Steve Winwood "Back To The High Life" (1986) -Blue-Eyed Soul / Pop Rock-

 Label : Island Records

 Side One

01 - Higher Love (Steve Winwood & Will Jennings)
02 - Take It As It Comes (Steve Winwood & Will Jennings)
03 - Freedom Overspill (Steve Winwood, George Fleming & James Hooker)
04 - Back In The High Life Again (Steve Winwood & Will Jennings)

Side Two

01 - The Finer Things (Steve Winwood & Will Jennings)
02 - Wake Me Up On Judgement Day (Steve Winwood & Will Jennings)
03 - Split Decision (Steve Winwood & Joe Walsh)
04 - My Love's Leavin' (Steve Winwood & Vivian Stanshall)


Produced by Russ Titelman & Steve Winwood
Engineered by Tom Lord Alge & Jason Corsaro
Mixed by Tom Lord Alge
Originally Mastered Digitally by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, New York
Recorded at Unique Recording Studio, Right Track Recording, Power Station, Giant Sound, New York & Netherturkdonic Studios, Gloucestershire, England
Additional Engineers : Nobby Clark, Chris Lord Alge, Jim Boyer, Dave Greenberg, Bruce Lampcov, Malcolm Pollack & Jon Wolfson
Assistant Engineers : Jeff Lord Alge, Claude Achille, Ed Bruder, Sean Chenery, Rob Eaton, John Goldberger, Roy Hendrickson, Scott Mabuchi, Shiziko Orishige & Steve Rinkoff
Synthesizer & Sequencer Programming : Robby Kilgore


Side One

01 - Higher Love

Steve Winwood : Keyboards, Guitar, Sequencer Programming & Drum Machine Programming
Mickey Curry : Drums
Carole Steele : Tambourine
Randy Brecker : Trumpet
Lew Del Gatto : Baritone & Tenor Sax
Tom Malone : Trombone
Bob Mintzer : Tenor Sax
George Young : Alto Sax
David Frank : Horn Arrangement

02 - Take It As It Comes

Steve Winwood : Keyboards, Guitar, Sequencer Programming & Drum Machine Programming
Mickey Curry : Drums
Carole Steele : Tambourine
Randy Brecker : Trumpet
Lew Del Gatto : Baritone & Tenor Sax
Tom Malone : Trombone
Bob Mintzer : Tenor Sax
George Young : Alto Sax
David Frank : Horn Arrangement

03 - Freedom Overspill

Steve Winwood : Keyboards, Guitar, Sequencer Programming & Drum Machine Programming
Joe Walsh : Slide Guitar
Eddie Martinez : Rhythm Guitar
Steve Ferrone : Drums
Jimmy Bralower : Drum Machine Programming
Carole Steele : Tambourine
Randy Brecker : Trumpet
Lew Del Gatto : Baritone & Tenor Sax
Tom Malone : Trombone
Bob Mintzer : Tenor Sax
George Young : Alto Sax
David Frank : Horn Arrangement

04 - Back In The High Life Again

Steve Winwood : Synthesizer, Piano, Mandolin, Moog Bass & Drum Machine Programming
Rob Mounsey : Additional Synthesizer
John 'JR' Robinson : Drums
James Taylor : Harmony Vocals

Side Two

01 - The Finer Things

Steve Winwood : Keyboards, Synth Solo, Sequencer Programming & Drum Machine Programming
Robby Kilgore : Keyboards
Rob Mounsey : Keyboards
Paul Pesco : Guitar
John 'JR'Robinson : Drums
Jimmy Bralower : Drum Machine Programming
Carole Steele : Congas
Dan Hartman & James Ingram : Backing vocals
Andrew Thomas : PPG Wave Term Synthesizer Programming

02 - Wake Me Up On Judgement Day

Steve Winwood : Synthesizer, Sequencer Programming & Drum Machine Programming
Robby Kilgore : Synthesizer
David Frank : Synthesizer Horns
Nile Rodgers : Guitar 

Ira Siegel : Guitar
John 'JR' Robinson : Drums
Jimmy Bralower : Drum Machine Programming
Carole Steele : Percussion
Jocelyn Brown, Mark Stevens & Andrew Thomas : Backing vocals
Andrew Thomas : Synthesizer Horn Arrangement

03 - Split Decision

Steve Winwood : Synthesizer, Synth Solo, Hammond Organ, Moog Bass & Drum Machine Programming
Joe Walsh : Guitar
John 'JR' Robinson : Drums
Jimmy Bralower : Drum Machine Programming
Carole Steele : Tambourine
Jocelyn Brown, Mark Stevens & Andrew Thomas : Backing vocals

04 - My Love's Leavin'

Steve Winwood : Keyboards, Synth Solo, Guitar, Moog Bass & Drum Machine Programming
Robby Kilgore : Synthesizer Bell
Rob Mounsey : Synthesizer Strings
Carole Steele : Percussion
Arif Mardin : Synthesizer String Arrangement