I think young people deliberately make it very complicated with all the genres and sub-genres because they don’t want older people to understand it - but the more I learn about it, I’m getting quite interested in it.” I think the next great composers will be DJs and producers. I think it has the potential to be an incredible compositional tool, and there are some people in it who I think are making incredible pieces of music. “The trouble is EDM sort of sounds like people don’t have any input into it. “I’m actually quite interested in certain forms of dance music,” reveals Winwood, though he shies away from the EDM tag. But I’m still keen to play I’ve been doing it since I was 14 years old.
“It’s just by age after three, four weeks, it’s enough for me. “I can’t really do the very long tours, three or four months at a time,” Winwood acknowledges. He’s still enthusiastic about playing live, although the tour durations have become shorter in recent years. Winwood continues to be a road warrior he toured the North American east coast earlier this year and starts up in Europe next week, with a North American west coast trek slated for the fall and the Midwest in February. I’m very lucky to have been working for a long time with Jose Neto, who combines the rock of Hendrix and Jimmy Page with Brazilian harmonies and rhythms. The bass lines are much more simplified, and it creates a space, and also makes the rhythm guitar much more crucial. “I’m a bit of a control freak, so I feel that I can control the band by playing the bass as well. “There aren’t too many people who play in this style,” Winwood notes. He plays the bass parts on foot pedals, modeled after the jazz organ trio model of Jimmy Smith, and Winwood says the configuration gives him a certain amount of space that allows for more improvisation and tinkering with the song arrangements. Winwood plays keyboards and guitar in the current group, which features Jose Neto on guitar, Richard Bailey on drums, Paul Booth on woodwinds and organ and Edson “Cafe” Da Silva on percussion. “I think it’s a bit more than just live versions of what’s on the records, you know?” “After a while of collecting these things, I think there’s enough stuff here we can put it out, and it’s quite interesting,” he continues. It’s more interesting to us, and we hope it’s more interesting to the listener.”
“But what I’ve tried to do with the people in the various bands I’ve played with - particularly with the band I’ve been working with the last 10, 15 years or so - is we try and reinvent some of the songs that I’m known for and I’m expected to play. “Obviously when I’m playing live shows I’m expected to play a lot of things,” Winwood tells Billboard. Jackson Browne, Steve Winwood, Little Steven Headlining Third Laid Back Festival in Honor of…
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