![]() ![]() “I call what I do ‘rural folk.’ I could call it country, but that would be more confusing. It was a category Winston was quick to distance himself from, albeit without much success. His first album, 1972’s “Ballads and Blues,” made no impact.īut his next album, 1980’s pastoral “Autumn,” put him on the map, along with Windham Hill, the nascent Palo Alto record company that soon became one of the most successful independent labels in the nation.īoth he and Windham Hill became synonymous with New Age. He took piano lessons as a kid, then switched to organ after hearing the debut album by the Doors.īy the 1970s, Winston had turned to solo piano. 11, 1949, in Hart, Michigan, and grew up in grew up in Mississippi, Florida and Montana. If slack-key albums are available for people, then I’ve done my job.” ![]() “If people remember me for anything,” Winston said, “I hope it’s for helping to make slack-key as visible as other guitar traditions. More specifically, the music he championed on his Dancing Cat record label by such noted Hawaiian slack-key guitarists as Cyril Pahinui and Ray Kane. … I had the privilege of playing for you all, now let’s move on.”īut Winston, whose solo piano recordings made him the biggest-selling artist of the 1980s and ‘90s in the New Age category, did want to be remembered for other people’s music. “It takes about three generations to forget about everything, so I have no doubt I’ll be forgotten, and that’s good. Benny Goodman, who remembers him? Who even plays clarinet? “I have (it) in my will that there’s to be no funeral, only cremation. “I don’t want to be remembered,” he said. The soft-spoken pianist, who died Sunday from cancer at the age of 74, made that point very clear in a 1996 San Diego Union-Tribune interview. SAN DIEGO - Unlike many musicians who sold millions of album and drew devoted concert audiences for several decades, George Winston did not want to be remembered. ![]()
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