Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Steve Winwood - PBS Soundstage, WTTW Studios, Chicago, IL, 8-27-2004

Here's another episode from that great TV show, "PBS Soundstage." This time, it stars Steve Winwood.

In 2003, Winwood released the studio album "About Time." Despite this concert taking place about a year after the release, he was still touring to support that album. So four of the songs performed come from that album: "Different Light," "Bully," "Walking On," and "Why Can't We Live Together." None of the songs from that album were a hit, so it's possible you might not know them. However, "Why Can't We Live Together" is a cover of a soul hit in the 1970s by Timmy Thomas. 

Otherwise, he played some songs from his time with Blind Faith and Traffic in the 1960s and 70s, plus only one of his big solo hits from the 1980s ("Back in the High Life Again").

Typical episodes of this show were an hour long. However, this episode is close to an hour and a half long. That's because a DVD was released from it later, and the audio here comes from the DVD. Thus, the sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 22 minutes long.

01 Can't Find My Way Home (Steve Winwood)
02 Different Light (Steve Winwood)
03 Empty Pages (Steve Winwood)
04 Bully (Steve Winwood)
05 Glad [Instrumental] (Steve Winwood)
06 Freedom Rider (Steve Winwood)
07 Back in the High Life Again (Steve Winwood)
08 Dear Mr. Fantasy (Steve Winwood)
09 Walking On (Steve Winwood)
10 talk (Steve Winwood)
11 Rainmaker (Steve Winwood)
12 Why Can't We Live Together (Steve Winwood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KwycBTh7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vYZ9ZUPiWQpc7m9/file

The cover is from this exact concert. I took a screenshot from a video. Then I used the Krea AI program to improve the image quality a bit.

3 comments:

  1. Thank you very much. Anything Steve Winwood is always appreciated!

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  2. Thanks for putting this show on here. The audio quality is excellent.
    Steve Winwood is an artist who I have appreciated more and more as I grow older. I wasn’t a huge fan of his 80s solo material, so I sort of dismissed his solo work. I liked Blind Faith , Traffic, and listen to them often, but then I took a dive into his solo albums after the pop hits of the 80s, and I found some excellent music that is frequently on my playlist. And his officially released live albums are such great listens. They don’t venture far from studio material, but the sound is so crisp and clean. Much like this show.
    Sorry for the rambling post, but just wanted to show thanks to you for posting this show.

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