Steve_Winwood-Revolutions_(The_Very_Best_Of_Steve_Winwood)-4CD-2010-404

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ARTiST: Steve Winwood
ALBUM: Revolutions (The Very Best Of Steve Winwood)
BiTRATE: 186kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Island
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 414.28 megs
PLAYTiME: 4h 51min 55sec total
RiP DATE: 2010-07-06
STORE DATE: 2010-07-03

Track List: Disc #1/4
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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

Track List: Disc #2/4
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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

Track List: Disc #3/4
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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)

Track List: Disc #4/4
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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

Release Notes:
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It was Steve WinwoodÆs bluesy holler û weathered beyond his tender years and
sounding like he hailed from Birmingham, Alabama rather than Birmingham, England
û that gave The Spencer Davis Group the edge over all the other British Invasion
groups plying sweaty, R&B-indebted rockÆnÆroll in the 1960s. Their Keep On
Running û a stomping blast of Stax-style soul û 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 û thanks to Eric PrydzÆs cheesy Call On Me
remodelling of WinwoodÆs 1987 hit Valerie û topping the singles charts as
recently as 2004.

Revolution opens with Keep On Running, and further essays WinwoodÆs tenure with
Spencer Davis via self-penned hits like Gimme Some LovinÆ and the fearsomely
funky, Hammond-drenched IÆm 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 WinwoodÆs 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. 1985Æs 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 WinwoodÆs 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.

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