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4 of 14 customers found the following review helpful:
 Back To What He Does Best, 2008-05-01
This album is such a welcome arrival into my collection. In a time where there are very few new artists with any...what's the word I'm looking for?...talent?!? And so many of my all time favorites releasing sub-par efforts or simply treading water, it is nice to hear someone remember what got them so far to begin with. No, this album does not break any new ground, but it does sound fresh. It's not just recycled versions of older songs. It is an excellent choice for relaxing on a Sunday afternoon and listening to good music on the living room stereo...you know, like you used to do?
2 of 16 customers found the following review helpful:
Smooth Jazz Winwood Style, 2008-04-30
After 2003 About TimeAbout Time as a HUGE Winwood fan I was ecstatic about his new Jamming direction which he explained in the title
song "Different Light". His new Album NINE LIVES was billed as a continuation of that style. Although the new Album does not contain the searing Hammond B or Guitar Solos(except Clapton's help on Dirty City), it has a great contemporary smooth jazz style with wide interludes( perhaps too wide on "Hungry Man"). Check out "Fly", "Other Shore", "At Times we do forget and "Raging Sea". As a 60 year old Winwood may be slowing down a bit but he is still Rocking on!!!(Could the same be said for Phil Collins or Billy Joel?)
2 of 12 customers found the following review helpful:
a great album that grows on you each time, 2008-04-30
I bought this album last night and found myself listening to certain tracks and skipping over some.Thats what I do.Although I was concentrating on other things I did manage to get my thoughts together.It opens with a catchy beginning then decends into a more bluesy traffic material.This album was more clearer than Its about Time which was badly produced.Its a TRAFFIC album not the High Life keyboardy songs from the eighties.I love TRAFFIC....This will grow on you.
4 of 23 customers found the following review helpful:
 This is Steve Winwood's best work in a long time, 2008-04-30
I have never heard Steve Winwood like this. "Nine Lives" is an excellent album features nine new tracks from Steve. He sounds great with his band. My favorite track is "Fly". This track is purely instrumental for the first minute and a half and turns into a vocal. This song is so peaceful. Paul Booth is so good on the saxophone and flute here. "Dirty City" is a great rock song. Eric Clapton sounds so good playing the guitar here. "Raging Sea" is a groovy sounding track. I like Jose Neto's bass guitar playing here. "I'm Not Drowning" features Steve on the acoustic guitar. He sounds very bluesy here. "At Times We Do Forget" and "Other Shore" are two songs that feature everyone in Steve's band. Richard Bailey provides an excellent beat on the drums. "Other Shore" is such a relaxing track. Karl Vanden Bossche is a talented percussionist bongo player on the track "Hungry Man". I love this new album from Steve Winwood.
5 of 19 customers found the following review helpful:
Winwood Reinvents Classic Rock, 2008-04-29
As well as pays homage to it in a way that only one of the original maestros of Rock could do! A must Buy for Winwood Fans. This work brings Classic Rock into the 21st Century! I see that working with Eric Clapton for the past year has brought Winwood back to his Blind Faith and Classic Traffic Roots i.e. John Barleycorn era. Many of the chords sound familar, I heard chords from past Traffic works like Empty Pages, Paper Sun and Dear Mr. Fantasy in some of the new tracks, as well as similar chords from Yes's Roundabout on the new tune We're All Looking.
The collaboration with Clapton on Dirty City not only revisits the Blind Faith (all too brief) era but expands and enhances each artists growth over the last 40 years!
Hopefully new Rock Artists will listen,learn and move forward into this Expansion of Classic Rock. The door has now been swung open, it is up to the masses to keep it that way. Classic Rock could retake front and center from the long vast wastelands of Pop, amateur contests and Corporate Rock.
Kudos to Winwood for taking the risk and leaving behind his more recent commercial works like Back in The Highlife Again and Arc of The Diver. Steve is one of the leaders today in rock/jazz, rock/folk and rock/blues. Long Live Rock!
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