The Very Best Of Steve Winwood (Revolutions) [4CD-MP3][MJN]

Description :-

It was Steve Winwood’s bluesy holler – weathered beyond his tender years and
sounding like he hailed from Birmingham, Alabama rather than Birmingham, England
– that gave The Spencer Davis Group the edge over all the other British Invasion
groups plying sweaty, R&B-indebted rock’n’roll in the 1960s. Their Keep On
Running – a stomping blast of Stax-style soul – scored 17-year-old Winwood his
first number one single in 1965, beginning a career that would see him scooping
up Grammy Awards 20 years later and – thanks to Eric Prydz’s cheesy Call On Me
remodelling of Winwood’s 1987 hit Valerie – topping the singles charts as
recently as 2004.

Revolution opens with Keep On Running, and further essays Winwood’s tenure with
Spencer Davis via self-penned hits like Gimme Some Lovin’ and the fearsomely
funky, Hammond-drenched I’m a Man, both authentic enough to become R&B standards
in their own right. The precocious singer was restless, however, moving on in
1967 to form Traffic, whose ambitious fusion of rock, psychedelia, folk and jazz
reflected the mind-expanding times, showcasing Winwood’s growing sophistication
as both performer and songwriter. No longer merely aping his R&B heroes, he was
now delivering darkly powerful blues jams (Dear Mr Fantasy) and sitar-driven
episodes of paranoid acid-rock (the eerie, still-chilling Paper Sun).

Traffic eventually burned out in the mid-70s, and a newly-solo Winwood struggled
at first to recover his groove; early solo hit While You See a Chance finds him
toying with earnest pop melodies and synthesisers, but feels cloying and
sentimental, like a bad sitcom theme. 1985’s triple Grammy-winning Back In the
High Life album struck a better balance between his blues roots and the kind of
lucrative, expertly-tailored AOR contemporaries like Eric Clapton and Phil
Collins were then making. The gospel-tinged Higher Love (featuring Chaka Khan)
is fittingly ecstatic 80s blue-eyed soul, while the title-track, aided by James
Taylor, is a movingly-optimistic midlife rumination, Winwood reaching pop
maturity with a grace that eluded many of his contemporaries.

Dirty City, a slow-burning, bluesy jam with Clapton from 2008, rounds out the
solo set, and finds Winwood’s fire commendably undimmed 40 years on. The four-CD
box-set version of Revolutions examines his back-catalogue in great depth, but a
simultaneously released 16-track single-CD package is faultless, racing through
the highlights with the pace of a tightly-scripted Hollywood biopic.

Audio Format :- MP3 VBR (V2)

Tracklist :-

Disc #1/4

01. The Spencer Davis Group - Keep 2:48
On Running
02. The Spencer Davis Group - 2:04
Somebody Help Me
03. The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme 2:57
Some Lovin'
04. The Spencer Davis Group - I'm A 2:57
Man
05. Traffic - Paper Sun 4:15
06. Traffic - Coloured Rain 2:42
07. Traffic - No Face, No Name, No 3:32
Number
08. Traffic - Heaven Is In Your 4:17
Mind
09. Traffic - Smiling Phases 2:42
10. Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy 5:39
11. Traffic - Pearly Queen 4:20
12. Traffic - Forty Thousand 3:16
Headmen
13. Traffic - No Time To Live 5:19
14. Traffic - Who Knows What 3:14
Tomorrow May Bring
15. Traffic - Shanghai Noodle 5:04
Factory
16. Traffic - Medicated Goo 3:37
17. Traffic - Withering Tree 3:12
18. Blind Faith - Well All Right 4:27
19. Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way 3:17
Home
20. Blind Faith - Presence Of The 4:51
Lord

Disc #2/4

01. Traffic - Stranger To Himself 3:53
02. Traffic - John Barleycorn (Must 6:23
Die)
03. Traffic - Glad 7:01
04. Traffic - Freedom Rider 5:28
05. Traffic - Empty Pages 4:35
06. Traffic - The Low Spark Of High 12:26
Heeled Boys
07. Traffic - Rainmaker 7:44
08. Traffic - Shoot Out At The 6:02
Fantasy Factory
09. Traffic - Something New 3:16
10. Traffic - Walking In The Wind 6:46
11. Traffic - When The Eagle Flies 4:25
12. Traffic - Mozambique 4:26

Disc #3/4

01. Steve Winwood - Vacant Chair 6:52
02. Steve Winwood - While You See A 5:15
Chance
03. Steve Winwood - Arc Of A Diver 5:28
04. Steve Winwood - Spanish Dancer 6:10
2010
05. Steve Winwood - Night Train 7:50
06. Steve Winwood - Valerie 4:07
07. Steve Winwood - Higher Love 5:48
08. Steve Winwood - Freedom 4:16
Overspill
09. Steve Winwood - Back In The 4:24
High Life Again
10. Steve Winwood - Don't You Know 4:28
What The Night Can Do?
11. Steve Winwood - Spy In House Of 4:44
Love
12. Steve Winwood - Different Light 6:39
13. Steve Winwood - Dirty City 7:46
(Featuring Eric Clapton)

Disc #4/4

01. The Spencer Davis Group - This 2:18
Hammer
02. The Spencer Davis Group - Waltz 4:18
For Lumumba
03. The Spencer Davis Group - What 1:57
I Come Home
04. Traffic - Love 3:04
05. Steve Winwood - In The Light Of 9:42
Day
06. Steve Winwood - There's A River 4:42
07. Steve Winwood - Hold On 4:29
08. Steve Winwood - The Morning 5:12
Side
09. Traffic - Far From Home 8:35
10. Traffic - Holy Ground 7:49
11. Traffic - State Of Grace 7:17
12. Steve Winwood - Why Can't We 6:42
Live Together
13. Steve Winwood - Domingo Morning 5:08

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