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Roll With It - Steve Winwood

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  • NeedsBass Electric
  • NeedsDrums Acoustic
  • NeedsKeys Organ - Hammond and others
  • NeedsKeys Piano Acoustic
  • NeedsTrumpet
  • NeedsVocals
  • NeedsSaxophone
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Published on 01 Mar 2025 / In Rock / '80s Rock

"Roll with It" is a song recorded by Steve Winwood for his album Roll with It, released on Virgin Records. It was written by Winwood and long-time collaborator Will Jennings. Publishing rights organization BMI later had Motown songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland credited with co-writing the song due to its resemblance to the Junior Walker hit "(I'm a) Roadrunner". Released in May1988

The single spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of 1988. It topped the Billboard adult contemporary chart for two weeks, and also spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart. In addition, the song reached No. 30 on the R&B chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 53 on the UK Singles Chart. "Roll with It" was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1989, Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal performance. The album Roll with It was also nominated as Album of the Year.

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Bass Electric
Drums Acoustic
Keys Organ - Hammond and others
Keys Piano Acoustic
Trumpet jdbmbiome
Vocals Maurizio
Saxophone jdbmbiome
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Maurizio
Maurizio 9 days ago

I put 2 vocal tracks, I hope they are good because this song has a very high tone!

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Revup67
Revup67 9 days ago

Mauricio - that's outstanding nice work!. On the second backing track at 55 seconds, there's two loud clicks. You can see this in DAW mode. Likely an easy fix.

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Maurizio
Maurizio 8 days ago

@Revup67: I cut out the spot where it seemed to be making that noise. I hope it's better this way!

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Michael Dixon
Michael Dixon 8 days ago

Maurizio- great work on a difficult vocal part!

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Revup67
Revup67 8 days ago

@Maurizio: thanks - looks good :)

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BillBassDude
BillBassDude 10 days ago

Awesome - I’m out til later this evening. I’ll give it a listen. Thank you!

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Michael Dixon
Michael Dixon 10 days ago

Added organ. Timing may need to be adjusted on both keyboard parts.

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Michael Dixon
Michael Dixon 10 days ago

Did piano over. I think I got it right this time. What do you think?

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Revup67
Revup67 10 days ago

sounds quite good..nice work. It's got the pizzazz the song needs.

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Revup67
Revup67 16 days ago

7-7-2025 - drum track completed. Has to be produced and synced. Ignore for now

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