I am currently selling off my personal record collection and this is one of many I will be listing over the next few months.

The album is an extremely rare, long deleted American import, double LP album, released in May 1971, following Steve Winwoods career from 1965 up until 1971. It features a very detailed 6 page booklet, tracks by the Spencer Davis Group, Powerhouse, Traffic & Blind Faith. The album may also be a mispressing, as Side One backs with Side Four and Side Two with Side Three. I have never ever seen this LP, other than my own, anywhere. It is simply called "WINWOOD".

Both the cover and records are quite heavy. The only info I have found on this record is here, off the net;

STEVE WINWOOD

Reviewed on this page:

• Stevie Winwood "Winwood" (United Artists UAS-9950) 1972
• Third World "Aiye-Keta" (Island Help 14) 1973
• Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve "Go" (Island ILPS 9387) 1976
• Stomu Yamashta "Go - Live From Paris" (Island ISLP 10) 1976
• Steve Winwood "Steve Winwood" (Island ILPS 9494) 1977
• Steve Winwood "Refugees Of The Heart" (Virgin V2 91405) 1990

Steve Winwood began his career in the mid-'60's as the teenage singer/guitarist/keyboardist for the Spencer Davis Group, the blue-eyed soul band that gave us the classic "Gimme Some Lovin'". He possessed remarkable talent beyond his years, having first played in a band with his father at the age of eight. In 1967, Winwood felt a need to expand his musical horizons, and formed the eclectic jam band Traffic. That band blended various music forms -- rock, pop, r&b, jazz, psychedelia -- into its own unique sound. Winwood's career had a second wind in the '80's, when he became a chart-topping multi-platinum solo artist. His pop stardom faded at the end of that decade, but Winwood continues to perform to this day. His 2003 album About Time showed him making a surprising return to the jam-band sound of Traffic. A few recordings from his past, including some of his lesser-known '70's recordings, are now out of print.

Not to be confused with Winwood's 1977 solo debut (more on that later), the 1972 release Winwood was a 2-LP compilation of songs from Winwood's '60's groups, featuring seven songs from the Spencer Davis Group, twelve from Traffic (all of which predate the 1971 album The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys), and one each from two supergroups that Winwood formed with Eric Clapton. A better song than "Sea Of Joy" probably could have been used to represent Blind Faith, but it's interesting to hear Robert Johnson's "Cross Roads" performed by Powerhouse. That group was another short-lived Clapton/Winwood project which only had three songs released on a 1967 Elektra Records sampler called What's Shakin'. Because we have since been spoiled by box sets, one could argue that this compilation could have used at least one more song apiece from Blind Faith and Powerhouse. But for a 1972 double-LP, Winwood was nearly as good an introduction to his pre-1971 work as anyone could have put together.

Track Listing:

SIDE ONE

1. KEEP ON RUNNING - Spencer Davis Group
2. SOMEBODY HELP ME - Spencer Davis Group
3. GOODBYE STEVIE - Spencer Davis Group
4. CROSS ROADS - Powerhouse
5. GIMME SOME LOVIN' - Spencer Davis Group

SIDE TWO

1. I'M A MAN - Spencer Davis Group
2. CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT - Spencer Davis Group
3. STEVIE'S BLUES - Spencer Davis Group
4. PAPER SUN - Traffic
5. HEAVEN IS IN YOUR MIND - Traffic
6. COLOURED RAIN - Traffic

SIDE THREE

1. DEAR MR. FANTASY - Traffic
2. SMILING PHASES - Traffic
3. DEALER - Traffic
4. MEDICATED GOO - Traffic
5. FORTY THOUSAND HEADMEN - Traffic
6. VAGABOND VIRGIN - Traffic

SIDE FOUR

1. SEA OF JOY - Blind Faith
2. EMPTY PAGES - Traffic
3. STRANGER TO HIMSELF - Traffic
4. FREEDOM RIDER - Traffic

COMPILATIONS:

1. WINWOOD (2 x LP) (withdrawn)

Booklet

05/71

UA

UAS-9950

US

X

2. WINWOOD (2 x LP)

/72

UA

UAS-9964

US

X

3. STEVIE WINWOOD & FRIENDS

/72

SPRINGBOARD

SPB-4040

US

X

4. CHRONICLES

IS

10/87

ISLAND

SSW 1

UK

?

1987

ISLAND

925660-1

US

IS

1987

ISLAND

208 595

GER

X

IS

1987

ISLAND

SSW 1

SWE

X

?

1987

BAN

SSW 1

ISR

IS

11/87

ISLAND

R28D-2097

JAP

5. KEEP ON RUNNING

07/91

ISLAND

ILPS 9975

UK

The records and cover are in good condition, as is the inner attached booklet, but page one has a very small white speck as if something had stuck to it and come off along with the peach booklet colour. The cover has been clipped on the bottom, fold, corner, as seen in images.

The catalogue number is ; UAS-9950

Postage and Packaging (the records are sent out in specially constructed LP packaging boxes, please take this into consideration when reviewing postal costs, thankyou.) ;

POSTAGE FOR THIS RECORD INCLUDES INSURANCE. IF You Do Not Want The Insurance, please Let Me Know And I will Adjust The Invoice Accordingly.

UK £6.50 / Europe £9.50 / Rest Of The World £11.50

Any questions, please fell free to ask.

Thankyou for looking and keep an eye out for my other LP's, ranging from folk to blues, heavy rock to prog rock and some Woodstock generation material.