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Steve Winwood's terrific new album, About Time, is released June 17th on his own Wincraft Music label. Full of tremulous beats and washes of organ, it is a perfect soundtrack for the unfolding summer season.
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For those who remember the days when Steve Winwood's music was rough, greasy and a little wild, the title track from Roll with It is a tantalizing reminder of what used to be. The toughest, funkiest song Winwood has recorded in years, it features a tight Motown-style rhythm section, blaring horns and a vocal with far more grit and abandon than the singer has shown on his last several records. "Roll with It," the single, is the sound of Steve Winwood being exciting, but most of Roll with It, the album, is the sound of Steve Winwood being boring.
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With the departure of Steve Winwood the magic seemed to have gone. In October of 1968 Eddie Hardin and Pete York left to form the critically-acclaimed duo Hardin and York. They were replaced by Nigel Olsson and Pete Murray but after a final single and a cancelled album Spencer Davis disbanded the group.
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[One] rock star of substantial seniority, Steve Winwood played at the new North Shore Bank Landing with Miller Lite at Summerfest Friday. Winwood's latest album, "About Time," is being compared favorably to his best work with Traffic.
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Winwood began work on what was slated to be his first solo LP, but he gradually brought in more ex-Traffic members to help him out, to the point where the album simply became a band reunion. John Barleycorn Must Die was released later in 1970, showcasing the sort of jam-happy jazz-rock sound that Winwood had in mind for the group from the start. Several more albums in that vein followed, including 1971's The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, which brought Traffic to the peak of their commercial popularity in America. The run was briefly interrupted by Winwood's bout with peritonitis around 1972, but he'd recovered enough to play a major role in Eric Clapton's early-1973 comeback concerts at the Rainbow Theatre. Traffic broke up in 1974, but instead of going solo right away, an exhausted Winwood spent the next few years as a session musician, relaxing on his Gloucestershire farm during his spare time. He ... featured prominently as a collaborator with Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta, appearing on his hit jazz fusion LP, Go, in 1976.
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In 1976, about two years after the demise of Traffic, Winwood was involved in the Go project, an amalgam of diverse musicians brought together by the Japanese jazz artist Stomu Yamashta. The Go album gives front cover billing to Yamashta, Winwood, and Michael Shrieve (the original drummer for Santana). Other musicians involved with this progressive rock opus included Al DiMeola, Klause Schulze, and Pat Thrall among others. It's a dreamy, cosmic concept album about space travel, built mainly on Yamashta's string synthesizers and percussion. Winwood provides the lead vocals on the six non-instrumental tracks. Winwood wrote the closing track "Winner/Loser"; the rest where written by Yamashta and lyricist Michael Quartermain.
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