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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Replying to @EsotericCD
So many great songs in the 80s. Valerie, Higher Love, Back in the High Life, Finer Things...the only one I don't like is Roll With It.
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Replying to @ScotBertram @EsotericCD
This was a productive rabbit hole.pic.twitter.com/R2s3qaQMfU
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Replying to @cjscalia @EsotericCD
Also the featured song in the unremembered Dabney Coleman vehicle SHORT TIME
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Back in the High Life is the best Winwood song and an all-time classic, fight me.
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Not the best, but yes it's a classic. The only one from that album (which OF COURSE my parents owned when I was a kid) that really holds up.
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"The Finer Things" and "Higher Love" I remember digging as a 7-year-old, but man now I hear them and cringe. But "Back In The High Life" is a much more natural sound, you've got the mandolins on it. Also, it's basically about falling off the wagon.
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To me, it's one of the classic songs of nostalgia that hasn't died yet. It's the perfect song to play on the drive to your college reunions.
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