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Back in the High Life Japanese-only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD) paper sleeve pressing of this 1986 album. SHM-CDs can be played on any audio player and delivers unbelievably high-quality sound. You won't believe it's the same CD! Universal. 2008.	About Time The live tracks on the DVD side are: *Dear Mr. Fantasy - Austin City Limits Festival *Different Light - Sonoma Jazz Festival *Take It To The Final Hour - Sonoma Jazz Festival	Nine Lives Nine Lives expands on all the many phases and turns of Steve Winwood's lustrous career, bristling with his pure joy of music-making. The new songs range from the inspiring "Fly" to the burning "Dirty City" (featuring a guest appearance by long-time friend Eric Clapton) to the s...	20th Century Masters: The Best of Steve Winwood (Millennium Collection)	Chronicles
Arc of a Diver He wasn't Little Stevie, the 16-year-old phenom who set mid- '60s London blazing with his Ray Charles-like vocals, anymore. He was a half-forgotten ex-member of some of rock's most progressive (Traffic) and vilified (Blind Faith) bands, and he was considering leaving show busines...	Roll with It	Keep It Simple Those familiar with Van Morrison's ever mercurial muse could hardly have been surprised when he turned up on the artistically centered, avant-country label Lost Highway to pay tribute to a era-spanning slate of country icons on the Nashville imprint's `06 collection, Pay the Dev...	Blind Faith The short-lived classic-rock supergroup Blind Faith's sole album has aged remarkably well. In 1969, Blind Faith fused the psychedelic blues of Eric Clapton and the soulful vocals and keyboards of Steve Winwood with the polyrhythmic, Afrocentric leanings of drummer Ginger Baker. "...	The Cream of Clapton For a single disc, this is an admirable chronological tour of superstar Eric Clapton's mid-'60s-to-early-'80s career. It begins too late to include his gestational work with the Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. However, the singer-guitarist's days in Cream ("Sunshine of...

Steve Winwood: Boy Wonder
There are few other musicians of the period with such outstanding talent who worked with some of the truly iconic bands of the 60s and early 70s. Spencer Davis Group: Gimme Some Lovin', Keep on Running, I'm a Man (currently featured in a European VW Golf ad, with a white hound lip-synched - brilliant) Traffic: Paper Sun, Dear Mr.Fantasy, Pearly Queen, Forty Thousand Headman, John Barleycorn, Empty Pages, Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, Medicated Goo. Blind Faith: Had to Cry Today, Can't Find My Way Home. Dear Mr.Fantasy is the track to get close up and personal to - and it will probably last a lot longer than you do. A definitive compilation of Steve Winwood's early work - not a single dud track.

An excellent compilation of his earlier years
I can't believe no one else has written a review on this yet. I also can't believe that some people don't even realize that he was in these 3 different groups. Some people just know him for his solo work afterwards, which is sad because the stuff he did with the groups is just as good, if not better. Steve Winwood has a lot of other good songs besides "Higher Love," "Back In The High Life," "The Finer Things," "Roll With It," etc. Songs like "Gimme Some Lovin'," "Can't Find My Way Home," "Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys," and "Sea of Joy" are every bit as good as his solo hits. This compilation is kind of set up the sameway as Eric Clapton's "The Cream of Clapton," except none of his solo songs are included on this. Like "The Cream of Clapton" has the best of Cream, Derek and the Dominos, and a Blind Faith song, "Classic Steve Winwood" has the best of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and three other Blind Faith Songs. Although the two CD's are set up the same way, you can't really compare the music to each other because Steve Winwood does ethnic rock and Eric Clapton does blues rock. Every single song on this collection is great and I highly recommend this one. The 20th Century Masters CD has the same songs on it, but it's missing three really good ones that are found on here. If you buy this CD along with "Back In The High Life," you'll have all the Steve Winwood you'll ever need.