By the way, speaking of Steve Winwood, it amuses me to no end that this song was written, performed, and recorded by a 17-year-old extremely white British kid, and every single member of Motown or Stax/Volt would have given their eye-teeth for it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=W_ykpby0yag …
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Steve Winwood began his professional musical career when he was FOURTEEN. He was just some kid from Birmingham England who mysteriously sounded like the sweatiest, most impassioned chitlin-circuit R&B/soul shouter to ever crawl out of the Deepest South. Just one of those things.
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Seriously now, Winwood took the old blues trope of "I'm A Man" and wrote an entirely different song about it, turned it into a massive rock-pop smash, and he was..18 years old:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwHOjhXVHkk …
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And now, my ultimate dad-rock confession: I will always love this song. It is so "Eighties" (right at the start of the decade, it helped define the sound in a lot of ways) and I don't care. It's relentless, the hooks don't let you go:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHnFy9ZlxJc …
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Fantastic song.
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Yeah. I'd rather not see either dead, but if I had my way Clapton would have told SRV "tough luck". IMHO SRV was/ is far more talented.
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But then SRV is lost on most people, they think it's a foreign car model or some form of Cadillac.
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I’ve never been a big fan of Clapton, but his performance on Roger Water’s obscure solo album in the 80s was brilliant. https://youtu.be/HI4bz0OvQ8A
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The guitar solo on this son (starting at 2:18) is a masterpiece.
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I got his album Backless stuck in my car's cassette player in high school. It was the only thing I could listen to for six months or so. I never got tired of it.
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