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Winwood on a "Roll"
First new album and single since 1986 mark his Virgin Records debut

Roll With It, Steve Winwood's first album of new music since his 1986 multiplatinum release Back in the High Life, hits the stores late this month. The title track of the album was released as a single in May, and Winwood kicks off a two-month tour of the United States on July 7.

Produced by Winwood and Tom Lord Alge - who helped engineer Back in the High Life - Roll With It was recorded in Dublin and Toronto and picks up where the preceding album left off. "Back in the High Life was a very successful album," Winwood says, "and we wanted to use various elements that we used on it." As on his previous solo outings, Winwood handles the lion's share of the instruments on Roll With It; key-boardists Robby Kilgore and Mike Lawer and drummers John Robinson and Jimmy Bralower appear as sidemen.

Winwood goes it homey and natural

Winwood, walking alone in the streets of Fairfax, Virginia, in the countryside, on-stage, dancing and walking with his wife, Eugenia, obviously 'back in the high life" in some way.

It's all quite natural and homey, and a change from the stylish, pre-marriage "Higher Love" video that posed him with fashion models. Oddly enough, it's vaguely reminiscent of his old "Still in the Game" video that showed him with hisformer wife. In any case, this clip shows a very secure, happy, peaceful Winwood.

-- Lisa Robinson