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Traffic was an English rock band whose members came from the West Midlands. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group whose early singles were influenced by The Beatles[citation needed], and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as keyboards like the Mellotron, reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz and improvisational techniques in their music. Their first three singles were "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", and "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush".
After disbanding in 1969, during which time Winwood joined Blind Faith, Traffic reunited in 1970 to release the critically acclaimed album John Barleycorn Must Die. The band's line-up varied from this point until they disbanded again in 1975, although a partial reunion, with Winwood and Capaldi, took place in 1994.
Traffic's singer, keyboardist and occasional guitarist Steve Winwood had success as a musician prior to joining Traffic, becoming the frontman of the Spencer Davis Group at age 15 in 1963. The Spencer Davis Group released four Top Ten singles and three Top Ten albums in the United Kingdom, as well as two Top Ten singles in the United States.
Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi, guitarist Dave Mason, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood when they jammed together at The Elbow Room, a club in Aston, Birmingham.[2] After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic.[1] Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write and rehearse new music.
Traffic signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records label (where Winwood's elder brother Muff, also a member of the Spencer Davis Group, later became a record producer and executive), and their debut single "Paper Sun" became a UK hit in mid-1967. Their second single, Mason's psych-pop classic "Hole in My Shoe", was an even bigger hit, and it became one of their best-known tracks, but it set the stage for increasing friction between Winwood and Mason, the group's principal songwriters. The band's third single, "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush", was made for the soundtrack of the 1967 British feature film of the same name. Their debut album was Mr. Fantasy, produced by Jimmy Miller, and like the singles, was a hit in the UK but not as big in the US or elsewhere, although it did reach #88 and stayed on the charts for 22 weeks in the US.
Mason quit the group after the release of Mr Fantasy but rejoined for their second album, Traffic, released in 1968, which included the original version of Mason's "Feelin' Alright", which was later covered with great success by Joe Cocker and Three Dog Night. The band began touring the US in late 1968, which led to the following year's release of Traffic's next album, Last Exit, one side of which was recorded live. In 1968 Winwood, Wood and Mason also contributed to the sessions for the watershed Jimi Hendrix double-album Electric Ladyland, and Mason played acoustic guitar on Hendrix's landmark cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower".
Traffic released The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971), which was a Top 10 American album but did not chart in the UK; the LP is also notable for its striking die-cut cover. It sold over half a million copies in 1972 when it received a gold disc, and was awarded a R.I.A.A. platinum disc in March 1976 for over a million total sales.[3] Once again, however, personnel problems wracked the band as Capaldi began a solo career, and Grech and Gordon left the band. Grech and Gordon were replaced by drummer Roger Hawkins and bassist David Hood, the rhythm section of the famed Muscle Shoals Sound Studio house band.
The new lineup (Winwood, Capaldi, Wood, Kwaku Baah, Hawkins, Hood) toured America in early 1972 to promote the LP, and their concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on 21 February was recorded in multitrack audio and captured on colour videotape with multiple cameras. The 64-minute performance, which features a selection of Traffic classics in excellent stereo sound, is thought to be the only extended live footage of the group. It was evidently not broadcast on television at the time, but was later released on home video and has recently been reissued on DVD.
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All you have to do is touch my hand / To show me you understand / And something happens to me / That's some kind of wonderful .. Any time my little world is blue / I just have to look at you / And everything seems to be / Some kind of wonderful .......I know I can't express this feeling of tenderness / There's so much I want to say but the right words just don't come my way .... but in your arms this world is a happy place And something happens to me ... that's some kind of wonderful
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
Beautiful haunting song and no it's not the fine flute it's just a melody that bores into a brain resulting not in seizures and death but some kind of wonderful (euphoria).
11xzxzxz 1 year ago
Thanks, best live traffic vid I've seen. Great Winwood vocals. Saw him with Blind Faith 1969, the day of the first walk on the moon, Baltimore Civic Center. Same stage saw Jimi May 16 1969: when concert ended at midnight it was my 19th birthday= some present. Saw Cream same venue Nov 3 68, best band/show I ever saw. Check out Stevie tearing it up with EC at Madison Square garden recently. Anybody got any live Traffic 67 or 68 with Dave Mason, if so please post.
guitar1067 1 year ago