I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight’s mystery came from a very musical family and as a kid thought that is how all families were. Think you know who it might be tonight??

Funny how it works that many times when a parent is musical like Steven Tyler’s or Eddie Van Halen’s were that musical children are the results. Tonight however, it is the Winter boys that we are referring to.

In an interview with Classic Rock Revisited Edgar Winter told this story about his musical upbringing, he said: “From a very early age, it was always easy for me to sing harmony. My father played guitar, and banjo, and he had a barber shop quartet. My mom played beautiful classical piano. My granddad played fiddle and my great-great grandfather played trumpet. Everybody in the family played something. It really was a family activity.

I didn’t realize until I started trying to put bands together around the neighborhood that this was rare. I thought everybody played music. I thought it was like learning to spell, or write, or read. I realized that it was something special, at that point.

When I was four years old, I don’t even remember this, my mother told me about this, Johnny and I went on this kid’s radio show called The Uncle Willie Show, and we played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs. Johnny graduated to guitar and it became apparent that he was going to be the guitar man in the family, and the blues man, so I just decided to play everything else.

I played electric bass for a while, then I switched to drums and then electric pianos came out, so I played that. In my teens, I dragged my father’s alto sax out of the attic and I got really interested in saxophone and jazz. I went thought this phase where I just loved Charlie Parker and all of the jazz guys. I’ve sort of maintained that interest. Music is a natural thing.”