Hearken to Taylor Hawkins Sing on Edgar Winter’s ‘Guess I’ll Go Aw

Late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins is heard on a canopy of the Johnny Winter music “Guess I’ll Go Away,” which seems on Brother Johnny, Edgar Winter’s new tribute album to his sibling.

It’s the primary music to function Hawkins since his demise final month on the age of fifty.

Edgar Winter described the music as “a tribute inside a tribute,” referring to the truth that, like Hawkins, his brother Johnny was discovered lifeless in his lodge room throughout a tour (in 2014). “It’s such an odd happenstance,” Edgar informed ABC Audio. “I imply, right here’s a man that’s singing a tribute music to my brother, Johnny, and he sings the music after which … passes away himself. And in comparable circumstances. … It’s simply weird and really compelling.” You may hear the music under.

He stated he was glad he had the chance to satisfy Hawkins and hailed his “vitality” and “love of music.” “I wished a extra fashionable strategy to the vocal, somewhat than an old-school blues-style strategy, and that was good for Taylor,” Winter famous. “It’s in all probability one in all his final performances, and it means the world to me to have him on the music.”

Brother Johnny – which is out immediately – was assembled over a number of years and options visitor appearances by Joe Walsh, Billy Gibbons, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald and others. Saying the undertaking, Edgar Winter stated he’d been requested many instances to think about making it however struggled with the concept: “My spouse Monique, whose instinct I belief greater than my very own, stated, ‘I feel it’s a must to make this album, each for Johnny, for your self, and for the world. You owe that acknowledgment to your older brother. If it weren’t for him, you wouldn’t be the place you might be immediately.’”