STEVE WINWOOD – REFUGEES OF THE HEART LP – Nr MINT A1/B1 1990

Steve Winwood – Refugees Of The Heart
(Virgin Records  1990  LL211032)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles at the very start of side one)

Sleeve in Excellent condition
– some wear to edges, scuff/tear in middle of spine and some rubbing
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– a few light foxing spots

Stephen Lawrence “Steve” Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician whose genres include rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, Winwood also plays bass guitar, drums, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, violin, and other strings.

Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He also had a successful solo career with hits including “While You See a Chance,” “Valerie,” “Back in the High Life Again” and two US Billboard Hot 100 number ones: “Higher Love” and “Roll with It.” He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.

In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his “enduring influence on generations of music makers.” In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won two Grammy Awards. He was nominated twice for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: 1988 and 1989.

Like Eric Clapton, he has been part of many bands, including Traffic, The Spencer Davis Group, and Blind Faith (along with Eric Clapton).

Refugees of the Heart is the sixth solo album by Steve Winwood, released in 1990. The album contained the hit single, “One and Only Man”, which topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and saw the return of former Traffic bandmate Jim Capaldi to Winwood’s songwriting team. By coincidence, a Traffic reunion followed in 1994. Because of that collaboration, Winwood would not record another solo album until late 1997. Also “I Will Be Here” and “Another Deal Goes Down” were released as singles. Winwood stated about the closing track, “In The Light Of Day”: ‘When Will and I wrote the song (..) it was our idea of what Nelson Mandela’s dream was, while he was in prison. It was really just a fantasy of ours, but that’s what we based the song on.’

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings except where noted.

1. “You’ll Keep on Searching” – 6:19
2. “Every Day (Oh Lord)” – 5:49
3. “One and Only Man” – (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) 5:00
4. “I Will Be Here” – 5:58
5. “Another Deal Goes Down” – 4:57
6. “Running On” – 4:18
7. “Come Out and Dance” – 5:33
8. “In the Light of Day” – 9:44

Production

• Produced by Steve Winwood
• Executive Producer – John Clarke
• Engineered & Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge
• Assistant Engineer – Brian Harding (Nashville)
• Additional Engineering – Mike Dolan
• Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
• Art Direction by Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff & Melanie Nissen
• Design – Mike Fink
• Photography – Douglas Brothers

Personnel

• Steve Winwood – vocals, keyboards (1-6,8), Hammond organ (1,3-7), Mini Moog solo (2), keyboard bass (3), guitar (3,7), additional percussion (3), vibes solo (8), additional drums (8), drum programming, keyboard programming, Fairlight programming
• Mike Lawler – additional keyboards (1,4)
• Russ Kunkel – drums (1,4,5)
• Jim Capaldi – drums (2,3,7), percussion (3)
• Eddie Bayers – drums (6)
• Bashiri Johnson – percussion (1,2,4-8)
• Michael Rhodes – bass guitar (1,2,4-7)
• Anthony Crawford – guitar (1)
• Larry Byrom – guitar (2,4,6,7), slide guitar (5)
• Randall Bramblett – soprano saxophone (1), alto saxophone (7), tenor saxophone (8)
• Jim Horn – alto saxophone (4), baritone & tenor saxophones (7)
• Harvey Thomson – tenor saxophone (7)
• Michael Haynes – trumpet (7)