Refugees of the Heart is the sixth solo album by Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood

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, released in 1990. The album contained the hit single, "One and Only Man", which topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks

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 chart and saw the return of former Traffic

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 bandmate Jim Capaldi

Jim Capaldi

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 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.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings

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 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
   Jim Capaldi
   Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...
   
   ) 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 single

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s 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
• Engineered By Tom Lord-Alge & Mike Dolan
• Mixed By Tom Lord-Alge

Personnel

• Drums, Percussion: Steve Winwood, Eddie Bayers
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  , Jim Capaldi
  Jim Capaldi
  Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...
  
  , Russ Kunkel
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• Bass: Michael Rhodes, Steve Winwood (Keyboard bass)
• Guitars: Steve Winwood, Anthony Crawford, Larry Byrom
  Larry Byrom
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• Keyboards: Steve Winwood, Mike Lawler
• Vibraphone: Steve Winwood
• Saxophones: Randall Bramblett, Jim Horn
  Jim Horn
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  , Harvey Thompson
• Trumpet: Michael Haynes
• Drum Programming: Steve Winwood