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Released
  
6 November 1990

Refugees of the Heart(1990)
  
Junction Seven(1997)

Release date
  
6 November 1990

Label
  
Virgin Records

Length
  
47:57

Artist
  
Steve Winwood

Producer
  
Steve Winwood

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Recorded
  
Netherturkdonic Studios (Gloucestershire, England, UK) & Emerald Sound (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)

Genres
  
Rock music, Blue-eyed soul

Similar
  
Steve Winwood albums, Rock music albums

Refugees of the Heart is the sixth solo studio album by Steve Winwood, released in 1990. The album contained the hit single, "One and Only Man", which topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and saw the return of former Traffic bandmate Jim Capaldi to Winwood's songwriting team. By coincidence, a Traffic reunion followed in 1994. Because of that collaboration, Winwood would not record another solo album until late 1997. Also "I Will Be Here" and "Another Deal Goes Down" were released as singles. Winwood stated about the closing track, “In The Light Of Day”: 'When Will and I wrote the song (..) it was our idea of what Nelson Mandela's dream was, while he was in prison. It was really just a fantasy of ours, but that’s what we based the song on.'

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings except where noted.

  1. "You'll Keep on Searching" – 6:19
  2. "Every Day (Oh Lord)" – 5:49
  3. "One and Only Man" – (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) 5:00
  4. "I Will Be Here" – 5:58
  5. "Another Deal Goes Down" – 4:57
  6. "Running On" – 4:18
  7. "Come Out and Dance" – 5:33
  8. "In the Light of Day" – 9:44

Non-album tracks

  • Always (instrumental)
  • In the Light of Day (instrumental version)
    • "Always" was the b-side to "One and Only Man", while the instrumental version of "In the Light of Day" was the b-side to "I Will Be Here". The instrumental version, an edit of the album version's backing track, runs for about 6 minutes and contains some improvisational work at the end which is not on the album version.In 1990, cassette singles were popular, and both of this album's singles were released in cassette single format. There were also CD singles with these b-sides.Winwood rarely produced non-album songs.

    Production

  • Produced by Steve Winwood
  • Executive Producer – John Clarke
  • Engineered & Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge
  • Assistant Engineer – Brian Harding (Nashville)
  • Additional Engineering – Mike Dolan
  • Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
  • Art Direction by Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff & Melanie Nissen
  • Design – Mike Fink
  • Photography – Douglas Brothers

    • Personnel

  • Steve Winwood – vocals, keyboards (1-6, 8), Hammond organ (1, 3-7), Mini Moog solo (2), keyboard bass (3), guitar (3, 7), additional percussion (3), vibes solo (8), additional drums (8), drum programming, keyboard programming, Fairlight programming
  • Mike Lawler – additional keyboards (1, 4)
  • Russ Kunkel – drums (1, 4, 5)
  • Jim Capaldi – drums (2, 3, 7), percussion (3)
  • Eddie Bayers – drums (6)
  • Bashiri Johnson – percussion (1, 2, 4-8)
  • Michael Rhodes – bass guitar (1, 2, 4-7)
  • Anthony Crawford – guitar (1)
  • Larry Byrom – guitar (2, 4, 6, 7), slide guitar (5)
  • Randall Bramblett – soprano saxophone (1), alto saxophone (7), tenor saxophone (8)
  • Jim Horn – alto saxophone (4), baritone & tenor saxophones (7)
  • Harvey Thomson – tenor saxophone (7)
  • Michael Haynes – trumpet (7)

    • Songs

    1You'll Keep on Searching6:21
    2Every Day (Oh Lord)5:51
    3One and Only Man5:03

    References

    Refugees of the Heart Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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