He was the teenage show-stealer who hid behind his elders, the R&B belter who skulked in the shadows, the psychedelic star who camouflaged himself in the countryside. Will the real Steve Winwood please stand up?
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"Junction means crossing or intersection. I mean that's where this
time I crossed Narada and the other collaborators and co-writers. And this is
my seventh solo album. So I added 7 on the end. The image of the figure 7 is
good in my mind. I feel it has some kind of complete strength...." -
Winwood, who recorded the album over a 5 ½ month period in his home studio, deliberately set out to make a positive record, in part as an antidote to the negativity in much of today's media. "There's a lot of dark things around us, and this was an effort to make something to lift people's souls a bit - [to] try and give them something spiritual," he says.
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Steve Winwood has always thrown plenty of ingredients into his music. Take his unique, timeless voice -- which, by the way, is sounding better than ever -- his longtime love of R&B, some contemporary soul grooves, a couple of spiritual ballads and his formidable experience as a rock heavyweight, put them all together and you arrive at Junction Seven.
