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May 19, 2009

Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood Mining a Rich Shared Past for Upcoming Tour

Duo adding to arsenal featured during their 2008 New York reunion
April 17, 2008

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May 12, 1999

This Day in Rock

Steve Winwood
October 30, 1997

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Nine Lives

The miracle of Steve Winwood's voice in the Sixties, on his churning R&B hits with the Spencer Davis Group and in the bucolic psychedelia of the first Traffic records, was that a white English teenager could sound so black and adult. The wonder of "I'm Not Drowning," the acoustic, rolling blues that...

2008 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Refugees of the Heart

1990

Roll With It

1988

Back In The High Life

1986

Talking Back To The Night

1982

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Boy wonder of British blues, Winwood powered through "Gimme Some Lovin' " (1966) and "I'm a Man" (1967) for the Spencer Davis Group, his Hammond organ played with banshee intensity and his soaring vocals sounding like a mod Ray Charles. The brain behind the bluesy elegance of Traffic, Winwood took dazzling guitar solos, and edged rock further into harmonic complexity, without capitulating to the c...

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