Steve Winwood

At those periodic times when Steve Winwood's resolutely private muse has intersected
with the public domain–such as last year, when he hit the Top Forty with the buoyant
"While You See a Chance" – it's seemed almost a fortuitous accident, a quirky twist of fate.
The reason is that Winwood generally sounds too much the loner to elbow his way
forward in the crowded push and shove of rock & roll's noisy arcades. His is the h... More >

Launched on a chart-certified comeback, he tries to consolidate his gains by writing songs instead of tripping over them the way he did with "While You See a Chance." Somebody throw a synthesizer at that man's ankles. (Grade: C)