Q: How can you play guitar on stage with Eric Clapton and not get intimidated? (Winwood performed, fearlessly, with Clapton at Madison Square Garden in 2008.)Ī: It is a bit daunting. I've been doing that for the past more than 50 years now, so it's sort of ingrained. It isn't very popular, especially when you have children, to try to explain that to them. Q: Why are you still touring? Do you still like it?Ī: I never actually had a real job. How did you do it?Ī: I supposed the real answer is I don't know … I've always been interested and fascinated by music and still am, and it's the music that fascinates me, not necessarily the interaction with any sort of audience. Q: You’ve transformed your music through the years but always managed to find an audience. We just happened to be there in the right place. We weren't aiming for that market in any way. radio went from AM to FM, and so the way it seems to work in America is that AM played the Top 40 and FM wanted for some reason to play these long tracks, the 15-minute long jams, with not much talking, and of course that's exactly what we were doing. How did you get that played on rock radio?Ī: What happened then is Traffic were quite happily playing exactly the music that we wanted to, without paying any attention to what anybody else wanted … and at that same time U.S.
Q: “John Barleycorn Must Die” (from 1970) was essentially instrumental jazz.
Forty Thousand Headmen Nowhere Is Their Freedom Don't Be Sad Riding High No Time To Live Sad And Deep As You (Live) (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired Holy Ground Gimme Some Lovin' Something New This Train Won't Stop Utterly Simple State Of Grace House For Everyone Glad Graveyard People Far From Home Just For You Means To An End Withering Tree Am I What I Was Or Am I What I Am I Just Want To Know Vaikin Veel Can't Find My Way Home Tuul Sittin' Here Thinkin' Of My Love Teineteisele Feelin' Good (Live At The Fillmore West) Memories Of A Rock 'n Rolla Roll Right Stones Blind Man (Live At The Filmore West) Forty Thousand Headman (Live) Cryin' To Be Heard Hope I Never Find Me There Every Night Every Day Love Some Kinda Woman Dealer Paper Sun No Face, No Name, No Number Medicated Goo Many A Mile To Freedom Light Up Or Leave Me Alone John Barleycorn Hole In My Shoe Hidden Treasure Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush Here Comes A Man Heaven Is In Your Mind Freedom Rider Feelin' Alright Empty Pages Dear Mr.We caught up with him on a phone call from his house in England’s glorious Lake District, where he lives with his Nashville wife, Eugenia Crafton.
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