I’ve been making monthly playlists on my phone the last few months, and my June playlist was overflowing with over 100 artists and songs. Here are a few that I can’t stop listening to.
Steve Winwood, “Higher Love”
In the 1980s, Steve Winwood became a solo pop star after leading the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith, and hearing this hit again in a bar inspired me to put it on my playlist. This gloriously buoyant record is one of the few tracks that is guaranteed to make me want to dance–no guarantees about following through, though. The record is heavily percussive, drenched in gospel influences, and, of course, enhanced by Winwood’s bluesy exuberance.