Today (August 2nd) celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Talking Back to the Night, the third solo studio album from Steve Winwood. This record continued his chart momentum in the UK started with his self-titled debut and its follow up Arc of a Diver (click here and here for my reviews of those two albums respectively); it went to number 6 on the UK charts. In the US, the album stopped its climb at number 28 on the Billboard Hot 200.
Winwood played all instruments on the album and co-wrote the tracks with Will Jennings; Winwood did the music and Jennings did the lyrics. His first wife Nicole, who he was married to from 1978 to 1986, provided backing vocals.
