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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

Although it has been nearly 20 years since he had his first hits, ''Gimme Some Lovin' '' and ''I'm a Man,'' with the Spencer Davis Group, Steve Winwood doesn't wear the predictable aura of a weather-beaten rock veteran. Indeed, the English pop-blues singer and multi-instrumentalist, who is a very young-looking 38 years old, is more popular today than in the late 1960's and early 70's, when he led the English folk-jazz-blues band Traffic. The spare textures and loosely blocked arrangements of his music today make only minor concessions to contemporary pop sounds as he continues to evoke an earlier, more romantic period in rock history.