Steve Winwood Albums Ranked
Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop-rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboard player, Winwood also plays a wide variety of other instruments; on several of his solo albums he has played all instrumentation, including drums, mandolin, guitars, bass, and saxophone. inwood has won two Grammy Awards. He was nominated twice for a Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: 1988 and 1989. In 2011 he received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors for Outstanding Song Collection. Here are all of Steve Winwood albums ranked.
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10. Revolutions: The Very Best Of Steve Winwood (2010)
“All the greatest hits are here from Steve’s time in the Spencer Davis Group at age 17 through Traffic,Blind Faith and finally to his solo career in the 1980s when most young people probably got to know his work. I love everything about this album. All the songs are great! Especially for those who were not really familiar with the group Traffic which was a great band.”.
9. Steve Winwood (1977)
“This album in particular, & most of Winwood’s musical Contributions are akin to being mesmerized into a Kaleidoscope of Sound that Speaks to your Soul. One cannot genuinely listen to this album, and not be Indelibly Etched for Life. It is the haunting melodies (which you hear long after the album), the Distinctive Winwood Voice that Echoes a Cry of Passion which lures you as flames of a crackling fire draws and keeps your attention, until the embers finally fade away, and you want More, so you listen to it again, and again.”
8. Greatest Hits Live (2017)
“Stevie Winwood at his best when playing live and what an amazing rendition of all his songs with an incredibly tight band behind him on all these performances. I feel like I’m rediscovering all my favorite songs again with the enrichment of Stevie’s passion for his classic songs still with so much feeling.”
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7. Refugees Of The Heart (1990)
“1990’s “Refugees Of The Heart” was the album that made me a Steve Winwood fan. I’d heard some of Steve’s hit songs from “Arc Of A Diver,” “Back In The High Life” & “Roll With It,” and I liked them, but “Refugees Of The Heart” completely blew me away. That this wonderful album was NOT a hit and is now out-of-print is a very sad thing, for this is Steve’s best solo album by far.”
6. Roll With It (1988)
“This album is from 1988, which I had on vinyl, and felt the need to have on CD. The title track is a good example of what’s to come later – Rock with a little R&B/Funk mixed in. It also has a ballad called “One More Morning” which starts with Vocal and Piano that shows the diversity of Steve Winwood. If you like Rock, you’ll like this.”
5. About Time (2003)
“Winwood’s compositions throughout this CD deal with values: spiritual, human, family, love,compassion. He is a man who has lived his life with his eyes wide open and his journey has been one of thoughtful and passionate commitment. It is in every touch of the keys on his legendary Hammond. His reading of the soul classic “Why Can’t We Live Together” has taken on extraordinarily more significance, given the state of the world today, and his voice carries the hurt, pain and pleading entreaty of one who sees the suffering and mourns deeply.”
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4. Nine Lives (2008)
“On NINE LIVES, Steve Winwood pulls together every style that he’s used since he began his career in 1963, from old-school R&B to hard rock and jazzy progressive rock to progressive pop-rock to blue-eyed soul- and succeeds with every stylistic turn. He even reunites with Eric Clapton, his old mate from Blind Faith, on “Dirty City”, and the result is a song with more emotion and grit than Winwood has mustered up since ARC OF A DIVER and Clapton since ANOTHER TICKET. Overall, this album successfully surveys Winwood’s past even as it moves him into the future.”
3. Talking Back To The Night (1982)
“Talking Back to the Night heralds the reemergence of Steve Winwood to the fold of innovative music. Many of his prior albums deserve recognition and naturally, Back in the High Life is a stellar offering, but Talking Back is a special high mark for Winwood and music. The release is clothed in the innovation, preparation, feeling and mastery which comes once in a musician’s lifetime. It is his masterpiece. The beautiful, introspective compositions supercede the melodic ante of the time and the brilliant chord progressions offer new material to a decade which was largely blaise and repetitive.”
2. Back In The High Life (1986)
“”Back in the High Life” is an essential album for anyone who wants to truly know musical talent at its greatest height. Winwood’s amazing vocals and unparalleled skills with the organ and piano are alone reasons to buy every Steve Winwood album, but this album is especially notable for his blend of accessible, yet complex song arrangements.”
1. Arc Of A Diver (1980)
“This is a great album, especially considering that Stevie did it mostly by himself. I love all of the songs,mainlly Night Train, Spanish Dancer and Arc of A Diver. The album has a funky, synthesizer sound, but it is important to remember that it was written by a human, and that will be clear to the person by listening to it.”