![]() ![]() But his piercingly evocative and utterly special music, and the successful career he has created with his incredible talent, are far from ordinary. George Winston comes off as a tremendously humble and even ordinary man, in both attitude and appearance. “You might just be goin’ on all day! No problem with me - I’m just drivin’ for 20 hours or so.” “I could go on all day if this is how I get to talk to George Winston,” I replied. It’ll be better when I get into Utah, probably.” ![]() “Sorry the call keeps dropping,” he told me several times. And what did he care most about? That his cell signal kept dropping out. Yep, just another musical genius tooling across America, playing his harmonica when he’s not on the phone with people like me, looking out at the vast landscapes passing by, waiting for the next brainstorm of miraculous Winstonesque music to waft through his mind. But he’d be stopping for the night in the first hotel he found, “when I get tired.” ![]() When we talked last week, Winston was cruising along in his rented Toyota on a highway somewhere in Nevada, soon to cross into Utah, only a mere 22 hours to go until he reached the Minnesota city of Rochester for his Saturday night performance at the Mayo Civic Center’s Presentation Hall. But therein lies the inherent humility and wonderful charm of the enigma that is George Winston. Yes, you may think that’s the way it would be. You’d think such a tremendously gifted, world-renowned talent like pianist George Winston would be jet setting from San Francisco to his next gig in Minnesota on a sleek private jet, a limo awaiting on the tarmac to whisk him away to a four star hotel, where his PR peeps would be there to escort him to a spacious suite and fans would be camping out in the hotel lobby hoping he’d deign to sign their weathered album covers of his new age classics like Autumnor December. ![]()
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