This was the 1987 Grammy winner for best engineered non-classical recording. More meticulously crafted than its predecessor ARC OF A DIVER, & more musically adventurous than its follow-up ROLL WITH IT, BACK IN THE HIGH LIFE represents the pinnacle of Steve Winwood's '80s pop output. High production values, interlocking percussion lines, R&B backing vocals, horns, synthesizers & ideas borrowed from various world musics enhance & update Winwood's proclivity for blues, R&B, & rock. His dist