Edgar Winter
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Edgar Holland Winter<ref name="Powerline">Template:Cite web</ref> (born December 28, 1946)<ref name="Madhouse">Template:Cite web</ref> is an American multi-instrumentalist,<ref name="Hawaii">Template:Cite news</ref> working as a vocalist along with playing keyboards, saxophone, and percussion.<ref name="Louder">Template:Cite web</ref> His success peaked in the 1970s with his band the Edgar Winter Group and their popular songs "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride".<ref name=GL>Template:Cite web</ref> He is the brother of late blues singer and guitarist Johnny Winter.
Early life
Winter was born to John Winter II and Edwina Winter on December 28, 1946, in Beaumont, Texas.<ref name="LarkinBlues">Template:Cite book</ref> Both he and his elder brother Johnny were born with albinism.<ref name="LATimesJWObit">Template:Cite news</ref> By the time he left the family home, Winter had mastered numerous instruments and reading and writing music.<ref name="Official">Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Winter composed and performed songs of numerous genres, including rock, jazz, blues, and pop.<ref name="Official"/> His critically acclaimed<ref name="Official"/> 1970 debut release, Entrance,<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> was first to demonstrate his unique style of genre-blending musicianship. His early recording of "Tobacco Road" gained attention. Edgar followed Entrance with two hit albums backed by his group White Trash, a group originally composed of musicians from Texas and Louisiana. White Trash, with Winter and Jerry Lacroix both on lead vocals and sax,<ref name="DiscogsTrash">Template:Cite web</ref> released the studio album Edgar Winter's White Trash,<ref name="AtticRecords">Template:Cite web</ref> in 1971. It reached #111 on the charts,<ref name="Billboard">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and 1972's follow-up album (partially recorded at New York's Apollo Theater) Roadwork achieved gold status.<ref name="LarkinBlues"/>
In late 1972, Winter brought together Dan Hartman, Ronnie Montrose and Chuck Ruff to form The Edgar Winter Group,<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> who created such hits as the number one "Frankenstein"<ref name="RollingStone">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and "Free Ride" (with lead vocals by its writer Hartman).<ref name="NaplesNews">Template:Cite news</ref> Released in November 1972, They Only Come Out at Night,<ref name="LarkinBlues"/> peaked at the number 3 position on the Billboard Hot 200<ref name="Billboard"/> and stayed on the charts for 80 weeks. It was certified gold in April 1973 by the RIAA,<ref name="The Book of Golden Discs">Template:Cite book</ref> and double platinum in November 1986.<ref name="AOTY">Template:Cite web</ref>
Winter invented the keyboard body strap<ref name="Powerline" /> early in his career, an innovation that allows him the freedom to move around on stage during his multi-instrument high-energy performances.<ref name="Official" />
After They Only Come Out at Night, Winter released Shock Treatment, featuring guitarist Rick Derringer in place of Ronnie Montrose.<ref name="Philharmonic">Template:Cite web</ref> That album contained Winter's third and final Top 40 single "River's RisinTemplate:' ",<ref name="Billboard"/> again sung by Hartman.<ref name="WolfgangsRiver">Template:Cite web</ref> Later albums included Jasmine Nightdreams, The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer, Together, Recycled, a reunion with White Trash, Standing on Rock, Mission Earth, Live in Japan, Not a Kid Anymore, The Real Deal, Winter Blues and Rebel Road.<ref name="Discography">Template:Cite web</ref>
Winter also kept busy doing session work, playing saxophone on Meat Loaf's "All Revved Up with No Place to Go",<ref name="MeatloafLiner">Template:Cite AV media notes</ref> Dan Hartman's solo hit "Instant Replay",<ref name="2ndDiscReplay">Template:Cite web</ref> Tina Turner's "Simply the Best"<ref name="TurnerBestDiscogs">Template:Cite web</ref> and David Lee Roth's remake of "Just a Gigolo",<ref name="VanHalenNews">Template:Cite web</ref> as well as appearing on material by Rick Derringer,<ref name="DerringerInterv">Template:Cite web</ref> Johnny Winter,<ref name="Secondhand">Template:Cite web</ref> Ronnie Montrose,<ref name="Montrose">Template:Cite web</ref> Todd Rundgren,<ref name="DoorsTrib">Template:Cite web</ref> Michael McDonald<ref name="DiscogsMcDonald">Template:Cite web</ref> and many others.
Major national television and radio campaigns have used Winter's music to advertise their products.<ref name="IMDBEdgarOther">Template:Cite web</ref> Winter has also made frequent television appearances, both to promote his music and to give his opinions, on shows such as Politically Incorrect.<ref name="CorbettInterview">Template:Cite journal</ref> Winter also starred with George Hamilton in a commercial for Miller Lite beer.<ref name="VintageInterview">Template:Cite web</ref> He appeared in the film Netherworld<ref name="IMDBMain">Template:Cite web</ref> and the TV shows The Cape,<ref name="Official"/> Mysterious Ways,<ref name="AudioDB">Template:Cite web</ref> Late Show with David Letterman,<ref name="RockAtNight">Template:Cite web</ref> and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.<ref name="IMDBKimmel">Template:Cite web</ref>
Winter's music has been used in many film and television projects, including Netherworld, Air America, Dazed and Confused, My Cousin Vinny, Encino Man, Son in Law, What's Love Got to Do with It, Wayne's World 2, Starkid, Wag the Dog, Knockabout Guys, Duets, Radio, The Simpsons, Queer as Folk, and Tupac: Resurrection.<ref name="IMDBMain"/> Tupac: Resurrection, a biography of rapper Tupac Shakur, produced and co-written by Eminem,<ref name="IMDBRessurection">Template:Cite web</ref> sampled Winter's song "Dying to Live" as "Runnin' (Dying to Live),"<ref name="WhoSampledTupac">Template:Cite web</ref> incorporating vocals by the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and Winter himself. "RunninTemplate:' " peaked at number 5 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles Sales chart and the soundtrack was #1 for 8 consecutive weeks.<ref name="BillboardTupac">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Blues performer Jonny Lang also covered "Dying to Live"<ref name="SecondLang">Template:Cite web</ref> around this time. Winter performed the song solo at the piano on Jimmy Kimmel Live!Template:Citation needed
Winter's 2003 CD and DVD titled Live at the Galaxy was recorded live at the Galaxy Theatre for Classic Pictures.<ref name="DiscogsGalaxy">Template:Cite web</ref> It features the songs, "Keep Playing That Rock and Roll", "Turn on Your Love Light", "Free Ride", "Texas", "Show Your Love", "New Orleans", "Frankenstein" and "Tobacco Road".<ref name="AllMusicGalaxy">Template:Cite web</ref> In addition, the DVD includes a 30-minute documentary, Edgar Winter: The Man and His Music.<ref name="Philharmonic" />
Winter also played with Ringo Starr in the ninth (2006), tenth (2008), eleventh (2010-2011) and fifteenth (2022-) iterations of his All-Starr Band.<ref name="AllStarHist">Template:Cite web</ref> The band's 2010–11 tour featured the reunion of Winter and Rick Derringer.<ref name="Bosso">Template:Cite web</ref> From August to early-September 2017, The Edgar Winter Band toured as the opening act for both Deep Purple and Alice Cooper as they performed several North American tour dates as part of The Long Goodbye Tour.<ref name="GlideTour">Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2017, Cherry Red released a remastered four-CD compilation of all of the Edgar Winter solo albums from 1970 until 1980, entitled Tell Me in a Whisper: The Solo Albums 1970–1980.<ref name="DiscogsSolo70">Template:Cite web</ref> In 2018, Cherry Red also released a remastered six-CD compilation of Winter's White Trash band and the Edgar Winter Group band albums entitled I've Got News for You: Featuring the Edgar Winter Group & Edgar Winter's White Trash 1971–1977.<ref name="CherryRed">Template:Cite web</ref>
Mission Earth
Winter also produced, arranged, and performed on the 1986 album Mission Earth.<ref name="DiscogsEarth">Template:Cite web</ref> This album's lyrics and music were written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.<ref name="AllMusicMission">Template:Cite web</ref> Hubbard is said to have left detailed instructions and audio tapes for the musicians and producers to follow when making the album.<ref name="HubbardMusic">Template:Cite book</ref> Winter described Mission Earth as "both a return to rock's primal roots and yet highly experimental." Winter wrote, "Ron's technical insight of the recording process was outstanding."<ref name="Bunker">Template:Cite web</ref> Winter also described Hubbard's delineation of counter-rhythm in rock as something "which was nothing short of phenomenal, particularly in as much as it had then been entirely unexplored and only later heard in the African-based rhythms of Paul Simon's work, some five years after Ron's analysis."<ref name="AudioDB" />
Personal life
Winter and his wife, Monique,<ref name="Spectrum">Template:Cite web</ref> live in Beverly Hills, California.<ref name="Official"/> The couple have no children.<ref name="Madhouse" /> Winter stated in an interview: "I can see how that would be a wonderful rewarding thing, but I think there are enough people in the world" and that "it might have been more problematical if I had children with a career and all of it. I tour all the time. If I were to have children, I would want to be home all the time."<ref name="Flaska">Template:Cite web</ref>
Discography
Solo albums
| Year | Name | US Top 200 <ref name="Awards">Template:Cite web</ref> | |||||
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| 1970 | Entrance | 196 | |||||
| 1975 | Jasmine Nightdreams | 69 | |||||
| 1979 | The Edgar Winter Album | – | |||||
| 1981 | Standing on Rock | – | |||||
| 1985 or 1986 or 1989 (disputed) | Mission Earth | – | |||||
| 1994 | Not a Kid Anymore | – | |||||
| 1996 | The Real Deal | – | |||||
| 1999 | Winter Blues | – | |||||
| 2003 | Live at the Galaxy | – | |||||
| 2004 | Jazzin' the Blues | – | |||||
| 2008 | Rebel Road | – | |||||
| 2022 | Brother Johnny | – | |||||
| "–" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||
Edgar Winter's White Trash albums
| Year | Name | Peak chart positions | Notes | ||||
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Can Top 100 | ||||||
| 1971 | Edgar Winter's White Trash | 111 | 82 | ||||
| 1972 | Roadwork | 23 | – |
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| 1977 | Recycled | – | – | ||||
| "–" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||
Edgar Winter Group albums
| Year | Name | Peak chart positions | Notes | ||||
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| 1972 | They Only Come Out at Night | 3 | 28 | 4 |
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| 1974 | Shock Treatment | 13 | – | 9 |
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| 1975 | The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer | 124 | – | – | |||
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Edgar Winter Compilation albums
| Year | Name | Peak chart positions | Notes | ||
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| 1989 | The Edgar Winter Collection | – | – | – | |
| 2002 | The Best of Edgar Winter | – | – | – | |
| 2014 | Playlist: The Very Best of Edgar Winter | – | – | – | |
| 2016 | The Essential Edgar Winter [AKA The Definitive Collection] | – | – | – | 2-CD set |
| 2017 | Tell Me in a Whisper: The Solo Albums 1970–1980 | – | – | – | 4-CD set |
| 2018 | I've Got News for You (1971–1977) | – | – | – | 6-CD set |
Albums with other artists
| Year | Name | US Top 200 <ref name="Awards"/> | |||||
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| 1976 | Together with Johnny Winter (live) | 89 | |||||
| 1990 | Edgar Winter & Rick Derringer: Live in Japan | – | |||||
| 2007 | Edgar, Johnny Winter & Rick Derringer Live | – | |||||
| 2010 | An Odd Couple with Steve Lukather (live) | – | |||||
| "–" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||||
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certification | Album | |||||
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| 1970 | "Tobacco Road" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Entrance | |
| 1971 | "Where Would I Be" | 128 | – | – | – | – | – | Edgar Winter's White Trash | |
| "Give It Everything You Got" | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| "Keep Playin' That Rock 'n' Roll" | 70 | – | 51 | – | – | – | |||
| 1972 | "I Can't Turn You Loose" | 81 | – | – | – | – | – | Roadwork | |
| "Round & Round" | 108* | – | – | – | – | – | They Only Come Out at Night | ||
| 1973 | "Frankenstein" | 1 | 19 | 1 | 39 | 10 | 18 |
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| "Free Ride" | 14 | 84 | 8 | – | – | – | |||
| "Hangin' Around" | 65 | – | 39 | – | – | – | |||
| "We All Had a Real Good Time " | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1974 | "River's RisinTemplate:' " | 33 | – | 61 | – | – | – | Shock Treatment | |
| "Easy Street" | 83 | – | 79 | – | – | – | |||
| "Someone Take My Heart Away" | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1975 | "One Day Tomorrow" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Jasmine Nightdreams | |
| "Little Brother" | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| "I Always Wanted You" | 129* | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| "People Music" | – | – | – | – | – | – | The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer | ||
| 1976 | "Diamond Eyes" | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| "Let The Good Times Roll" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Together | ||
| 1977 | "Stickin' It Out" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Recycled | |
| 1979 | "Above & Beyond" | – | – | – | – | – | – | The Edgar Winter Album | |
| "It's Your Life to Live" | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 1981 | "Love Is Everywhere" | – | – | – | – | – | – | Standing on Rock | |
| 1983 | "Frankenstein 1984"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | – | – | – | – | – | – | Single only | |
| 1989 | "Cry Out"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | – | – | – | – | – | – | Mission Earth | |
| 2000 | "Texas"<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | – | – | – | – | – | – | Winter Blues | |
| "–" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
"Above & Beyond" reached 94 on the US Dance chart in 1979. | |||||||||
Producer
- Open Fire – (1978) (Ronnie Montrose) producer, piano, harpsichord
- Crazy from the Heat – (1985) (David Lee Roth)
Awards
- Brother Johnny – (2023) Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album 65th Annual Grammy Awards
References
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