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{{Infobox album
| name         = Junction Seven
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Steve Winwood]]
| cover        = Junction Seven.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = {{Start date|1997|06|02|df=y}}
| recorded     = 1996
| studio       = Netherturkdonic Studios, Gloucestershire, England
| genre        = [[Funk]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gallo |first1=Phil |title=Steve Winwood |url=https://variety.com/1997/music/reviews/steve-winwood-1200450232/ |website=Variety |access-date=1 April 2023 |date=11 June 1997}}</ref>
| length       = 57:36
| label        = [[Virgin Records|Virgin]]
| producer     = Steve Winwood, [[Narada Michael Walden]]
| prev_title   = [[Refugees of the Heart]]
| prev_year    = 1990
| next_title   = [[About Time (Steve Winwood album)|About Time]]
| next_year    = 2003
| misc         = {{Singles
 | name        = Junction Seven
 | type        = [[Studio album]]
 | single1     = Spy in the House of Love
 | single1date = 1997
 | single2     = Gotta Get Back to My Baby
 | single2date = 1997
}}
}}

{{Music ratings
| rev1 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev1Score = {{Rating|1|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Staunton |first=Terry |date=July 1997 |title=Steve Winwood: ''Junction 7'' |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |page=97 |issue=2}}</ref>
}}

'''''Junction Seven''''' is the seventh solo studio album by English musician and songwriter [[Steve Winwood]], released in June 1997. The album broke the Top 40 in the UK<ref>[http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/steve%20winwood/ Steve Winwood in the UK Charts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217190557/http://www.theofficialcharts.com/artist/_/steve%20winwood/ |date=2011-02-17 }}, The Official Charts. Retrieved September 28, 2011.</ref> but did not sell well in the US, and Winwood took a six-year break from making solo albums (returning in 2003 with ''[[About Time (Steve Winwood album)|About Time]]''). This album was co-produced with [[Narada Michael Walden]], while Winwood's wife Eugenia co-wrote several songs. [[Des'ree]] provided vocals on 'Plenty Lovin'.

Junction 7 is the nearest motorway junction to Winwood's childhood home, at [[Great Barr]], Birmingham.

== Track listing ==

# "Spy in the House of Love"  (Winwood, [[Narada Michael Walden]], [[Jim Capaldi]]) – 4:46
# "Angel of Mercy"  (Winwood, Walden, Capaldi) – 5:02
# "Just Wanna Have Some Fun"  (Winwood, Walden) – 4:57
# "Let Your Love Come Down"  (Winwood, Walden, Eugenia Winwood, Capaldi) – 5:48
# "Real Love"  (Winwood, Walden, Eugenia Winwood) – 5:21
# "Fill Me Up"  (Winwood, Eugenia Winwood) – 4:27
# "Gotta Get Back to My Baby"  (Winwood, Eugenia Winwood) – 4:52
# "Someone Like You"  (Winwood, Walden, Eugenia Winwood) – 4:39
# "[[Family Affair (Sly & the Family Stone song)|Family Affair]]"  ([[Sly Stone|Sylvester Stewart]]) – 5:17
# "Plenty Lovin'"  (Winwood, Walden) – 5:57
# "Lord of the Street"  (Winwood, Walden, Capaldi) – 5:26

== Personnel ==
* [[Steve Winwood]] – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (1, 10, 11), guitar solos (1), [[Wurlitzer electric piano]] (2), [[Hammond B3 organ]] (2, 3, 11), [[Wah pedal|wah wah guitar solo]] (2), [[clavinet]] (3, 11), synth sax solo (3), [[Electric organ|organ]] (4), lead guitar (4), acoustic piano (5, 9, 11), acoustic guitar (6), additional keyboards (7), [[claves]] (7), horn arrangements (7), percussion (9)
* Michael McEvoy – additional keyboards (1, 2, 5), voice (2), synth vibes (4), additional acoustic piano (4), bass (5, 6), keyboards (6, 8), [[dobro]] (6), drum programming (6, 8), synth strings (8, 10), bass programming (8)
* [[Narada Michael Walden]] – keyboards (1, 3, 5, 8–10),  bass (1, 3, 8), drums (1, 9, 11), drum programming (1–6, 8, 9, 11), Hammond B3 bass (2), percussion (2, 3, 5, 9, 11), synthesizers (3, 11), organ (4), cymbals (8), synth bass (9)
* Frank Martin – keyboards (3–5, 11), programming (3–5, 11), bass (5)
* Rebeca Mauleón-Santana – acoustic piano (7), horn arrangements (7)
* Jimi Fischer – wah wah guitar (1), additional drum programming (2), additional acoustic piano (4), additional bass (4)
* Vernon "Ice" Black – guitar (3)
* [[Lenny Kravitz]] – guitar (4)
* [[Nile Rodgers]] – guitar (9)
* [[José Neto (musician)|José Neto]] – acoustic guitar, [[Classical guitar|nylon electric guitar]] (10), guitar solo (10)
* Marc Van Wageningen – bass (7)
* Myron Dove – electric bass (9)
*  Gary Brown – electric bass (10)
* [[Gigi Gonaway]] – percussion (1), [[MIDI]] drums (11)
* [[Walfredo Reyes Jr.]] – percussion (3, 4, 7, 11), drums (7)
* [[Walfredo de los Reyes|Walfredo Reyes Sr.]] – percussion (7), [[timbales]] (7)
* [[Daniel de los Reyes|Daniel Reyes]] – congas (7)
* [[Jerry Hey]] – string arrangements and conductor (2, 5, 9), trumpet (3, 4), horn arrangements (3, 4)
* Nathan Rubin – concertmaster (2, 5, 9)
* [[Marc Russo]] – saxophone (3, 4)
* Melecio Magdaluyo – saxophone (7)
* Wayne Wallace – trombone (3, 4)
* Jeff Cressman – trombone (7)
* Louis Fasman – trumpet (7)
* Bill Ortiz – trumpet (7)
* Nikita Germaine – backing vocals (1–4, 7, 9, 11)
* Tina Gibson – backing vocals (1–4, 7, 9, 11)
* [[Commodores|Skyler Jett]] – backing vocals (1–3, 7, 9, 11)
* Tony Lindsey – backing vocals  (1–3, 7, 9)
* Annie Stocking – backing vocals (1–4, 7, 9, 11)
* Sandy Griffith – backing vocals (4, 8)
* [[Claytoven Richardson]] – backing vocals (4, 8)
* Simone Sauphanor – backing vocals (6, 7)
* [[Ruby Turner]] – backing vocals (6, 7)
* Eugenia Winwood – spoken word (6)
* [[Des'ree]] – lead vocals (10)

'''Party People on "Gotta Get Back To My Baby"'''
* Nikita Germaine, Tina Gibson, Skyler Jett, Tony Lindsey and Annie Stocking

== Production ==
* Produced and arranged by Steve Winwood and Narada Michael Walden.
* Production administrator – Tony DeFranco
* Production coordinators – Janice Lee, Cherice Miller, Shiloh Hobel and Kulan Kevin Walden.
* Recorded and mixed by David Frazer
* Second engineer – Mick Dolan
* [[MIDI]] and assistant engineer on Tracks 1–4, 7 & 11 – Jeff Gray
* Additional engineers – Marc "Elvis" Reyburn (Tracks 3 & 9); Jim Labinski (Track 4); Gary Tole (Track 9).
* Recorded at Netherturkdonic Studios (Turkdean, Gloucestershire, UK) and Tarpan Studios (San Raphael, California, US).
* Studio Assistant at Netherturkdonic Studios – Andy Davies
* Track 4 recorded at Le Crib (New York, NY).
* Track 9 recorded at [[A&M Studios]] (Los Angeles, CA).
* Mixed at Netherturkdonic Studios 
* Mastered by [[Ted Jensen]] at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
* Creative Director and Project Manager – Eugenia Winwood
* Photography – [[Annie Leibovitz]]
* Personal Assistant to Steve Winwood – Viv Phillips
* Management – Mick Newton and Ron Weisner

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Chart (1997)
! Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Flanders|42|artist=Steve Winwood|album=Junction Seven|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 28, 2025}}
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|15|artist=Steve Winwood|album=Junction Seven|id=2543|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 28, 2025}}
|-
!scope="row"|Japanese Albums ([[Oricon]])<ref name="JPN">{{cite book|title=Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005|publisher=[[Oricon|Oricon Entertainment]]|location=Roppongi, Tokyo|year=2006|isbn=4-87131-077-9|language=ja}}</ref>
| align="center"| 60
|-
{{album chart|Scotland|50|date=19901111|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 28, 2025}}
|-
{{album chart|Sweden|55|artist=Steve Winwood|album=Junction Seven|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 28, 2025}}
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|38|artist=Steve Winwood|album=Junction Seven|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 28, 2025}}
|-
{{album chart|UK2|32|date=19970608|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 28, 2025}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|123|artist=Steve Winwood|rowheader=true|accessdate=January 28, 2025}}
|}

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