Edgar Winter's White Trash

AMG Review of Edgar Winter's White Trash

Michael B. Smith
All Music Guide

Perhaps one of his best-loved albums, Edgar Winter's White Trash combined funk, lues, R&B, and ock & roll to create one of the freshest sounds of the early '70s. Touching on gospel with "Fly Away" and "Save the Planet," Winter and his band cover all the bases, climbing into the lower end of the Top 40 with "Keep Playin' That Rock and Roll." Winter's hauntingly beautiful "Dying to Live," featuring some of his best piano work, serves as a valid anti-war statement, written at the height of the Vietnam era, and the remainder of the record is filled with genuine ock & roll/oogie-woogie/lues that will keep your head bobbing and your toes tapping.