7/5/2023 0 Comments Rock and roll johnny winter![]() ![]() Somehow, this just didn’t feel right to me. Īs Winter explains his extensive liner notes to Brother Johnny, the time was right to honor his brother, writing “now after his passing, many people immediately started trying to convince me to do a Johnny Winter tribute album. Winter has recently been touring as part of Ringo Starr’s All Starr Band, but took some time to record a fitting tribute to his late brother with the recently-released Brother Johnny. Whereas Johnny stayed true to the blues over the years, Edgar’s career has careened from blue-eyed soul and rock ‘n’ roll to jazz and New Age music over the course of a couple dozen albums since he began his solo career in 1970. The Winter brothers often played on each other’s recordings, but only released a single album credited to both of them, 1976’s appropriately-tagged Together, a live set of rock, blues, and soul covers. Both brothers enjoyed lengthy, moderately-successful, and critically-acclaimed careers and although Johnny passed away in 2014 at 70 years old while touring in support of his then-current album Step Back, Edgar is still rocking to this day at 75 years young. In other words, the entire region was steeped in R&B, country, and blues music and that’s the creative environment that Johnny and Edgar Winter grew up in, and were influenced by. Country music stars George Jones, Clay Walker, and Tracy Byrd were all born down the road a piece in Vidor, Texas.īluesman Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown hailed from nearby Orange, and sister city Port Arthur can boast of talents like Janis Joplin and zydeco bandleader C.J. Richardson (“The Big Bopper”), and R&B crooner Barbara Lynn. Gospel-blues giant Blind Willie Johnson once roamed the city’s streets bassist Larry Graham (Sly & the Family Stone) was born there, as was early rocker J.P. The city rapidly became an oil industry boomtown (ExxonMobil remains one of Beaumont’s largest employers) and one of America’s major petrochemical refining hubs.Īlthough its population has never really topped 120,000 residents (and it was half that when the Winter brothers came into this world), Beaumont has surprisingly produced an impressive number of great musicians. ![]() 40 in February.Edgar Winter 2022 (Image: Quarto Valley Records)Įdgar Winter, along with his older brother Johnny, were born in Beaumont, Texas in the 1940s, close enough to the Louisiana state line that you can practically smell the gumbo pot bubbling over.Ī port city on the Gulf of Mexico, Beaumont’s economy was based on agriculture (rice, notably) and shipbuilding until oil was discovered in the area in 1901. Preceding single “Lux Æterna” reigned for 11 weeks beginning in December, while fellow teaser song “Screaming Suicide” (not promoted to radio) spent one week on the tally at No. It’s Metallica’s 26th top 10, placing the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers in a tie with Van Halen for the sixth-most since the chart began in 1981. “72 Seasons” jumps 8-6 on the latest Mainstream Rock Airplay survey. Twelve songs at once on Hot Hard Rock Songs is the most since the chart’s 2020 inception, surpassing Deftones‘ 10 songs on the Oct. It’s led by the title track and current radio single, which leaps 12-2 thanks to 2.7 million radio audience impressions, 2.4 million official U.S. The band adds its 12th top 10 on the chart, a run that began with …And Justice for All in 1988.Ĭoncurrently, multiple songs from Seasons reach Billboard song charts, with the entire album’s tracklist infusing Hot Hard Rock Songs. 2, behind Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time, which earned 166,000 units. On the all-genre, mult-metric Billboard 200, Seasons debuts at No. 1 thanks to 43,000 first-week vinyl copies sold, marking the group’s sixth champ, tying the band with The Beatles and Jack White for the second-most, after Taylor Swift with nine. 1 on Top Album Sales with its 134,000-unit sales count, becoming Metallica’s eighth leader dating to 1991’s self-titled album. 1 on both Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums. It’s the biggest since Tool’s Fear Inoculum soared in with 270,000 units on the Sept. The new set’s 146,000-unit start marks the best single-week sum on Top Rock & Alternative Albums this decade. 1 in 20’s Metallica upon its 30th anniversary. The rockers first ruled with Death Magnetic in 2008 and then with 2016’s Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (the band’s last proper LP prior to Seasons) and 2020’s S&M2 with the San Francisco Symphony, along with a first week at No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, which began in 2006. Of that sum, 134,000 units were via album sales. In its first tracking week (April 14-20), Seasons earned 146,000 equivalent album units, according to Luminate. Metallica, Waterparks, Yung Bleu & Prof Bow in Top 10 on Album Sales Chart
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