AlphaBands Week V: E is for Edgar Winter Group

Edgar Winter is a blues and rock artist whose popularity peaked in the early 1970s.  He sings and plays multiple instruments such as the synthesizer, saxophone, keyboards, and drums.  He invented the keyboard strap, which he used to be able to remain mobile while tickling the ivories.  Edgar and his brother, Johnny, are both extremely talented musicians.  They're also know for the irony in their family name: they're both albinos.

One of Winter's early bands, The Edgar Winter Group, are best known for two songs which are featured in this drawing.  In fact, the two songs in question are so ubiquitous that most people have probably heard them hundreds of times but had no idea who performed them. 

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5…

The second song is an upbeat, funky rock anthem which is what the tollbooth offers...

Both of these songs appear on the band's 1972 album "They Only Come Out at Night," on which is a third song that inspired the name I gave the tollway.