As everyone who follows me knows, I do not really buy the Myth of Eric Clapton (okay, outside of the LAYLA album). Here's one song where I buy it. It's not even the guitar solo, it's what he does on that final verse as Winwood sings.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBoYPNhSQO0 …
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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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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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Replying to @ScotBertram @EsotericCD
The *real* Roll With It.
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Now, now, don't look back in anger
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