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  1. Nine Lives Review: USA Today

    Steve Winwood has crafted a stellar solo career since his Spencer Davis Group/Traffic/Blind Faith heyday. But when he sees a chance for a high-profile collaboration, he takes it.

    In February, he joined Eric Clapton for three sold-out nights at New York's Madison Square Garden. Next month, just as Winwood turns 60, he begins a new alliance and joins Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers on one of summer's top tours. He'll perform a one-hour set and join Petty on stage during the Heartbreakers' headlining set.

     

  2. Glide Magazine: Nine Lives Review

    Steve Winwood has had a most successful solo career for over a quarter century, beginning in 1981 with Arc of A Diver through 2003's About Time. Yet no album has so accurately reflected his versatile talents or vividly echoed the pinnacles of his past as Nine Lives.

    Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die and The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys come to mind at the first sounds of the initial track, "I'm Not Drowning," where bluesy acoustic guitar, congas and timbales surround the effortless soul of Steve's voice. On "Fly"--an ode to optimism if there ever was one--the haunting sound of flute (which reappears on the penultimate track, "Raging Sea," to impart a sense of logic to the album) follows sweet strains of harmonica and grand swells of Hammond B3 organ.

     

  3. A Chat With Steve Winwood: Bullz-Eye Magazine

    During the course of a career that has lasted for over four decades (and counting), Steve Winwood has gone from the Spencer Davis Group's 15-year-old keyboard player to a member of Traffic and Blind Faith - and then a solo star in his own right, scoring platinum sales in the ‘80s with albums such as Arc of a Diver, Back in the High Life, and Roll With It. Fresh from three nights of packing Madison Square Garden with his old friend Eric Clapton - and on the eve of the release of his latest album, Nine Lives, and a summer tour with Tom Petty - Winwood took time out for a chat with Bullz-Eye's Jeff Giles.

  4. Steve Winwood To Receive Honorary Doctor of Music Degree

    Philip Bailey and Maurice White of Earth Wind & Fire, Steve Winwood, Howard Shore, and Rosa Passos, to Receive Honorary Doctor of Music Degrees at Berklee's Commencement, May 10

    Winwood Performs in Concert, May 8
    BOSTON, MA, April 8, 2008 - Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown will present Philip Bailey and Maurice White of Earth Wind & Fire; Steve Winwood; film composer and Berklee alumnus Howard Shore; and Brazilian artist Rosa Passos with honorary doctor of music degrees at Berklee College of Music's Commencement on Saturday, May 10, 10:00 a.m., at the Agganis Arena at Boston University. Commencement speaker Philip Bailey will address more than 800 Berklee graduates and invited guests at the 7,000-seat venue.