For a period in the 1990s, December was in everyone's CD tower, often the only non-rock or rap album they owned.
sold over 3 million copies in the 1980s and 1990s, and its centerpiece was his interpretation of the traditional “Carol of the Bells.” Winston,, recorded his first album with John Fahey in the early 1970s, but it wasn’t until an encounter with Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman in the early 1980s that Winston found his audience. Ackerman recalled meeting Winston in a Santa Monica guitar shop and then heading over to his house to jam.
Winston’s interests lay in various regional American musical styles, like New Orleans stride piano and Hawaiian slack-key guitar, and his albums reflected that interest. They sounded impeccable, but you could imagine many of the compositions being played a hundred years ago or more in some Appalachian parlor.
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