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Nine Lives (CD)

By: Steve Winwood

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DISC 1 for Nine Lives (CD) Album By Steve Winwood
1   I'm Not Drowning - (with Steve Winwood)
2   Fly - (with Steve Winwood)
3   Raging Sea - (with Steve Winwood)
4   Dirty City - (with Steve Winwood, featuring Eric Clapton)
5   We're All Looking - (with Steve Winwood)
6   Hungry Man - (with Steve Winwood)
7   Secrets - (with Steve Winwood)
8   At Times We Do Forget - (with Steve Winwood)
9   Other Shore - (with Steve Winwood)
 

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Review

Uncut (p.90) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "NINE LIVES revisits the jam-based work of Traffic...and that's good news, because Winwood remains at his most compelling in immediate settings."
Q (Magazine) (p.148) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "True to form, his first album in five years is a very musicianly affair..."

Title Note

Personnel: Steve Winwood (vocals, organ); Eric Clapton, Jose Pires De Almeida Neto (guitar); Paul Booth (flute, saxophone); Richard Bailey (drums); Karl Vanden Bossche (percussion).

After more than 40 years of making music, and over 30 as a solo artist, former Spencer Davis Group/Traffic singer Steve Winwood truly seems to have 9 LIVES, sounding as vital as ever on his ninth solo outing. Picking up on the Latin inflections of the preceding ABOUT TIME, percolating congas weave their way through most of the album, adding an insistent pulse. Unsurprisingly, the atmospheric blues-rocker "Dirty City," featuring an Eric Clapton guest appearance, garnered the most attention, but there are plenty of other pleasures here.

The jazzy soprano sax that floats over the congas and acoustic guitar on "Fly," and the floating textures of "Raging Sea," are evocative of Winwood's days in Traffic, while the invigorating organ tabs of "We're All Looking" bear a link to his Spencer Davis Group work. Throughout the album, churning, tension-filled riffs and syncopated Afro-Cuban rhythms provide an urgent undercurrent, proving that this elder statesman is no mere bloated classic-rocker.

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TOWER.COM REVIEW

Nine Lives – Steve Winwood

This April 29th, 2008 release on Columbia Records is Steve Winwood’s first full-length studio album in 5 years.

The English singer-songwriter, who has also played in the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Go and Blind Faith, is fresh-off of a three night stop with guitarist Eric Clapton at Madison Square Garden, an experience he says “made (him) work a little outside of the box.”

The album begins with “I’m Not Drowning” setting a coarse acoustic ambiance and continues to flourish with “Dirty City”, the album’s first single, in which the legendary guitarist Eric Clapton solos over a powerful wall of sound generated by Winwood and the rest of the group.

Nine Lives is complete with Winwood’s signature Hammond B3 organ aesthetic, the instrument also providing the album's entire bass line. In addition to his exceptional vocal technique, the use of a ‘horn’ section adds to the overall radiant feel of this album.

Influences of folk blues, rock, R&B, African, Latin American and jazz styles perforate the air in which Winwood’s sound waves travel.

Where does this album title originate from? “Well, it’s nine songs, and it’s my ninth album…” – Steve Winwood

Catch him live with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on a summer tour promoting Nine Lives.

Favorite Songs: “Dirty City”, “Hungry Man”, and “Fly”

-Thom, Tower Pulse 05/02/2008

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5 out of 5 stars Nine Lives, April 14, 2008
By Kevin J
Ive been a fan of Steve Winwood since his early Traffic days. Ive got to say he still has it after all these years. Nine Lives proves that this cat hold his own in the yard.

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