Revolutions – The Very Best of Steve Winwood


Revolutions – The Very Best of Steve Winwood is the sixth compilation album by Steve Winwood. The album includes music from Winwood's solo career, as well as groups with which he has performed, including The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith. The CD was released as a box set and a single disc. As of October 2014, the box set is out of print, while the single disc is still available. The songs "The Finer Things" and "Roll With It" are exclusive to the single disc version and cannot be found on the box set.
In addition the version of "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" on both versions of this compilation is a different mix where various solos not on the original album version are heard. There is no indication of this on the album, but like other songs on the compilation, it is clearly different.

Reception

Stevie Chick from BBC Music writes: "the four-CD box-set version of Revolutions examines back-catalogue in great depth, but a simultaneously released 16-track single-CD package is faultless."

Track listing

4 CD Box Set

Disc 1

  1. "Keep on Running" 2:49
  2. "Somebody Help Me" 2:04
  3. "Gimme Some Lovin'" 2:58
  4. "I'm a Man" 2:57
  5. "Paper Sun" 4:16
  6. "Coloured Rain" 2:43
  7. "No Face, No Name, No Number" 3:33
  8. "Heaven Is in Your Mind" 4:18
  9. "Smiling Phases" 2:43
  10. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" 5:40
  11. "Pearly Queen" 4:20
  12. "40,000 Headmen" 3:16
  13. "No Time to Live" 5:20
  14. "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring" 3:15
  15. "Shanghai Noodle Factory" 5:04
  16. "Medicated Goo" 3:37
  17. "Withering Tree" 3:12
  18. "Well All Right" 4:28
  19. "Can't Find My Way Home" 3:18
  20. "Presence of the Lord" 4:53
  1. "Stranger to Himself" 3:54
  2. "John Barleycorn " 6:24
  3. "Glad" 7:02
  4. "Freedom Rider" 5:29
  5. "Empty Pages" 4:36
  6. "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" 12:27
  7. "Rainmaker" 7:45
  8. "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory" 6:03
  9. "Something New" 3:57
  10. "Walking in the Wind" 6:47
  11. "When the Eagle Flies" 4:26
  12. "Mozambique" 4:27
All tracks by Traffic

Disc 3

  1. "Vacant Chair" 6:53
  2. "While You See a Chance" 5:16
  3. "Arc of a Diver" 5:29
  4. "Spanish Dancer" 6:11
  5. "Night Train" 7:51
  6. "Valerie" 4:08
  7. "Higher Love" 5:49
  8. "Freedom Overspill" 4:17
  9. "Back in the High Life Again" 4:23
  10. "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" 4:29
  11. "Spy in the House of Love" 4:45
  12. "Different Light" 6:40
  13. "Dirty City 7:48
All tracks by Steve Winwood

Disc 4

  1. "This Hammer" 2:19
  2. "Waltz for Lumumba" 4:19
  3. "When I Come Home" 1:58
  4. "Love" 3:05
  5. "In the Light of Day" 9:43
  6. "There's a River" 4:43
  7. "Hold On" 4:29
  8. "The Morning Side" 5:12
  9. "Far From Home" 8:36
  10. "Holy Ground" 7:50
  11. "State of Grace" 7:18
  12. "Why Can't We Live Together" 6:43
  13. "Domingo Morning" 5:10
  1. The Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin" 2:57
  2. The Spencer Davis Group - "I'm a Man" 2:57
  3. Traffic - "40,000 Headmen" 3:16
  4. Traffic - "No Face No Name, No Number" 3:32
  5. Traffic - "Dear Mr. Fantasy" 5:37
  6. Traffic - "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys" 11:31
  7. Traffic - "Glad" 7:01
  8. Blind Faith - "Can't Find My Way Home" 3:17
  9. Steve Winwood - "While You See a Chance" 4:10
  10. Steve Winwood - "Valerie" 4:07
  11. Steve Winwood - "Spanish Dancer 2010" 3:30
  12. Steve Winwood - "The Finer Things" 4:11
  13. Steve Winwood - "Higher Love" 5:48
  14. Steve Winwood - "Back in the High Life Again" 4:23
  15. Steve Winwood - "Roll with It" 4:29
  16. Steve Winwood - "Dirty City" 4:03
  17. Steve Winwood - "Don't You Know What The Night Can Do?" 4:29

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