Steve Winwood is the debut solo album

Album

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 by blue-eyed soul

Blue-eyed soul

Blue-eyed soul is a media term that was used to describe rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists, with a strong pop music influence. The term was first used in the mid-1960s to describe white artists who performed soul and R&B that was similar to the music of the Motown and...

ster Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...

. It was released three years after the break-up of Traffic

Traffic (band)

Traffic were an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason...

. Despite high commercial expectations, it did not sell well, reaching number 22 on the Billboard 200

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 album chart. Winwood was not able to launch a successful single from the album.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Winwood and 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...

, except where noted

1. "Hold On" – 4:33
2. "Time Is Running Out" – 6:30
3. "Midland Maniac"(Winwood) – 8:32
4. "Vacant Chair"(Winwood, Viv Stanshall) – 6:54
5. "Luck's In" – 5:23
6. "Let Me Make Something in Your Life" – 5:33

Personnel

• Steve Winwood - Synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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  , lead vocals, producer
• Nicole Winwood - Background vocals
• 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...
  
   - Percussion, background vocals
• Willie Weeks
  Willie Weeks
  Willie Weeks is an American bass guitarist. He has gained fame performing with famous musicians in a wide variety of genres. He has been one of the most in-demand session musicians throughout his career. Weeks has also gained notoriety touring with many of rock's heavyweights throughout his career...
  
   - Guitar, bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Rebop Kwaku Baah
  Rebop Kwaku Baah
  Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah was a Ghanaian percussionist perhaps best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can.-Biography:...
  
   - Percussion, conga
  Conga
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• Brother James - Percussion
• Junior Marvin
  Junior Marvin
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   (credited as Junior Hanson and Julian [Jr] Marvin) - Guitar
• Andy Newmark
  Andy Newmark
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   - Drums
• John Susswell - Drums
• Alan Spenner - Bass guitar
• Robert Ash - Assistant Engineer
• Chris Blackwell
  Chris Blackwell
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  - Producer
• Phill Brown - Engineer
• Fin Costello - Photography
• Ray Doyle - Assistant Engineer
• Lee Hulko - Mastering
• James Hutcheson - Cover Design, Paintings
• Mark Miller Mundy - Producer, Associate Producer

Charts

Chart (1977)	Peak position
The Billboard 200	22