Of all of Winwood's albums, this--the one with "While You See A Chance"--comes the closest to capturing the melodic fervor of his earliest days in...
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Utterly unencumbered by the baggage of his long years in the music business, Winwood reinvents himself as a completely contemporary artist on this outstanding album, leading...
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Turning to involved percussion tracks and horns, Winwood turns another musical corner on this sophisticated album, which contains echoes of everything from gospel to...
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Steve Winwood's Chronicles presents an extremely brief overview of his material, beginning with Arc of a Diver and including tracks from 1982's Talking Back to the Night and...
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The key to Steve Winwood's solo career is inconsistency. After he dashed the extravagant expectations built up by his group years with the disappointing debut album Steve...
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Roll With It 1/1/1998, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Winwood's Virgin Records debut cost his new label plenty of bucks--and was it worth it? Ask Junior "Roll With It"...
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Roll With It 1/1/1988, Yahoo! Music, Dave DiMartino
Winwood's Virgin Records debut cost his new label plenty of bucks--and was it worth it? Ask Junior "Roll With It"...
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Winwood manages to reintroduce some of the R&B elements of the Spencer Davis Group and some of the psychedelic effects of early Traffic here, though this is also an...
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A respectable follow-up to Arc Of A Diver, this seems plagued by a too-shallow, bottomless sound. Still: contains "Valerie," which would become a hit years...
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Steve Winwood has led a long and varied career, recording everything from straight R&B and jazz-flavored rock to folk and pop. Over the course of four discs, The Finer...
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This volume of 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection may have been released under Steve Winwood's name, but that's slightly misleading. True, he does sing lead on...
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It seemed a pity that Steve Winwood might best be remembered by a generation that came of age in the '80s for slick MOR pop like "Higher Love." The latter tune can of course...
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Steve Winwood took an extended break after the ignoble flop of 1997's Junction Seven, resurfacing on his own indie label Wincraft six years later with About Time. Where his...
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