Fuck the contest, you’ve GOT to dial up this solo acoustic version of the Blind Faith classic by Stevie Winwood, it’s truly JAW-DROPPING! Sure, he hasn’t lost his voice, but what will truly blow your mind is the picking.  The video looks like the track sounds, him wearing that jacket sitting by the hearth.  There’s no better late night track than "Can’t Find My Way Home", I’m tingling listening to this.  Truly.  Check this out!

The Steve Winwood ‘Can’t Find My Way Home’ Contest

Winwood Responds:

I’ve been watching with some degree of amusement the correspondence back and forth regarding the shooting and the recording of the solo acoustic version of "Can’t Find my way Home" which has recently been put up on YouTube in order to encourage a competition for young musicians.  it’s interesting that this is stirred up such emotion and I’m really very flattered that people are so very concerned.

So this has now become a competition of a different sort, to decide who is right and who is wrong as to whether has been any manipulation of the recording or footage. Of course I have nothing to hide and no reason to lie as I’ve made several recordings using multi-track overdubbing and manipulation of audio, in fact "Arc of a Diver" is coming up for its 30th anniversary  and of course that was all done using multi-track multi-take overdubbing techniques, and I don’t think it is cheating or wrong, and that these are just tools in the box with which to make recorded music.

In an attempt to put this matter to rest though, I thought I’d write a message to say that this recording and footage in question was all done in one take, sung and played at the same time with two microphones and one camera.

Any additional technical information can be obtained from james towler

Acoustically yours,
Steve Winwood