Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
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Free Music Review: Winwood Reinvents Classic Rock
Hit: 5 Stars
As well as pays homage to it in a way that only one of the original maestros of Rock could do! A must Buy for Winwood Fans. This work brings Classic Rock into the 21st Century! I see that working with Eric Clapton for the past year has brought Winwood back to his Blind Faith and Classic Traffic Roots i.e. John Barleycorn era. Many of the chords sound familar, I heard chords from past Traffic works like Empty Pages, Paper Sun and Dear Mr. Fantasy in some of the new tracks, as well as similar chords from Yes's Roundabout on the new tune We're All Looking.
The collaboration with Clapton on Dirty City not only revisits the Blind Faith (all too brief) era but expands and enhances each artists growth over the last 40 years!
Hopefully new Rock Artists will listen,learn and move forward into this Expansion of Classic Rock. The door has now been swung open, it is up to the masses to keep it that way. Classic Rock could retake front and center from the long vast wastelands of Pop, amateur contests and Corporate Rock.
Kudos to Winwood for taking the risk and leaving behind his more recent commercial works like Back in The Highlife Again and Arc of The Diver. Steve is one of the leaders today in rock/jazz, rock/folk and rock/blues. Long Live Rock!
Free Music Review: A tremendous surprise
Hit: 5 Stars
While I've always had an appreciation for all aspects of Steve Winwood's music (solo and non), I've never really gone nuts for any of it. Until now...
Nine Lives is simply a fantastic album. The instrumentation is sparse, made up of mostly Winwood on Hammond and guitar, a drummer, and a percussionist. Occasionally, he's joined by a sax or flute player, and on one track Eric Clapton jumps in for a smokin' guitar solo. The vocals consist of Steve, solo, without a doubled lead vocal track or any background vocals. It's a fairly minimalist arrangement, but the sparseness just makes it that much more effective.
The groove is mostly laid back, and the songs are extended into mostly five to seven minute explorations of a musical idea. The album isn't flashy, and Winwood doesn't seem to be trying to impress anyone with his skills. He's just out to have a good time, and make some music that he enjoys. It translates to a remarkable album.
Nine Lives is an unexpected joy. I can't seem to listen to it enough, and I know I can't recommend it highly enough. It takes a lot for an album to really blow me away. Nine Lives blows me away...
Free Music Review: This is Steve Winwood's best work in a long time
Hit: 5 Stars
I have never heard Steve Winwood like this. "Nine Lives" is an excellent album features nine new tracks from Steve. He sounds great with his band. My favorite track is "Fly". This track is purely instrumental for the first minute and a half and turns into a vocal. This song is so peaceful. Paul Booth is so good on the saxophone and flute here. "Dirty City" is a great rock song. Eric Clapton sounds so good playing the guitar here. "Raging Sea" is a groovy sounding track. I like Jose Neto's bass guitar playing here. "I'm Not Drowning" features Steve on the acoustic guitar. He sounds very bluesy here. "At Times We Do Forget" and "Other Shore" are two songs that feature everyone in Steve's band. Richard Bailey provides an excellent beat on the drums. "Other Shore" is such a relaxing track. Karl Vanden Bossche is a talented percussionist bongo player on the track "Hungry Man". I love this new album from Steve Winwood.Free Music Review: Definitely a tremendous surprise
Hit: 5 Stars
I agree with the review titled "A tremendous surprise". I was expecting more of an "adult contemporary" version of Steve Winwood, but he's still got the creative energy, bluesy grooves and the "having-fun-making-music" vibe that he's shown in the past. I am most familiar with his early music projects with Blind Faith and Traffic (John Barleycorn Must Die is my favorite), and this album to me is a continuation of that type of music. The Eric Clapton guitar solo on Dirty City is classic Clapton, which obviously evokes Blind Faith just based on the musical pairing and their combined sound. Listen to Nine Lives all the way through, though. Every song is either excellent or very good. You'll be happy with this purchase if you like Winwood's sound and are a fan of his early music.Free Music Review: Fantastic!
Hit: 5 Stars
Definitely blues/jazz sound and feel. It is refreshing to hear an artist go back to his early sounds that defined him, when so many seem to want to distance themselves from their early work and sound. I love every track. The music is outstanding throughout, blending great guitar sounds, of course keyboards, along with great drums/percussion intruments, and flutes. The songs sound similar only in that the blues/jazz feel is always there. But each one has its own strenghts and riffs. As has been stated, if you like the pop/rock sound, you might not enjoy it. But this is true musicianship at its finest, and I can't help but tap along and feel a great mood drift down smoothly over me, just like all the sounds on these songs do. This one's on my favorite shelf already.