Nine Lives | 
| Artist: Steve Winwood
Label: Sony
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 11
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 722250
UPC: 886972225029
EAN: 0886972225029
ASIN: B0014KD46W
Release Date: April 29, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | I'm Not Drowning | | • | Fly | | • | Raging Sea | | • | Dirty City | | • | We're All Looking | | • | Hungry Man | | • | Secrets | | • | At Times We Do Forget | | • | Other Shore |
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Album Description
Nine Lives expands on all the many phases and turns of Steve Winwood's lustrous career, bristling with his pure joy of music-making. The new songs range from the inspiring "Fly" to the burning "Dirty City" (featuring a guest appearance by long-time friend Eric Clapton) to the simmering "Hungry Man", joining a canon that spans more than forty years to include some of the most beloved songs of modern pop and rock.
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Beautiful and soulful. A 'must ' buy. April 29, 2008
a tois (New York)
29 out of 34 found this review helpful
Steve Winwood, a hugely accomplished musician and one of the most respected and innovative performers of his generation, 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.
In his eagerly anticipated new album, "NINE LIVES", backed by his incredible band, he demonstrates his ability to create an era-bridging soundtrack of distinctive artistry.
2008 will be a busy year on the road for the Steve and band: in fact he has confirmed he will be joining Tom Petty for a three month run of shows in the US this summer.
The new single "Dirty City" features a guest appearance by long-time friend, Eric Clapton.
Like its 2003 predecessor, "Nine Lives" is built around simple, evocative borrowings from the structures of blues, soul and Latin music: gently rocking stuff you can sit on. There are plenty of things to be irritated by, from soupy soprano sax fills to Winwood's waffly-epic lyric style, but an equal number of ways to be rocked gently to your soul.
This well crafted and heartfelt album is a fresh and invigorating rediscovery of Winwood's roots and his personal style.
"This is pop music with soul, with grit and the grains of revealed truth pouring from Winwood's mouth, not as a survivor but as a man who has seen enough of life to know that the sun really does rise in the morning. Nine Lives is deeper, heartier, and braver lyrically than anything he's ever done. Musically, its only rival is About Time, but it's more reflective and gentler, without giving up any of the hunger which that album evidenced. This is not a comeback; it's instead a rediscovery from one of our most gifted singers, songwriters, and truth-tellers".Thom Jurek
My favourite tracks are: "Dirty City", "At Times We Forget" and "Fly".
I like it.
You will like it !
Arc of a Diver
About Time
Some semi-Finer Things April 29, 2008
William Merrill (San Antonio, TX United States)
17 out of 51 found this review helpful
The new Winwood CD opens in fitting fashion, with "I'm Not Drowning," a catchy acoustic blues number co-written and entirely performed by Steve (the one-man band act he's been known to do over the years). The song is one of three standouts for me on the new long-player, the others being the soulful "Raging Sea," featuring excellent guitar work by Jose Pires de Almeida Neto, and the much-heralded Winwood-Clapton single, "Dirty City." Some of the other songs at first seemed less substantial, such as a pleasant, smooth 7-minute tune called "Fly," but I've appreciated those songs more on the 2nd and 3rd listen. This is not Winwood's all-time best recorded work, but it's a respectable enough collection of new songs from a former kid prodigy who's still putting out good material in his fifth decade as a professional musician.
The new rise of a true great British blue-eyed R&B artist ! May 7, 2008
Pedder (Philadephia)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
Steve Winwood (who turns 60 this year) has signed a new deal with Columbia Records who has released the artist's highly-anticipated new major label album "Nine Lives", his first studio LP since the acclaimed "About Time" on his own independent label, Wincraft in 2003.
It and opens an important new chapter in Steve's extraordinary career.
Even after a career of 45 years, there always a suspicion that Steve Winwood may surprise us.
He lives the quiet life of a country squire in his Cotswolds retreat, but periodically Steve Winwood emerges, like a gun-dog with a grouse in its mouth, bearing another album of gorgeous, wide-ranging songs.
"Nine Lives" is the latest: it has less of a Latin flavour than its predecessor About Time, but at times it has more of an edge, especially on the rousing, gritty-sounding "Dirty City", on which his old Blind Faith bandmate Eric Clapton guests on guitar.
The album is written and co-produced by Steve Winwood with Johnson Somerset- whose previous credits include Roxy Music and Duran Duran.
Why Nine Lives ? Some people believe in the superstition that cats have nine lives, because cats can survive falls from high places with few, if any injuries. This gives the appearance that the cats return to life after sustaining a fatal accidents, they may sustain minor injuries, such but they live to recover.
The aptly titled album is a fresh and invigorating rediscovery of Winwood's roots, his personal style and career, and paints a musical portrait of spiritual transformation as Winwood continues the exploration of soul, rock, blues and world music which began in 1957, when, at the age of 9, he played guitar in his father's band in Birmingham, England.
Pretty much everything you'd ever want from a Steve Winwood album is here: the plaintive voice, the pulsing rhythms, the multifarious musical influences (funk, jazz, blues, world) - and of course Winwood's trusty old Hammond B3 organ, which drenches this album in its blazing, shimmering warmth.
He is now just days from his 60th birthday, but he joined the Spencer Davis Group at just 15, voyaging through blue-eyed R&B, toying with psychedelia in Traffic, doing the supergroup thing with Eric Clapton in Blind Faith and pioneering the DIY play-everything approach with "Arc of A Diver".
Since then, Winwood has perfected a synthesis of blues, jazz, soul, latin and occasionally folk which at its best is exquisite. No mean guitarist, a master of the lush Hammond organ and possibly one of the best voices in English rock, Winwood's name should be writ as large as Clapton's.
It has nine arresting songs: on each of them he continues the exploration of soul, rock, blues and world music that Steve Winwood is renowned for.
It kicks off with a I'm Not Drowning, hitched to a delta blues riff.
Amongst the many highlights on the album, "Fly" is a brave and ambitious track featuring soaring powerful vocals set against a cacophony of sound: it is a gossamer-fine love song, using latin rhythm, nylon-strung guitar, pining soprano sax and organ, Winwood's voice creating the kind of hymn-like quality he brought to Traffic's "Holy Ground".
Other highlights on the album are many and include "Forget About Him", a joyous and moving six-minute journey through horns, keyboards and world instruments.
Alongside "Hungry Man", which sounds like something from Paul Simon's Brazilian-style "Rhythm Of The Saints", "We're All Looking", a mighty fine Latin funk with lashings of Hammond and the captivating track "Secrets" show that the album is as consistently strong as it is diverse.
On this CD Steve Winwood turns another musical corner, showcasing his ability to still create relevant and evocative music. It gives his fans, old and new, nine new reasons to celebrate the life and music of this ageless, and still prodigious, musical treasure.
Steve and Eric Clapton played three sold out nights at Madison Square Gardens, New York in February.
Steve and his band will be special guests to Tom Petty on his US tour this summer.
If you liked him in "Blind Faith" and his jazzy phases, this CD is for you May 4, 2008
R. Kyle (Knoxville, TN)
15 out of 40 found this review helpful
I've liked Steve Winwood through most of his career, including Blind Faith, Traffic, and his solo music. I'm not as much a fan of the pop tunes as I am the jazzier, bluesier music.
The single of "Dirty City" a gritty Blind Faith style number with his old friend Eric Clapton led this CD out into radioland. It's my favorite cut of the collection and the reason I bought the CD.
"Fly" is lovely. The flute at the end of the song is compelling and really conjures up the image of flight.
I'd like to see "At Times we Forget" get some airplay. It's got strong lyrics and is a good listen.
Check out the samples on this page and see what you think. While this CD is mostly jazz and blues influenced, fans of Winwood's pop may find a few cuts they really enjoy--and the price for this collection is excellent.
Another Shore For Winwood May 2, 2008
Andre S. Grindle (Brewer Maine)
9 out of 23 found this review helpful
Fresh off of a reunion tour with Blind Faith Steve Winwood emmerges with this album.While I still lean towards Steve Winwood,Arc of a Diver and Talking Back to the Night as my favorite Winwood solo albums (all three showcase his talents as a computer,vocalist and multi instrumentalist best) this album has a different kind of charm. The music here generally bridges the cap between Winwood's music with Blind Faith and Traffic with his patented genre bending blend of pop,rock,soul,funk,blues and jazz. He starts off the album in a rather quiet mood with "I'm Not Drowning" and "Fly",the later of which features a beautiful flute solo. On "Raging Sea" Winwood gets down into a funky mood which extends into the blues on the meandering "Dirty City" with Eric Clapton,adding his trademark rocking blues licks to the proceeding. The next four songs "We're All Looking","Hungry Man","Secrets" and "At Times We Do Forget" all showcase the percussive/rhythm-based sound of Traffic but again Winwoods quiet mood continues.On "Other Shore" Steve presents a very good pop song using a similar sound. There's only one question about all this-why other then some good songs would anyone beside Winwood fans want this? Steve Winwood has been around for four decades and while his music has never really wavered in quality his enthusiasm has on occasion,especially on his spotty 90's recordings. So this album isn't as much a comeback as an extension on a theme. It also has the feeling of an album that,while by no means a future classic will grow on the listener and surely become a fan favorite to some people.And being a Winwood fan I hope I am one of them.
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