WCSX Classic Cuts : Roll With It
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Steve Winwood: “Roll With It”
The Hook: A back-to-the-roots R&B song.
Album: Roll With It
Year: 1988
Writers: Steve Winwood, Will Jennings, Holland-Dozier-Holland (The Motown songwriters got credit after BMI complained about the song’s similarity to Junior Walker’s “(I’m a) Roadrunner”.)
Stats: Topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks.
Background: “Roll With It” is one of Winwood’s four number-one solo singles. He talks about what it represented for him at the time.
Steve Winwood on “Roll With It.” OC:…of record. :17
“It ended up being like a party piece, you know. It’s music for partying to, if there is such a thing. That wasn’t particularly the idea, but you know I’ve always loved R&B and that was a kind of getting back to the roots kind of record.”
