Fantasy,” “Gimme Some Lovin',” “Rainmaker,” “Pearly Queen,” “Glad,” “Why Can’t We Live Together,” “40,000 Headmen,” “Walking In The Wind,” “Medicated Goo,” “John Barleycorn,” “While You See A Chance,” “Arc Of A Diver,” “Freedom Overspill,” and “Roll With It.”Įric Clapton, who left Cream to form Blind Faith with Steve Winwood, told us his desire to play with Winwood began during the Cream days: “If I'd had more power of personality and more authority, I would have insisted that we had a keyboard player, and I would've chosen Steve Winwood. The tracklisting for Winwood Greatest Hits Live is: “I’m A Man,” “Them Changes,” “Fly,” “Can’t Find My Way Home,” “Had To Cry Today,” “Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys,” “Empty Pages,” “Back In The High Life Again,” “Higher Love,” “Dear Mr. In September 2016, Steve Winwood released his latest live collection, Winwood Greatest Hits Live, which features healthy doses of his timeless work with Traffic, Blind Faith, the Spencer Davis Group - alongside his own classic solo hits. In 2012, Winwood's second solo album, 1980's Arc Of A Diver, was given the deluxe reissue treatment including a second bonus disc including rare tracks, along with the BBC Radio 2 documentary entitled Arc Of A Diver: The Steve Winwood Story. The duo tore through the Clapton classics “Forever Man”, “Cocaine,” “Double Trouble” and “After Midnight” - along with such Winwood and Traffic favorites as “Dear Mr. The set, which features tracks recorded during the pair's two-date New York City stand in February 2008, includes such favorites from Blind Faith's first and last album, including “Had To Cry Today,” “Presence Of The Lord,” “Sleeping In The Ground” and “Well, All Right.” In 2009, Winwood and Clapton released the deluxe CD/ DVD Clapton & Winwood: Live From Madison Square Garden. The album received good reviews and featured Clapton's guitar work on the lead single “Dirty City.” In 2008 Winwood released his first new album in five years, called Nine Lives. That band lasted less than a year, after which Winwood reformed Traffic.īy 1977, Traffic had split again and Winwood kicked off a more pop-oriented solo career, racking up numerous hits over the next decade, with such songs as “While You See A Chance,” “Talking Back To The Night,” “Back In The High Life,” “Higher Love,” “The Finer Things,” “Valerie,” “Freedom Overspill” and “Roll With It,” among others. Winwood then hooked up with former Cream members Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker, as well as former Family member Rick Gretch, to form the short-lived supergroup Blind Faith. The group released two albums before breaking up. In 1967, he quit the Spencer Davis Group to form the more experimental Traffic with former Spencer Davis Group roadie Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi and Chris Wood. Though Spencer Davis led the band, Winwood was the group's unmistakable star, and hits like “Gimme Some Lovin'” and “I'm A Man” established Winwood, then called “Little Stevie Winwood,” as one of the most popular singers in Britain, and was often referred to as the “white” Ray Charles. Two years later, the band released their debut album, titled Their First LP. Steve Winwood has been a working musician nearly all of his life having joined the Spencer Davis Group band in 1963 at the age of 15. In 2021, Winwood teamed up with Santana for a cover of Procol Harum's “Whiter Shade Of Pale,” which was featured on the band's Blessings And Miracle collection. Last year, the keyboard legend contributed to the late- Christine McVie's solo album, Songbird, offering up piano and backing vocals to their co-write, “Ask Anybody.” Happy Birthday to the great Steve Winwood who celebrates his 75th birthday today (May 12th)!!! This past May 7th, Winwood made his first live appearance since 2019, when he performed “Higher Love” at England's Windsor Castle for King Charles' Coronation Concert.
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