluesman from Texas, whose raspy growling vocals and lightning-fast guitar work are instantly identifiable to any true blues-rock aficionado. Not only does Brother Johnny work as a tribute album, it stands on its own as a no-holds-barred all-star blues rock masterpiece. Edgar Winter’s Brother Johnny does something exceptional in the annals of tribute albums - it works. In many cases the original material is barely recognizable, and the artist being paid tribute to seems to have been lost somewhere in the mix. If it’s gonna’ be done right - you need to put it into the hands of the masters, and that’s what Edgar has done on Brother Johnny.Īll too often tributes, whether live events or recorded projects, turn out to be disjointed collections of ego-driven jams by artists haphazardly slapped together performing songs that that can hardly be imagined as real tributes at all.
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