Awesome performance by legendary performer

Update -Winwood says it was live – send end of story for details Nov 25th

Steve Winwood is a singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. The Hammond B3 organ was Steve Winwood’s set piece instrument although as you can see here he is an accomplished guitarist as well. Winwood is a fellow band member with Eric Clapton in Blind Faith. His biggest hit was Higher Love.  

His thin tenor voice has taken on a reedy sound. The recording setup looks deceptively simple and sounds fantastic. Some have suggested the audio was dubbed in which is likely. Video shared by Bob Lefsetz.

Feedback from Winwood’s people –

I confirm that there were no overdubs and it was 100% live, 2 Mic’s in front of a fire place and a great artist.

P.S. I did put the Mic’s up and press record.

Regards

James Towler

Front of House, Studio & Tour Manager

Wincraft Music

http://www.wincraftstudios.co.uk

For more see Wikipedia and Steve Winwood’s website.

To Bob Lefsetz

I’ve been watching with some degree of amusement the correspondence back and forth regarding the shooting and the recording of the solo acoustic version of “Can’t Find my way Home” which has recently been put up on YouTube in order to encourage a competition for young musicians.  it’s interesting that this is stirred up such emotion and I’m really very flattered that people are so very concerned.

So this has now become a competition of a different sort, to decide who is right and who is wrong as to whether has been any manipulation of the recording or footage. Of course I have nothing to hide and no reason to lie as I’ve made several recordings using multi-track overdubbing and manipulation of audio, in fact “Arc of a Diver” is coming up for its 30th anniversary  and of course that was all done using multi-track multi-take overdubbing techniques, and I don’t think it is cheating or wrong, and that these are just tools in the box with which to make recorded music.

In an attempt to put this matter to rest though, I thought I’d write a message to say that this recording and footage in question was all done in one take, sung and played at the same time with two microphones and one camera.

Any additional technical information can be obtained from james towler

Acoustically yours,

Steve Winwood