I just Thank Almighty God, this got recorded on Video so, we could ALL see their Greatness and Talent on full display! This footage is Ultra Rare and Precious. No one will ever witness another performance like this ever again.
Rdgar won a Grammy last year for the tribute album he made to honor Johnny who passed away in 2014. The album and each song on it is beautiful and many excellent artists appear on the album with Edgar. Get the album if you like this video - you will love it!!!!!!!!!
Johnny is one of the best blues guitar players (and rock players) of all time, with a voice that sends shivers down your spine. As you can see, Edgar can belt out a song as well. Johnny produced three Grammy-award winning albums for Muddy Waters, bringing him back from obscurity. He also won a post-humous Grammy for his own blues work in 2015 and was the first White man to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In 1969 he was given the largest recording contract to date at the time. Edgar, on keyboards, recorded Frankenstein, which was a "monster" of a hit in the '70's, and he plays I don't know how many instruments. Whenever Johnny needed another part to the band, Edgar just learned to play another instrument. Edgar is mesmerizing in concert and I peed my pants a little one of the four times I saw Johnny "Cool Daddy" Winter live. Johnny is my favorite all-time artist out of many and his influence in rock and blues can never be underestimated. He was 17 when he asked BB King if he could sit in with the band during a local performance and BB was not disappointed. He and Edgar performed in honkeytonks all around TX from the time they were in high school. As albinos, they are the whitest of the White. RIP, Johnny Winter. You are, and will always be, missed. Oh, and, if you get the chance, see Edgar now. He isn't getting any younger but he still blows fans out of their seats.
The Brothers are both Albino's........... That is why they are pale & have white hair....The lights make it look a yellow tone... This is my Era of Music...Im almost 65 & I still Love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So glad I’m a member of the boomer generation and this is our music. You can’t beat it. The more you dive in to these legends the more you will understand why many of us are unimpressed with the state of musicianship today. Edit: adding their father was a musician and from Mississippi. I think you can hear and feel that regional influence of soul and blues.
Johnny Winter is one of the greatest Blues guitarists to ever live! I don't know how more people do not know about that man. He's a Grammy winning artist and, produced Muddy Waters Grammy women albums as well! First non African-American to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. You should hear "Be Careful With a Fool" from this same concert.
@@kathcasey2090 that would be ... no. Edgar on the keyboard and sax... Johnny on the lead guitar (as usual). Tommy Shannon on bass. All excellent at what they do.
Not just 2 of The most soulful white boys there is, but Johnny and Edgar Winter are both born legally blind Albinos. Along with the Allmans, and the Van Halen's, they're some THE most gifted musicians of all time. Johnny was the only caucasian in the Bluesman's Hall of Fame for quite some time.
Talent galore! Johnny was the famous blues legend (r I p)and Edgar had his rock band 🎸 the Edgar Winter Group. They’re brothers from Texas… they’re albinos
I went to see Johnny a short time before he passed. They had to turn down the lights and carry him on stage. That's dedication to music! The concert was great!
My brother, who was an incredible lead guitarist and trying to "make it" during the 60s and 70s, went to England on tour with a band that shall remain nameless. He went to a club one night where Edgar was playing. He told me "I just jammed with Edgar Winter!". I asked him. how it went and he said "I kept up". As you can see, that is sayin' somethin'. Reply
Johnny Winter on guitar , Edgar Winter on organ , sax , and vocals ! Albino brothers that grew up in Texas , they studied every instrument they could , and got very good at them all ! Need to check out Edgar Winter doing FRANKENSTEIN live , and then check out Johnny Winter doing DIVIN DUCK , live from ROCKPALEST !!! Both will blow your mind at how talented these guys are ! And yes , they did grow up around the church , you noticed in this song . Never saw Edgar , but I seen Johnny three times before he passed away , the last time was about two weeks before he passed away , at 70 years old , he was still amazing !!!!
The last time was at Van Guard Arts , not sure about that spelling , it a small concert hall in Sioux City , Iowa , the time before that was at The Horseshoe Casino , in Council Bluffs , Iowa ! He would stop on his way across the country , up and the east coast , bounce across the country , up and down the west coast , bounce across the country to go back over seas .
Amazing Blues brothers, the white hair is natural they are Albinos, Johnny and Edgar Winter belting it out here. Saw them live in a small venue Massey Happy in 1970's years ago and the sound made the rafter rock. They are great individually as well
Brother welcome! This is what I grew up on. Johnny Winter wax the first white blues man inducted in the Blues Hall of fame 1988! Edgar is amazing……best brothers in the business! RIP Johnny 🙏
Young white kids loved the blues, learned to play the blues, and literally saved the blues from extinction, while rejuvenating the careers of bluesmen like BB King, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, and dozens more black artists who were ignored by the black community that was "tired" of the blues. Artists like Johnny Winter raised the blues to new heights and led to the black man's invention to become the default world music. this was over fifty years ago. Please react to "Meantown Blues" by Johnny Winter, live at Woodstock, great reaction, new sub.
He’s never seen hair like this because he wasn’t around in the 1970s like us old folks were. But the Winters brothers being albino and having natural white hair makes them look even more dramatic
Johnny started out recording singles on tiny labels in Texas. I cannot remember his name, but Britain's "premier" blues aficionado at the time came across a few and traveled to the US to find that voice. When he met Johnny in Abilene, his first comment was, "Oh, you're white. My records are worthless!"
Great music is great music. No matter the way some looks. I know what you’re saying and sometimes we are surprised. That’s the best part of being different.
As awesome as Edgar is... and he is undoubtably awesome... Johnny is widely considered one of the 100 greatest guitarists that have ever walked on this planet. The Winters brothers are special. A rabbit hole that is deep and wonderful to explore.
I’ve seen Johnny Winter live many times. He was in starting in the late 70s until the last time he played at Memphis In May Festival. He played 3 times at Juanita’s that was up close & personal. Very small venue, but he loved it there. I’m from Arkansas.
They say johnny and Edgar could play any instrument put in front of them. They were legally blind and could not go outside so they played music. Their whole extended family were musicians.
The guitarist Johnny Winter is a true guitar great. He is up there with SRV, Hendrix, Clapton, Cray, etc... Edgar really shines in this video and his group is really great but if you like classic rock blues, Johnny Winter is a must listen.
Johnny Winters has played with Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and everybody He is a legendary bluesman, and Edgar is phenomenal...PLEASE check out Edgar Winters playing 'Frankenstein' live!!! your mind will be blasted good!
I am glad Youngster LOL you are discovering the guys I call lovingly,The two Texas Blonde Boys" 50 years ago I MCd a rock Concert in South Florida With The Grateful Dead but when Johnny and Edgar showed up all they wanted shoed up they just wanted to jam with the Dead as did the next act Carlos Santana. I had been Diggin' on Johnny long before that too. Maybe the most amazing Saturday afternoon of my life with two Amazing artists.
I saw Edgar Winter (keyboard, sax player) in Augusta, GA, in the '90s, the same city where Tobacco Road is located. It was absolutely fantastic. I'm a huge fan of Edgar and Johnny Winter.
I'm white and I've been listening to brothers Johnny (guitar) and Edgar (sax and vocals) for... decades. I haven't heard Edgar's growling quite like that before. Johnny and his amazing guitar playing gets the most plays. It helps my ears having grown up in Oakland and dancing as a kid to my cousin's Boogie Woogie piano playing during the holidays.... Play on. Keep up your Reaction picks.
right around '69 ...they were both working as studio musicians...johnny put out album 1 and 2...he was at woodstock '69 ...the real deal...that was when musicians had to be there real deal...
Should hear the long version. Saw Johnny in a club in New Orleans in '81, slide guitar master, great blues! They were huge in the '70s. Johnny was at Woodstock. Watch Edgar do "Frankenstein" live, Edgar can play anything. ✌️
Hard to believe this was 52 yrs ago!.. (Netherlands 1970 I believe) and displays naked raw BBADNESS from these genius bros. Edgar was just growing in his long hair. Johnny had a page boy length hairstyle in his 1968 'hippy' debut album 'The Progressive Blues Experiment'. Love your React Mr. POLO! Very fun 😆
Late to the party. The singing you were blown away by is called 'scat singing', mostly done in jazz. They sing along with what they are playing on their instrument.
I saw Edgar with Leon Russell about '84 in Tampa, Florida. He was incredible! Always wanted to see Johnny. He played some mean Blues! Check him out. Highway '61 is a great place to start
These are bad boys !! Never a truer word spoken. I have to admit I knew nothing of Edgar - I'll have to look him up. I have always loved JW and he's one of those hugely underrated guitarists. I was sad the day he passed away. Let Me In is my favourite album I have of his.
J D Loudermilk is the songwriter and being from North Carolina and that was the state that grew the most tobacco so it makes sense that he used it for the title of the song
The man has iron vocal cords, he has to. That was some crazy jazz scat. They do NOTHING halfway, they're all in. I could see them playing in any blues/jazz joint anywhere.
Both Edgar and Johnny Winters can play many instruments. Edgar's just as good as John on the sax. Keyboards too. Yup, they got soul... And they is both as white as they can get! That white hair is their real hair!
Rock musicians re-discovered their blues roots in the late 60's. There was this absurd narrative back then about white people not being able to play the blues. Along came Johnny and Edgar, not just white but super-white. The "race" element never occurred to them, they just played awesome music. Edgar's first band was White Trash. Funny. "White" (Jewish actually) blues guitarist extraordinaire Mike Bloomfield called Johnny "The baddest m**********r on the planet." So much for "race" and blues. Blues was born of suffering. White people have suffered too. My ancestors, Irish Catholics, at one time had a lower social status than even Africans
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Welcome to the Big Beautiful Soul has NO Color Club.....ALL are Welcome.
Amen brother
I just Thank Almighty God, this got recorded on Video so, we could ALL see their Greatness and Talent on full display! This footage is Ultra Rare and Precious. No one will ever witness another performance like this ever again.
Johnny and Edgar are LEGENDS!
R.I.P. JOHNNY.....
Johnny and edgar, 2 most underrated musicians of all time. Both great!
I think you misspelled "genius"?
They're not underrated at all, what are you talking about...
Not underrated......but not acknowledged as they should be.
F THE HALL OF FAME😊
Rdgar won a Grammy last year for the tribute album he made to honor Johnny who passed away in 2014. The album and each song on it is beautiful and many excellent artists appear on the album with Edgar. Get the album if you like this video - you will love it!!!!!!!!!
Johnny is one of the best blues guitar players (and rock players) of all time, with a voice that sends shivers down your spine. As you can see, Edgar can belt out a song as well. Johnny produced three Grammy-award winning albums for Muddy Waters, bringing him back from obscurity. He also won a post-humous Grammy for his own blues work in 2015 and was the first White man to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In 1969 he was given the largest recording contract to date at the time. Edgar, on keyboards, recorded Frankenstein, which was a "monster" of a hit in the '70's, and he plays I don't know how many instruments. Whenever Johnny needed another part to the band, Edgar just learned to play another instrument. Edgar is mesmerizing in concert and I peed my pants a little one of the four times I saw Johnny "Cool Daddy" Winter live. Johnny is my favorite all-time artist out of many and his influence in rock and blues can never be underestimated. He was 17 when he asked BB King if he could sit in with the band during a local performance and BB was not disappointed. He and Edgar performed in honkeytonks all around TX from the time they were in high school. As albinos, they are the whitest of the White. RIP, Johnny Winter. You are, and will always be, missed. Oh, and, if you get the chance, see Edgar now. He isn't getting any younger but he still blows fans out of their seats.
And bassist Tommy Shannon along for the ride before he joined with SRV.
My dad RIP was the best air guitarist there ever was, always with Johnny in the background.
The Winter Brothers never got the coverage they deserved except for the people that actually heard/loved their music. Peace
Johnny Winter is the only White person inducted into the Blues Guitarist Hall of Fame!🔥🔥🔥❤ Amazing musicians ✨🌟✨🌟✨🌟✨
The Brothers are both Albino's........... That is why they are pale & have white hair....The lights make it look a yellow tone... This is my Era of Music...Im almost 65 & I still Love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mine too, I'll be 71 next month.
I'm another appreciator born in 1959. We had great music as teens.
I'm a young'in in comparison being born in '90. I just picked up Brother Johnny on vinyl. Will be cracking it open tomorrow.
As a musician I have come to find many of us are color blind.
So glad I’m a member of the boomer generation and this is our music. You can’t beat it. The more you dive in to these legends the more you will understand why many of us are unimpressed with the state of musicianship today.
Edit: adding their father was a musician and from Mississippi. I think you can hear and feel that regional influence of soul and blues.
Amen to that!!!
So fortunate to be in my 60's. I grew up on some great music.
We lost Johnny but I saw Edgar with Ringo Starr last summer so you don't have to be a boomer to see him. Young folks were allowed in.
Agreed! We had the BEST music.
Yes, Johnny Winter and his brother Edgar.....awesome talents....
Johnny Winter is one of the greatest Blues guitarists to ever live!
I don't know how more people do not know about that man. He's a Grammy winning artist and, produced Muddy Waters Grammy women albums as well!
First non African-American to be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.
You should hear "Be Careful With a Fool" from this same concert.
Hey Edgar, how many instruments can you play?
Edgar: "yes"
That was Johnny! Edgar was on base on this one. But he does a wicked synthesizer on "Frankenstein" among other instruments.
@@kathcasey2090 What are you talking about?! Edgar payed the keyboard, and saxs.
@@gra6649 - Wrong! In this video Johnny plays the sax and keyboard.
@@kathcasey2090 that would be ... no. Edgar on the keyboard and sax... Johnny on the lead guitar (as usual). Tommy Shannon on bass. All excellent at what they do.
@@kennygo8300 - Is that supposed to be funny Kenny?
Grew on their music. Edgar still playing gigs and powerful as ever while Johnny, rest his soul, remains in our memories forever. ❤
Not just 2 of The most soulful white boys there is, but Johnny and Edgar Winter are both born legally blind Albinos. Along with the Allmans, and the Van Halen's, they're some THE most gifted musicians of all time. Johnny was the only caucasian in the Bluesman's Hall of Fame for quite some time.
As it should be, you dont let color get in the way of appreciation of the talent. Right on!!!! Much respect
Talent galore! Johnny was the famous blues legend (r I p)and Edgar had his rock band 🎸 the Edgar Winter Group. They’re brothers from Texas… they’re albinos
Johnny was an incredible Rockin Bluesman!
Talent level off the charts
Johnny and Edgar were at the head of the line when they were handing out talent🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
I went to see Johnny a short time before he passed. They had to turn down the lights and carry him on stage. That's dedication to music! The concert was great!
My brother, who was an incredible lead guitarist and trying to "make it" during the 60s and 70s, went to England on tour with a band that shall remain nameless. He went to a club one night where Edgar was playing. He told me "I just jammed with Edgar Winter!". I asked him. how it went and he said "I kept up". As you can see, that is sayin' somethin'.
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I want to know who the band was.
Johnny Winter on guitar , Edgar Winter on organ , sax , and vocals ! Albino brothers that grew up in Texas , they studied every instrument they could , and got very good at them all ! Need to check out Edgar Winter doing FRANKENSTEIN live , and then check out Johnny Winter doing DIVIN DUCK , live from ROCKPALEST !!! Both will blow your mind at how talented these guys are ! And yes , they did grow up around the church , you noticed in this song . Never saw Edgar , but I seen Johnny three times before he passed away , the last time was about two weeks before he passed away , at 70 years old , he was still amazing !!!!
I would like to have seen him perform before he died.
Where did you see him?
The last time was at Van Guard Arts , not sure about that spelling , it a small concert hall in Sioux City , Iowa , the time before that was at The Horseshoe Casino , in Council Bluffs , Iowa ! He would stop on his way across the country , up and the east coast , bounce across the country , up and down the west coast , bounce across the country to go back over seas .
We're more in common than we are different. 💜
That I believe is a difference between simply playing a song and actually feeling it right down to your soul
Amazing Blues brothers, the white hair is natural they are Albinos, Johnny and Edgar Winter belting it out here. Saw them live in a small venue Massey Happy in 1970's years ago and the sound made the rafter rock. They are great individually as well
Definitely took us to church!
Brother welcome! This is what I grew up on. Johnny Winter wax the first white blues man inducted in the Blues Hall of fame 1988! Edgar is amazing……best brothers in the business! RIP Johnny 🙏
Johnny Winter, the guitar player, has passed away, but Edgar Winter (keyboard), is currently touring with former Beatle Ringo Starr's All-Star Band.
Young white kids loved the blues, learned to play the blues, and literally saved the blues from extinction, while rejuvenating the careers of bluesmen like BB King, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, and dozens more black artists who were ignored by the black community that was "tired" of the blues. Artists like Johnny Winter raised the blues to new heights and led to the black man's invention to become the default world music. this was over fifty years ago. Please react to "Meantown Blues" by Johnny Winter, live at Woodstock, great reaction, new sub.
I’m a longtime fan. I’ve seen Edgar and the white trash band and Edgar played many instruments! Johnny is one of the greatest guitarist!
Johnny and eager winter are both amazing musicians 😁❤
Edgar could play just about any instrument. These brothers were amazing, together and apart.
He’s never seen hair like this because he wasn’t around in the 1970s like us old folks were. But the Winters brothers being albino and having natural white hair makes them look even more dramatic
Johnny started out recording singles on tiny labels in Texas. I cannot remember his name, but Britain's "premier" blues aficionado at the time came across a few and traveled to the US to find that voice. When he met Johnny in Abilene, his first comment was, "Oh, you're white. My records are worthless!"
Great music is great music. No matter the way some looks. I know what you’re saying and sometimes we are surprised. That’s the best part of being different.
Im not offended. I would have thought they were black too.😃. Great reaction and your a great guy. ✌❤🎶🎶❤✌
Especially with that vocal SQUALL Edgar possesses!😊
I just hope you were listening to Johnny Winter’s guitar while the camera was on Edgar.
I just stumbled on this older reaction, I saw Jonny and Edgar in 74 or 75 headling Blossom. They great! They had a live album iirc call Road Work.
He can play any instrument, Amazing Player
Rest In Peace, Johnny Winter.
As awesome as Edgar is... and he is undoubtably awesome... Johnny is widely considered one of the 100 greatest guitarists that have ever walked on this planet. The Winters brothers are special. A rabbit hole that is deep and wonderful to explore.
I’ve seen Johnny Winter live many times. He was in starting in the late 70s until the last time he played at Memphis In May Festival. He played 3 times at Juanita’s that was up close & personal. Very small venue, but he loved it there. I’m from Arkansas.
Oh my goodness, how i have enjoyed the smile on Your face 😂😂😂, Best Reaction Ever🌹 God Bless and enjoy❤
I couldn't take my eyes off of your smile from start to end
They say johnny and Edgar could play any instrument put in front of them. They were legally blind and could not go outside so they played music. Their whole extended family were musicians.
White hair and pink eyes albino Johnny was one my all time favorite made you feel the music check out john Dawson Winter the 3rd
They are ALBINOS.....white hair, light eyes.
Saw them live back in the early 1970's. They really put on a show!
Johnny and Edgar could DO IT ALLL!!!
Soul resides in the heart, not in the skin. Great video, love seeing new blood discover and appreciate my generations music.
The guitarist Johnny Winter is a true guitar great. He is up there with SRV, Hendrix, Clapton, Cray, etc... Edgar really shines in this video and his group is really great but if you like classic rock blues, Johnny Winter is a must listen.
SRV is nowhere " up there" with Johnny
Johnny Winters has played with Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and everybody He is a legendary bluesman, and Edgar is phenomenal...PLEASE check out Edgar Winters playing 'Frankenstein' live!!! your mind will be blasted good!
One of the most epic live performances you'll ever see
Never be another!
Thank you from Texas , we love these two gentlemen.😉🇺🇸
I am glad Youngster LOL you are discovering the guys I call lovingly,The two Texas Blonde Boys" 50 years ago I MCd a rock Concert in South Florida With The Grateful Dead but when Johnny and Edgar showed up all they wanted shoed up they just wanted to jam with the Dead as did the next act Carlos Santana. I had been Diggin' on Johnny long before that too. Maybe the most amazing Saturday afternoon of my life with two Amazing artists.
hey man I appreciate your reactions and your attention to detail
Yay!!! It's my request
Edgar Winter concerts were crazy back in the day. Hard rock, blues, pop rock, church too!
I saw Edgar Winter (keyboard, sax player) in Augusta, GA, in the '90s, the same city where Tobacco Road is located. It was absolutely fantastic. I'm a huge fan of Edgar and Johnny Winter.
I'm white and I've been listening to brothers Johnny (guitar) and Edgar (sax and vocals) for... decades. I haven't heard Edgar's growling quite like that before. Johnny and his amazing guitar playing gets the most plays. It helps my ears having grown up in Oakland and dancing as a kid to my cousin's Boogie Woogie piano playing during the holidays.... Play on. Keep up your Reaction picks.
Edgar is still brilliant. Johnny was brilliant tpp. ☮️💟
Edger could play any instrument he picked up! Seen both these outstanding brothers in concert!
That vocal squall took me right to church now!!
A+ reaction….you respect the artists and I respect you
right around '69 ...they were both working as studio musicians...johnny put out album 1 and 2...he was at woodstock '69
...the real deal...that was when musicians had to be there real deal...
Should hear the long version. Saw Johnny in a club in New Orleans in '81, slide guitar master, great blues! They were huge in the '70s. Johnny was at Woodstock. Watch Edgar do "Frankenstein" live, Edgar can play anything. ✌️
I knew you would like this🤜💥🎶💥🎶💥🎶💥😎
Hard to believe this was 52 yrs ago!.. (Netherlands 1970 I believe) and displays naked raw BBADNESS from these genius bros. Edgar was just growing in his long hair. Johnny had a page boy length hairstyle in his 1968 'hippy' debut album 'The Progressive Blues Experiment'.
Love your React Mr. POLO! Very fun 😆
Late to the party. The singing you were blown away by is called 'scat singing', mostly done in jazz. They sing along with what they are playing on their instrument.
check out the version on edgar winters white trash live album
I saw Edgar with Leon Russell about '84 in Tampa, Florida. He was incredible! Always wanted to see Johnny. He played some mean Blues! Check him out. Highway '61 is a great place to start
These are bad boys !! Never a truer word spoken. I have to admit I knew nothing of Edgar - I'll have to look him up.
I have always loved JW and he's one of those hugely underrated guitarists. I was sad the day he passed away.
Let Me In is my favourite album I have of his.
Epic performance ‼️
I wasn’t lucky enough to see Edgar perform in person but I did see Johnny a few times-love him too!
J D Loudermilk is the songwriter and being from North Carolina and that was the state that grew the most tobacco so it makes sense that he used it for the title of the song
They were Albino and totally amazing. Watch Edgar do Frankenstein.
This is insanely insanely good.
I think he speaks in tounge .Unreal anyways. He is Gods music man.
Enjoy your reactions and I agree ☝️ with u 🥰
Yep... saw em in 74 in Atlanta.
This is the best live performance ever. Edgar just came out with a new album. Johnny died in 2014. They seee and are the best musicians ever.
I saw them live many times but together only once. They were and are amazing.
Thank you POLO for the affirmation I knew was for the two blondies. Loved them ever since high school.
Edgar Winter is a master at many instruments.
And could SANG!!!!
The man has iron vocal cords, he has to. That was some crazy jazz scat. They do NOTHING halfway, they're all in. I could see them playing in any blues/jazz joint anywhere.
Edgar Winter is singing and playing the keyboard.
Check out brother Johnny Winter self destructive blues or anything amazing talent
Both Edgar and Johnny Winters can play many instruments. Edgar's just as good as John on the sax. Keyboards too.
Yup, they got soul... And they is both as white as they can get! That white hair is their real hair!
Scat coming from that albino boy doing a classic
Johnny, on guitar, was a headliner at Woodstock.
Fuck yes dude. More Johnny Winter
I think that's Stevie Ray Vaughn's bassist, Tommy Shannon, in the back. He played with Johnny's band before SRV. Lil trivia for ya!
Johnny is the true 2 albino is one brown eye and one blue eye and is considered the fastest blues player out there
You have to hear Edgar's live album Roadwork.
I still have it....somewhere.
Badass record.
@@willjones6722 me too! :)
THAT'S HOW WE DO IT IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS!
EDGAR!!!!
Rock musicians re-discovered their blues roots in the late 60's. There was this absurd narrative back then about white people not being able to play the blues. Along came Johnny and Edgar, not just white but super-white. The "race" element never occurred to them, they just played awesome music. Edgar's first band was White Trash. Funny. "White" (Jewish actually) blues guitarist extraordinaire Mike Bloomfield called Johnny "The baddest m**********r on the planet." So much for "race" and blues. Blues was born of suffering. White people have suffered too. My ancestors, Irish Catholics, at one time had a lower social status than even Africans
Coolest ever. 💟☮️