Steve Winwood: Nine Lives

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Contents: I'm not drowning — Fly — Raging sea — Dirty city — We're all looking — Hungry man — Secrets — At time we do forget — Other shore. Tracks 1, 4, 5 written by Winwood and [Peter?] Godwin, other tracks by Winwood, Godwin, and Jose Pires de Almeida Neto.
Personnel: Track 1: Winwood, all instruments. Tracks 2-9: Winwood, vocals and Hammond organ on all tracks, also guitar on tracks 4, 5; Jose Pires de Almeida Neto, guitar, tracks 2, 3, 6-9; Richard Bailey, drums; Paul Booth, saxophone, flute and/or whistle, tracks 2, 6-9; Karl Vanden Bossche, percussion; Eric Clapton, guitar solo, track 4; Tim Cansfield, guitar, track 6.
Notable lyrics: "Hot desert wind/ Burning sand/ But this land it is my land/ Wait by the well/ Rain don't come/ River's dry/ Pray for my son/ I'm just one, one more poor hungry man. …"
Chuck Arnold wrote in People: "Winwood feels like jamming on his first studio album since 2003. The result? Nine shape-shifting songs that are meant to be played live. Blind Faith cohort Eric Clapton adds some bluesy grit to 'Dirty City'" ("Music: Quick Cuts," 5/5/08, p. 45).