Traffic - Last Exit
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Music CD Cover Artist: Traffic Edition: Music CD Format: Live, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2001-02-27 Music Label: Island Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Last Exit Album
Free Music Review: Contractual Obligation Album
Hit: 3 Stars
Cobbled together from a variety of singles and unreleased live tracks, Last Exit is surprisingly cohesive for this type of project. The stand out tracks include Mason's solo single b side (which features the other members of Traffic hence its inclusion on this collection)Just For You and Winwood's powerful dirge Withering Tree. The latter was original released as the b side to the single Feelin' Alright in the US. Featuring One of Winwood and Capaldi's most haunting melodies Withering Tree, it's surprising that this track didn't make the band's second album (more than likely this it failed to make it when Mason temporarily returned to the fold to make room for some of Mason's songs). Withering Tree features features a rare appearence by woodwind player Chris Wood on bass guitar.Something's Got A Hold of My Toe is a rare Winwood/Mason/Miller collaboration. It's little more than a undeveloped jam build around an undistinguished riff. The bulk of the rest of the album is highlighted by the post-Mason single Medicated Goo/Shanghai Noodle Factory. The former track wouldn't have soundedout of place on a Spencer Davis single or album except for its drug inspired lyrics. The latter song's nonsensical lyric and Wood's wouldn't have sounded out of place on Heave Is In Your Mind(the band's last original single prior to reforming to make John Barleycorn Must Die).
The album concludes with a rare live glimpse of the trio performing two remakes (Mason had departed for the second time prior to Traffic's tour). Feeling Good (from the musical The Smell of the Grease Paint, The Roar of the Crowd)provides an opportunity for a long jam by the band. It's certainly an unusual choice for Traffic to cover but fits in well considering the venue (the Fillmore West).
Last Exit shared many of the same virtues and flaws of Cream's last album Goodbye (also divided up amoungst studio and live tracks). The studio tracks are of varying quality with two at least two minor classics by the band. The live tracks suffer from the recording limitations of the time. They also demonstrate the gaping hole left by Mason when he left the band.
Although not the band's finest moment, Last Exit has enough highlights to merit purchasing for fans of the band.