Traffic - On the Road
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Artist: TrafficEdition: Music CD
Format: Live, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-05-20
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Glad./Freedom Rider
- Tragic Magic
- (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired
- Shoot Out At Fantasy Factory
- Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
- Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
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Free Music Review: The album cover says everything if you know how and where to look
Hit: 4 Stars
Not a bad album at all - it would be foolish to say so with the presense of Muscle Shoals' own Roger Hawkins and David Hood (awesome, AWESOME rhythm section, those two guys; they're equalled ONLY by Al Jackson/Duck Dunn or Bill Wyman/Charlie Watts) and keyboardist Barry Beckett, whose presense freed Steve Winwood to "focus" on piano and guitar. Despite their presense, and despite the fact that the "musicanship" on this album is nothing short of exemplarly, still - one can pick up the same "vibe" here as the Stones' "Still Life." In short - TRYING TOO HARD. But Traffic was Traffic, and given the absolute dearth of anything special the seventies - the decade that inflicted "punk," the Eagles, and (God help us) "disco" on us - had to offer, complaining is but quibbling. HOWEVER -there IS one more "factor" that, in all honesty, can't be ignored: the presence of...drugs. If you've "been there," you can detect its presense in a couple of the performances. "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" seems to be trying too hard, and a couple of the other song titles all but give it away, dig, "Sometimes I Feel So Uninspired" and/or "Tragic Magic." But my one most memorable..."interpretataion" is that of my (then - in 1976) 17 y/o guitarist's comment on the album's "graphics," I guess. As our band liked to occasionally incorporate keyboards into our set, Jeff would have to switch off on bass to allow me to attempt the keys. Jeff and I were earnestly trying to get the rhythm to "Low Spark" correct, and, during a "smoke break," Jeff picked up "On The Road," gazed pensively at the album cover, and then appraised the inside picture of Winwood clutching the Strat: "Hey, man, d'you think somebody was doin' a little acid here?" Yes indeed - as, evidentally, were all the band. Still: Traffic on acid is SO very infinitely preferable to J Garcia and his Dreadful Grate. Deal with it.
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