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| Revolutions - The Very Best Of Steve Winwood Island Records/UMe will release the definitive career retrospective of one of the all-time greats of rock 'n' roll on June 8, 2010. Entitled Revolutions - The Very Best Of Steve Winwood, it is a portrait of one of the most influential musicians in rock history, a singer-songwriter, peerless vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player. With tracklistings personally selected by Steve Winwood from his five decade career, Revolutions - The Very Best Of Steve Winwood will be available in two high quality formats: a single CD for the casual fan and a four CD deluxe box set including a 52 page book for the connoisseur, with sleevenotes by writer Dylan Jones. Also included in the four CD deluxe box set and single disc is a re-recorded version of "Spanish Dancer." Taken from his 1980 second solo album "Arc Of A Diver, " "Spanish Dancer" is written by Winwood and Academy Award winning lyricist Will Jennings and has become a staple of Winwood's live show. The new version of the song features a new vocal by Winwood recorded at his home studio on his farm in Gloucestershire and it is mixed by Grammy Award-winning New York producer and recording artist Ben Wisch, one of the US's most in-demand piano players. A child prodigy, Winwood first performed live on stage at the tender age of 8 in his father's traditional jazz band, and joined the Spencer Davis Group at 14. His stunning vocal style was compared to Ray Charles. He left Spencer Davis to form Traffic then later teamed up with Eric Clapton in Blind Faith at the tail-end of the Sixties. Arguably his biggest successes came with his solo work from the Seventies on. In his teens Winwood played in pick-up bands for touring blues legends including Muddy Waters, BB King, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Bo Diddley. In a career lasting nearly 50 years he has sold over 50 million albums and several of his songs have become standards, notably "Gimme Some Lovin'" (memorably covered in The Blues Brothers film), "Can't Find My Way Home, " "The Low Spark Of The High Heeled Boys, " "Higher Love" and "Roll With It." He has been awarded multiple Grammy Awards - for "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "Higher Love" (a US no 1 in '86) In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him number 33 in the 100 Best Singers Of All Time. Throughout his career, Steve Winwood has remained an in-demand session player, and has contributed to landmark albums by a huge array of artists including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joe Cocker, Lou Reed, George Harrison, Toots & The Maytals, Marianne Faithfull, John Martyn, David Gilmour, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, James Brown, Etta James, Talk Talk, Paul Weller, and Christina Aguilera among many others. Steve Winwood will perform at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival on June 26 in Chicago followed by a U.S. tour with Santana. Revolutions: The Very Best Of Steve Winwood full tracklistings are below: Revolutions: The Very Best Of Steve Winwood - Single CD: Gimme Some Lovin - Spencer Davis Group I'm A Man - Spencer Davis Group Forty Thousand Headmen - Traffic No Face No Name No Number - Traffic Dear Mr Fantasy - Traffic Low Spark Of The High Heeled Boys - Traffic Glad - Traffic Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith While You See A Chance - Steve Winwood Valerie - Steve Winwood Spanish Dancer - Steve Winwood **NEW RECORDING** The Finer Things - Steve Winwood Higher Love - Steve Winwood Back In The High Life - Steve Winwood Roll With It - Steve Winwood Dirty City - Steve Winwood Don't You Know What The Night Can Do - Steve Winwood Revolutions: The Very Best Of Steve Winwood - 4 CD Box Set ----------------------------- CD 1 Keep On Running Somebody Help Me Gimme Some Lovin' I'm A Man Paper Sun Coloured Rain No Face No Name No Number Heaven Is in Your Mind Smiling Phases Dear Mr Fantasy Pearly Queen Forty Thousand Headmen No Time To Live Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring Shanghai Noodle Factory Medicated Goo Withering Tree Well Alright Can't Find My Way Home Presence Of The Lord CD 2 Stranger To Himself John Barleycorn (Must Die) Glad Freedom Rider Empty Pages The Low Spark Of The High-Heeled Boys Rainmaker Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory Something New Walking In The Wind When The Eagle Flies Mozambique CD 3 Vacant Chair While you See A Chance Arc Of A Diver Spanish Dancer Night Train Valerie Higher Love Freedom Overspill Back In The High Life Again Don't You Know What the Night Can Do Spy In the House Of Love Different Light Dirty City CD 4 This Hammer Waltz For Lumumba When I Come Home Love In The Light Of Day There's A River Hold On The Morning Side Far From Home Holy Ground State Of Grace Why Can't We Live Together Domingo Morning write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Jazz News :: home page |