You and my Uncle are the same age, I'm 53. My Uncle had an amazing album collection when I was probably 9 or 10 I started digging into them every chance I got, and yes music is timeless. In 10 yrs (or less) no one will remember a thing Cardi what's her face ever did
@@richardcranium5048 My niece made me a T shirt it said " I may be old but I saw all the great bands" lol And I did too lol I went AWOL from Fort Dix to see JIMI LOL Glad you can enjoy it, take care.
We are in the presence of greatness Jamel . Being 70 yrs old and a child of the 60's, this is the music of my youth. Every time I listen to this, it's like I'm hearing it for the first time. Your reactions are so pure. You make me smile
Steve Winwood is the man. Jamel, look at all his stuff from Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith, and his solo career from the 80’s. I bet this is one where you know more than you realize.
I can’t find my way home. And I ain’t done nothing wrong. And I cant find my way home. This is a story of anyone who is lost in life and doesn’t know which way to turn. It is a beautiful melancholy melody expressing a common human problem: the chaos of life.
Winwood was 16 when he wrote that. He was playing in pubs at 14, when he joined what would become the Spencer Davis Group. This song is magical and still resonates today.
If you ever felt lost, if you ever walked a street alone, if you ever cried out to an empty room, if you ever needed to be embraced at a darkest moment, this melody, this voice may have been your salvation. I still cry when I hear this song. Thank you!!!!!
Yeah, my eyes tear up also with this song.....a song of my 19th year in life when I was fully alive but struggling with where I was supposed to go and where my home was when I was nearly homeless.
@@agirlandherdad2483 He was 21 when he wrote this, but he'd been with The Spencer Davis Group since he was 15, and he wrote "I'm A Man" when he was 18.
65 and still love this..I'm the only one Left alive there were seven of us in our neighborhood and I'm the only one who made it past 50 everytime I hear the song you remind me each one every one of them R.I.P
Early Winwood - "Gimme Some Loving" with the Spencer Davis Group. Later Winwood - "Higher Love", just a magnificent song. One of the greats of his era, worthy of a deep dive.
This song always makes me teary eyed, long childhood, longer teen years....old before I knee I would be homeless at 20 with tracks, long road to where I am now, 50 bit beaten but still alive with a smile....
If you are going to rank the members of Cream by their level of genius, Ginger Baker definitely comes out on top. As brilliant as Clapton is and was, Ginger Baker was even more brilliant.
Steve Winwood is a musical genius, and deserves far more attention than he gets. He took several years off from the music business, after being disillusioned in the 70s, then came back with the incredible Arc of a Diver album, on which he played every single note, on every single instrument. A B3 virtuoso, without a doubt. And he's written so many wonderful songs. Such a talent!
We saw him a few years ago, opening for Tom Petty. I went in thinking "This should be fun, he's got a few good songs..." I had forgotten how many different groups he had been a part of...I found myself constantly going "Oh yeah, he did this song too!!!" And I'm not sure I've ever seen a performer who looked more appreciative of the fact that the audience was enjoying the heck out of their performance.
I grew up listening to Motown, Blues, Jazz and then British Invasion, Stones, Beatles. I have found these many years that the universal language and slayer of all prejudice is music. If you raise kids with a wide array of music the foundation for racial and ethnic prejudice is never laid.
@Joel Springman You've been denied, my friend. Here's a couple more classics from the same album... Sea of Joy ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z7DVYnaH_oY.html Had to Cry Today ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z4Yo_VbGdMg.html
Also Gimme Some Lovin' - with Spencer Davis Group......think he was 18/19 at the time? You'll just love it Jamel. Song is great and video fun for that time.
Listen to his version with just him and his acoustic guitar sitting in front of a stone fireplace in his later years. Man.......it's great you appreciate great music like this.
It was summertime 1969, I was 17, I was walking down the street and that song started playing out of the sky and I stopped and thought I died and went to heaven, OH MY GOD!
Yes yes yes! I freaking love Steve winwood. Try gimmee some loving by him with the Spencer Davis group. While listening to that song try to keep in mind that he is 15 years old singing it.
Okay you're a little closer. I just googled it and when the song was released he was 18. Still surprised by it because he sounds like a 30-year-old singing.
@@michaellynch5254 It came out in October of 66 in the UK. Not sure exactly when it was released as a single in the U.S. I'm pretty sure it came out in 67. He turned 19 on May 12th of 67.
This was their only album in 1969. This is my favorite all time song. I was 19 then. Ginger Baker was the best. He keeps time with quarter notes with his left leg. He has talked about that in interviews. They did only one live performance as Blind Faith and you see Ginger Baker play. I love them all. The musicians of my late teen years. I love all the other bands they put together also.
This was a great era, Jamel. As you have mentioned before, a lot of big names got together with each other. They usually didn't stay together long but they did some great music.
I agree his voice is haunting, soulful, vulnerable, etc. He was also insanely young. Like 20, or somewhere around there. It's like, "damn, son, you ain't even halfway to the hard stuff, yet."
FM radio in the car blasting down the coast highway in California at midnight, windows down, long hair blowing back. Those were the days Jamal. Hippie heaven.
I grew up on this music and this is one of my favorite songs. I took my wife to see Steve Winwood early in our marriage and she was blown away. It's very refreshing to see a music appreciation channel like this. I also recommend In the Presence of the Lord by Blind Faith.
This is one of my favorite songs. The lyrics are emotional, Winwood's voice is just spectacular, Clapton's intricate guitarwork offsets it perfectly, and Baker and Grech lay down a gentle, flowing frame. Love it!
Ginger Baker was on drums...he also was the drummer with Cream. He passed away awhile back. We had phenomenal music when I was a teen. I appreciate it so much more now that I'm older 💕😊
I promise this a true story. In my early twenties, I was driving home and the freeway was closed. I had drive through a pretty rough neighborhood. Hot Texas summer, car with no A/C and getting some pretty strange looks; let's just say I was nervous. Then this song came on the radio. I laughed out loud and got a couple of very strange looks, but I just smiled and drove on. A couple of minutes later, I got my bearings and, well, found my way home. I always think about that day when I hear this song.
Winwood is great without a doubt. Ginger Baker ya gotta give a little more props to. He was with Clapton in Cream as well. He's the father of "Metal" drummers with his style. But this is one of my favorite all time songs!! You should check out the live version at Hyde park they did of this tune.
Seen the cream live 68 wheels fire tour. Baker may be the father of metal because of his power. But technically hes purely from jazz/off jazz, and strongly influenced by African rhythms/beat. Give Airforce by Baker a listen. ☮✌
@One Voice Yeah I know he is from the jazz community..... but his drumming style was and is still an influence in the metal music industry. I ain't lying look it up. Ginger even talked about it in interviews. This is from Forbes in an interview with Baker. These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have. I’ve seen where Cream is sort of held responsible for the birth of heavy metal. Well, I would definitely go for aborting [laughs]. I loathe and detest heavy metal. I think it is an abortion. A lot of these guys come up and say, “Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.” They don’t seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful. .....and plenty of other sites as well, where he repeated the same thing. www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2015/06/12/creams-ginger-baker-opines-on-heavy-metal-led-zeppelin-beatles/#551e03f05244
And please remember that singers now are JUST AS GOOD as then. And back at that time we recorded multiple takes and made loads of repairs till we got the tuning right! And guess what? We still do.
@@p.a.ivenslife - it is just another tool. Though I am not sure many use it. Melodyne is the industry standard. But we have been using all kinds of methods for correcting or improving tonal quality etc since the fifties. Even back in the days when this was recorded we had ways of correcting out of tune notes, though it was way more complicated and not as good. Most of the time, we did as we do now, - just get the singer to do the line again. It’s quicker. We tend to be much fussier now. That started in the late sixties with multi track recording which allowed more surgical retakes. But a lot of tracks from that time have dodgy notes that now we would probably correct. Mostly it doesn’t matter, but occasionally it makes me wince.
@@Cchogan yeah, I'm aware it isn't used by many outside of the mainstream pop community. I understand the potential in its use. I just prefer the tone of a natural voice, good or bad.
Goosebumps is the absolute correct response! And, no movie, way before "lost" Ginger on drums Probably a reference to a "trip", there's always a minute where everyone feels lost, and then you're found.
Steve Winwood is arguably one of the most talented people in modern music and he makes you feel every note he sings. He and Eric Clapton together were magical, and then throw in the great rhythm section lead by Ginger Baker and Blind Faith's one and only album is a true masterpiece. Keep exploring the world of Winwood, my friend - you will not be disappointed!
This song came at the end of the 60's, when pretty much everybody was lost and disillusioned. It suits the times perfectly. I think there will be the same kind of reaction after 2020 is over as we had when 1968 finally ended (that was an equally F'd-up year). That whole era was like coming-to with a god-awful hangover and realizing that last night you'd destroyed your entire life and everything you loved and believed was gone. Steve Winwood captured these feelings and expressed them in a way we really needed. Steve Winwood is definitely someone whose work you know - he's been making great music since 1965.
well said.... heroin was rising & taking down many. nam was an endless hell hole. mlk and rfk were dead. hippie idealism had turned into altamont violence. things did look bleak & people really needed some sort of buoy to hold onto as they were adrift in a raging sea.... this song is a plea & thank you to God to seek out inner peace & a way out of & off of destructive vice both of personal use & collective societal implosion.
@@kelvinkloud Finally I read from someone who gets it. Most tiny brain dipshits think this song is just about getting high and f'd up like that's something to celebrate. Take in the titles of other songs on the album and there is a lot of spiritual examination going on. The lyrics to me are profound and I'm not particularly religious anymore.
So true. For the last several years I’ve told my students “Things may seem bad but I was alive in 1968, and trust me, it’s not as bad now as it was then.” I stopped saying that this year. Now I tell them “Well at least we don’t have leaders being killed on a regular basis.” That’s about all we can hang our hat on in 2020.
@@charlieross-BRM agree... its poetic spirituality but also tough straight forward advice. winwood is a spiritual person and is effective at getting healing messages across w/o having to beat people over the head w/ it or be judgemental. he did that w/ higher love also.... this song though is more visceral imo. he sums up the narcistic depravity that heavy hard drug usage leads to w/ " come down from your throne & leave your body alone"... the first time I heard those lyrics in this song it hit like a hammer esp considering the context of the time it was written. he lost very good talented friends. much like young says, in the needle & the damage done.
Steve Winwood is an absolute treasure. The almost unknown member of this group was Ric Grech (on bass), he also played with Traffic and Family. He also played on a Gram Parsons record which I find super interesting.
@Nathan Logan I've come across it, it's a super funky album. I never got much into the funk / jazz afrobeat type stuff, though I know Baker really loved it. The only "Jazz" I really get into are some rock bands that incorporate it some. Traffic, Steely Dan, Chicago, etc.
@Nathan Logan I'm less into jazz and more into blues (and some country, super picky about it, even though it's what I was raised around). Acoustic, electric, american delta and Chicago stuff, british, etc. Cant get enough of it. Been listening to 60s and 70s outlaw country my whole life and it's still my favorite overall, but I started a blues kick a few years ago and it hasn't slowed down lol. Freddie King, Albert King, johnny dawkins, lightnin Hopkins, peter green, john Mayall, johnny winter, Allman Bros etc etc
this was back in the days when vinyl was king. everybody had a sound system with a good turn table and huge speakers. head phones were a great way to listen.
This song played at the end of the movie Fandango, which starred Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson, from 1985. It’s about 4 Univ. Texas grads set in the early 70’s, getting away from it all across the ‘wilds of Texas’, each dealing with the coming reality of life. Last scene is one of Costner ( who is the lost soul of the group, trying to evade Vietnam), standing by himself on a bluff, as his character slowly fades away. This song begins playing when you don’t see him anymore. It still gives me goosebumps, even just writing about it. That song is perfectly placed. Amazing. I’m with you Jamal!!
This is the only acoustic song on the album. For songs with Clapton's electric guitar, see "Had To Cry Today", "Presence Of The Lord", or "Sea Of Joy". To see a song featuring a drum solo by Ginger Baker (also formerly in the Cream), see the song "Do What You Like". This group split up after 1 album, but Clapton and Winwood got together at M.S.Gardens in 2008 to play many songs from their past. It's a good DVD, which also features Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile", because Winwood played organ on the original on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland album.
@@edwardmeradith2419 IMO, "Sea of Joy" is the best song on the album. Having said that, every song on the album is excellent! Also really love the long jam song "Do What You Like" with Ginger's great solo!
And to add to the history, Winwood was in the group Traffic with Dave Mason who played guitar on Hendrix's rendition of Zimmerman's All along the watchtower.
Steve Winwood had several hits in the 80s that you will know from retail work, "Higher Love", Valerie, When You See A Chance, Arc of a Diver(beautiful!,
I'm 69 years old, been to a lot of concerts in my lifetime (including Woodstsock). Saw Stevie Winwood a couple of years ago-hands down, one of the best concerts I"ve ever seen!
67 years old here. This one a many others were anthems to many of my peers and myself. Windwood and Clapton did a great version at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival. That one is on RU-vid as well.
song brings tears most every time i hear it... and you got the stank face AND the goosebumps... and this song is so much more than the lyrics and melody ... more than its parts.. so precious...
My musician brother Mike, turned me on to them and many other rockers. As Blacks in DC we were a little different to everyone. Good music lives on!!! Mr. Will
Steve Winwood is the English version of Stevie Wonder in that he is a prodigy with a voice from heaven and apparently he can play any instrument he chooses. His guitar playing is as great as his keyboard work.
I agree. Never thought of it but it’s true. I saw Winwood at the Laid Back Festival about a month after Gregg Allman died. Allman was the creator and was planning on playing but he died. Everyone who played was terrible but Winwood came on last and played for almost 3 hours, about 2 am in the rain. He was fantastic
Gimme Some Lovin, Higher Love, Roll With It, In the Presence of the Lord - Blind Faith did a killer version of the old Buddy Holly song Well Alright. Awesome stuff.
To me, this another song about one being away from home (could be physically or spiritually) and trying to get back to a place of peace that can't be found! This song was in an episode of Supernatural!
Every time this 70 year old reads a comment about legendary Stevie Winwood, tbe experts here drag his debut to some earlier age. So, here goes my take. At birth, upon the smacking of Stevie's butt, he burst into a Ray Charles, Georgia On My Mind tribute with a cracking voice rendered that way in a marathon smoky venue performance the night prior. Now. Who is the next tall tale teller?
The voice description I think you're looking for is angelic or even haunting....very unique voice, amazing talent! Low Spark of High Heel Boys - you won't regret it!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for playing this, I've been waiting for so long for someone to do this one. My kids know that I want this played at my funeral. This is my life song. Love Clapton and his voice is so fantastic in this song and this has so much meaning to me.
Jamel is my new hero in life. You can easily see how he reacts to the music deep down in his soul. Love seeing his reactions to the sounds he's hearing, and the words he's processing. Love your work, don't ever give if up!!!
Hi Jamel. So back in the dark ages of about 1969, I was in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard and took a little trip with my friend Mr. Owsley. I wandered around town for several hours and realized I was very tired and lost. I took refuge in a covered doorway of a building, and in a few minutes this song released itself from the building. I had never heard it, but it gave me great peace. It expressed exactly how I felt at that moment. That memory is crystal clear, even though 53 years ago.
