On The Road is a live album (2 LPs, reissued on 1 CD) by English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 rock band Traffic

Traffic (band)

Traffic were 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...

, released in 1973. Recorded live in Germany, it features the Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, released in 1973, was the seventh album and sixth studio album by English rock band Traffic. It followed their 1971 hit The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and contained only five songs...

lineup plus extra keyboardist (for live performances) Barry Beckett

Barry Beckett

Barry Edward Beckett was a keyboardist who worked as a session musician with several notable artists on their studio albums...

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The initial U.S. release of On the Road was as a single LP consisting of: "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (edited to 15:10), "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory," "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired" & "Light Up or Leave Me Alone."

The album reached number 40 in the UK and number 29 in the USA.

Reception

In their retrospective review, Allmusic praised the playing of Roger Hawkins, David Hood, and Barry Beckett, but condemned the album for both stretching the songs out for too long and failing to improve on the lackluster studio versions of the three songs from Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory

Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, released in 1973, was the seventh album and sixth studio album by English rock band Traffic. It followed their 1971 hit The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and contained only five songs...

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Disc one

1. "Glad" / "Freedom Rider" (Winwood)/(Winwood, Capaldi) – 20:35
2. "Tragic Magic" (Chris Wood) – 8:39
3. "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired" (Winwood, Capaldi) – 10:31

Disc two

1. "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory" (Winwood, Capaldi) – 6:51
2. "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" (Capaldi) – 10:56
3. "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
   The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (song)
   "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" is a song by the band Traffic from their 1971 album of the same name. The song was written by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood....
   
   " (Winwood, Capaldi) – 17:47

Personnel

• Steve Winwood
  Steve Winwood
  Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an English international recording artist whose career spans nearly 50 years. He is a songwriter and a musician whose genres include soul music , R&B, rock, blues-rock, pop-rock, and jazz...
  
   – vocals, guitar, piano
• Chris Wood
  Chris Wood (rock musician)
  Christopher Gordon Blandford 'Chris' Wood was a founding member of the English rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason....
  
   – flute, saxophone
• Jim Capaldi
  Jim Capaldi
  Nicola James "Jim" Capaldi was an English musician and songwriter. His musical career lasted more than four decades. He co-founded Traffic in Birmingham with Steve Winwood, and the band's psychedelic rock was influential in Britain and the United States...
  
   – percussion, vocals on "Light Up or Leave Me Alone", drums on "Uninspired"
• Rebop Kwaku Baah
  Rebop Kwaku Baah
  Anthony "Reebop" Kwaku Baah was a Ghanaian percussionist perhaps best known for working with the 1970s rock groups Traffic and Can.-Biography:...
  
   – percussion
• Barry Beckett
  Barry Beckett
  Barry Edward Beckett was a keyboardist who worked as a session musician with several notable artists on their studio albums...
  
   – organ
• David Hood
  David Hood
  David Hood , is a bassist from Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He also plays the trombone and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame....
  
   – bass
• Roger Hawkins
  Roger Hawkins
  Roger G Hawkins , is an American drummer best known for playing as part of the studio backing band known as The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Alabama...
  
   – drums

Production notes:

• Chris Blackwell
  Chris Blackwell
  Christopher Percy Gordon "Chris" Blackwell is a British record producer and businessman, who was the founder of Island Records, acknowledged as the most successful and groundbreaking independent record company in history. Blackwell has been a music industry mogul for over fifty years...
  
   – producer
• Brian Humphries – engineer
• Jimmy Johnson – mixing
• Jeff Willens – mastering
• Ann Borthwick – cover art
• Brian Cooke – photography

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
1973	UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	40
	Billboard Pop Albums	29