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• Nov 04 2007

  Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 DVD

  

  On Tuesday, November 20, Rhino will release the 2-DVD set, CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL 2007 FROM CHICAGO, featuring four hours of performances from Eric Clapton's historic benefit concert.

  Steve performs several songs with Eric and other featured performers, among them "Presence Of The Lord," "Had To Cry Today," "Crossroads," and "Dear Mr. Fantasy."

  Shot in HD, the double-DVD set features 38 tracks, and also gives viewers an all-access pass with extraordinary behind-the-scenes footage captured backstage at this all-star, six-string summit. The audio is presented in 5.1 Surround Sound.

  For more information, please visit Rhino's website.

• May 19 2007

  Steve Winwood to Play Countryside...

  

  Countryside Rocks

  In aid of the Countryside Alliance

  Highclere Castle, Newbury, Berkshire-Saturday 19th May 2007

• Apr 25 2007

  Review: Wedgewood Rooms,...

  

  The warm atmosphere and the billing of this three-hour show as “An Evening With Steve Winwood” revealed Steve as a man comfortable with all stages of his career. In no particular order, we were treated to Spencer Davis hits (a throwaway “Somebody Help Me” and a monstrous “Gimme Some Loving”), Traffic classics from early (“Medicated Goo”) to later (“Light Up Or Leave Me Alone”) via Blind Faith (“Can’t Find My Way Home”). Landing at the Winwood solo years, his most commercially successful period (“Higher Love” etc.) now sounds his artistically weakest, while the latest album shows an artist at the peak of his powers (his cover of Timmy Thomas’ “Why Can’t We Live Together” being an unexpected highlight of a set with many highs).

  The evergreen Winwood can afford to surround himself with the cream of sessioners...

• Mar 23 2007

  Steve Winwood To Play Crossroads...

  

  OVER 20 OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST GUITARISTS PLAY SIDEMEN TO EACH OTHER ON ONE STAGE, FOR ONE DAY, TO SUPPORT ONE CAUSE

  ERIC CLAPTON ANNOUNCES
  CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL
  JULY 28, 2007, CHICAGO

  Day-Long Festival To Feature Legendary Music And Collaborations Including: Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, BB King, Willie Nelson, Jeff Beck, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crow, Buddy Guy, Derek Trucks and John Mayer

   

• Jan 19 2007

  Jim Capaldi: Homage To An Unsung Hero

  

  Born Nicola James Capaldi in Evesham, Worcestershire in August 1944, Capaldi came from a musical family but forsook his father's accordion for the drums and played in covers bands around the Midlands. With Dave Mason, Capaldi formed the Hellions and recorded three singles, for Piccadilly, which got nowhere fast in 1965.

• Jan 10 2007

  Dear Mr. Fantasy: A Tribute To Jim...

  

  January 10th, 2007

  Jim Capaldi played with Traffic as well as Hendrix, Clapton, and others. At last there's a celebration gig.

  'Jim Capaldi is a bit of an unsung hero, a really under-rated drummer, and one of the greatest musicians and lyricists to come out of this country,' says Paul Weller, who knows a thing or two about Sixties heroes. Later on this week, the Modfather will join another two of his idols, Capaldi's Traffic bandmate Steve Winwood and the Who mainman Pete Townshend, as well a host of other musicians, for Dear Mr Fantasy: A Celebration For Jim Capaldi, at the Roundhouse in London.