Steve Winwood will present an award to Sam Moore at the MOBO Awards tonight at the Royal Albert Hall. Steve recently performed on Moore's new album Overnight Sensational. For more on the MOBO awards, visit their website: www.mobo.com The BBC will air the awards show live on BBC3 at 9 p.m. It will be repeated on BBC1 on September 22nd.
Steve appears on the new Christina Aguilera album Back to Basics. The track "Makes Me Wanna Pray" features a sample of the Traffic classic "Glad" as well as steve re-playing the familiar piano/organ lines. For more details on the release, check out Aguilera's website. Clips are available on iTunes.
For the fall dates announced yesterday (on July 25th, 2006), Steve's touring band will consist of guitarist Jose Neto and percussionist Karl Vanden Bossche. Steve is also pleased to introduce two new bandmates: Paul Booth on sax/flute and Richard Bailey on drums.
At the recent Montreaux Jazz Festival, Steve participated in a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun. Steve received a standing ovation after his performances of "Georgia on My Mind" and "Can't Find My Way Home." Steve selected the latter composition as Blind Faith originally was released on Atco Records (a subsidiary of Atlantic Records) in the USA. Steve also played Hammond Organ alongside George Duke at the finale. Also joining in were Chic & Nile Rodgers, Robert Plant, Stevie Nicks, and Kid Rock. It was an improvised jam--one of those moments where things aren't planned, but turn out very special indeed.