Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
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Free Music Review: Winwood at his best
Hit: 5 Stars
I stumbled across this album late (1975) and recall being fairly floored at the time that I was not familiar with it (albeit that I had had John Barleycorn for years prior).
Simply put, Steve Winwood was a genius on the emotive and exploratory edge of electric guitar, something that seems entirely lost to multiple generations of guitarists and listeners. Listen, if you will, to the trailing guitar licks on Light Up or Leave Me Alone and tell me if you don't feel the presence of something 'bigger' than the rest of all the BS garbage guitar work out there these days. And yet listeners who don't, in fact, listen will have no idea what I'm talking about...
Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (the song) sits at a level above Stairway, Gimme Shelter, and even Layla as without question one of best rock n' roll songs every written and executed.
Get educated, buy this CD....But if you're lazy or oversaturated with todays overproduced crap you'll never 'get it'. Good luck.
Free Music Review: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Hit: 4 Stars
Traffic-The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys ****
Traffics The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys is a jazz/rock classic. It is both progressive and yet very basic simultaneously. Combining elements of prog with jazz and basic rock n' roll elements. Featuring such Traffic classics as the twelve minute title track `The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys' the blunt (not pun intended) `Light Up Or Leave Me Alone' which features a killer wah-wah guitar solo, something that Traffic became known for, and perhaps the greatest song Traffic ever recorded with the exception of `Mr. Fantasy' is the brilliant `Rock & Roll Stew.' All three went on to become rock classics and seem to still get regular air play despite their time length.
The musicianship on the album is amazing as well. The guitar playing and percussion especially. Steve Winwood of course being the master mind behind the whole thing. The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys is Traffics strongest album and one that at the very least deserves at least one spin in everyone's stereo.
Free Music Review: more of the same traffic
Hit: 3 Stars
This album's supposed to be Traffic at its most commercial, but it may also be Traffic at its most boring. It's a lot of what Winwood was already trying to do in his singles on the earlier albums: British versions of soul, proto-jam band jamming, but there are no extraordinary moments. It is consistent, and it is easy to listen to, but not for an indication of the most progressive things happening in early 70's rock and pop.Free Music Review: Low Spark
Hit: 5 Stars
Almost 40 years after it was recorded, this album still has what it takes. Listen to it a few times and you will hear yourself humming it on the way to work or play.Free Music Review: the best of nostalgia music
Hit: 5 Stars
WOW, unbelievable clarity of Stevie's vocals if you have only heard this on vinyl or the radio. If you think you know any of your favorite tunes from the late sixties and you have not heard them on cd,I had to pull the car over it was so over whelming.