Refugees of the Heart

Refugees of the Heart
Studio album by Steve Winwood
Released	6 November 1990
Recorded	Netherturkdonic Studios (Gloucestershire, England, UK) & Emerald Sound (Nashville, Tennessee, USA)
Genre	Rock, Blue-eyed soul, Pop
Length	47:57
Label	Virgin
Producer	Steve Winwood
Steve Winwood chronology
Roll with It (1988)Roll with It1988 Refugees of the Heart (1990) Junction Seven (1997)Junction Seven1997

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Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Chicago Tribune	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	(C-)[3]
Los Angeles Times	[4]
People	(Neutral)[5]
Robert Christgau	[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]

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.'

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)

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