Roll with It (album)

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Roll with It
Studio album by Steve Winwood
Released	June 1988
Recorded	1987-88
Genre	Rock, Blue-eyed soul
Length	44:35
Label	Virgin Records
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Steve Winwood chronology
Back in the High Life (1986) Roll with It (1988) Refugees of the Heart (1990)

Roll with It is the fifth solo album by blue-eyed soulster Steve Winwood. It topped the album charts in the United States, and has sold over three million copies. The single "Roll with It" topped the singles chart, while "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" (U.S. #6) and "Holding On" (U.S. #11) were also big hits. "Hearts on Fire" and "Put on Your Dancing Shoes" also saw radio airplay.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Awards 3 Personnel 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

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

1. Roll With It – 5:20 (Winwood, Jennings, Holland, Dozier, Holland)
2. Holding On – 6:15
3. The Morning Side – 5:14
4. Put on Your Dancing Shoes – 5:11
5. Don't You Know What the Night Can Do? – 6:54
6. Hearts on Fire – 5:15 (Winwood, Jim Capaldi)
7. One More Morning – 4:58
8. Shining Song – 5:28

[edit] Awards

1988 Grammy Awards, Best Engineered Album, Non Classical

[edit] Personnel

• Steve Winwood - Bass guitar, guitar, piano, drums, keyboards, Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, programming, producer
• Paul Pesco - Guitar
• Robbie Kilgore - Keyboards
• Mike Lawler - Keyboards
• John "J.R." Robinson - Drums
• Jimmy Bralower - Percussion, drum machine
• Bashiri Johnson - Percussion
• Andrew Love - Tenor sax
• Wayne Jackson - Trombone, trumpet
• The Memphis Horns - Horn arrangements
• Mark Williamson - Background vocals
• Tessa Niles - Background vocals
• Tom Lord-Alge - Tambourine, producer, engineer, mixing
• Jeff Lord-Alge - Assistant engineer
• Jeffrey Kent Ayeroff - Art Direction
• Lee Charteris - Production coordination
• Jon Clarke - Executive producer
• Mick Haggerty - Art direction, design
• Ted Jensen - Mastering
• Mary Kettle - Assistant engineer
• Herb Ritts - Photography
• Paul Shubat - Assistant engineer

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1988	The Billboard 200	1
1988	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	93

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1988	"Roll With It"	Billboard Hot 100	1
1988	"Roll With It"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
1988	"Roll With It"	Adult Contemporary	1
1988	"Roll With It"	Hot Dance Music/Club Play	21
1988	"Roll With It"	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Track	30
1988	"Put on Your Dancing Shoes"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	25
1988	"Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	1
1988	"Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?"	Billboard Hot 100	6
1989	"Holding On"	Adult Contemporary	1
1989	"Holding On"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	2
1989	"Holding On"	Billboard Hot 100	11
1989	"Hearts on Fire"	Adult Contemporary	22
1989	"Hearts on Fire"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	22
1989	"Hearts on Fire"	Billboard Hot 100	53

Preceded by Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses

Billboard 200 number-one album August 20 - August 26, 1988

Succeeded by Tracy Chapman by Tracy Chapman