Traffic Gold
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Traffic Gold is a two-disc 2005 compilation album
by the psychedelic rock
band Traffic
. It contains at least one song from each album except On the Road
, Far From Home
, and The Last Great Traffic Jam.
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
by the psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in United States and the United Kingdom...
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...
. It contains at least one song from each album except On the Road
On the Road (Traffic album)
On The Road is a live album by English rock band Traffic, released in 1973. Recorded live in Germany, it features the Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory lineup plus extra keyboardist Barry Beckett....
, Far From Home
Far from Home
Far From Home, released in 1994, was the final studio album released under the name Traffic, and the first in two decades since the release of When the Eagle Flies in 1974....
, and The Last Great Traffic Jam.
Disc one
- "Paper SunPaper Sun"Paper Sun" was the British band Traffic's debut single, released in May 1967. It was a number 5 hit in the United Kingdom. It is famous for its time-typical sitar riff, played by Dave Mason, and its soulful vocals by composer Steve Winwood....
" (CapaldiJim CapaldiNicola 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...
/WinwoodSteve WinwoodStephen 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...
) - 4.12 - "Dealer" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 3.10
- "Coloured Rain" (Capaldi/Winwood/WoodChris 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....
) - 2.39 - "Hole in My Shoe" (MasonDave MasonDavid Thomas "Dave" Mason is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic...
) - 3.00 - "No Face, No Name, No Number" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 3.31
- "Heaven Is in Your Mind" (Capaldi/Winwood/Wood) - 4.15
- "Smiling Phases" (Capaldi/Winwood/Wood) - 2.39
- "Dear Mr. FantasyDear Mr. Fantasy"Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. An extended live version of the song also appears on the 1971 Traffic album Welcome to the Canteen...
" (Capaldi/Winwood/Wood) - 5.34 - "You Can All Join In" (Mason) - 3.35
- "Pearly Queen" (Capaldi/Winwood)- 4.18
- "Feelin' AlrightFeelin' Alright"Feelin' Alright" also known as "Feeling Alright" is a song written by Dave Mason of the English rock band Traffic from their eponymous 1968 album, Traffic...
" (Mason) - 4.16 - "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring" (Capaldi/Winwood/Wood) - 3.12
- "Forty Thousand Headmen" (Capaldi/Winwood)- 3.14
- "Shanghai Noodle Factory" (Capaldi/Fallon/Winwood/Wood)- 5.04
- "Medicated Goo" (Miller/Winwood) - 3.34
- "GladGlad (song)"Glad" is a song composed by Steve Winwood and performed by Traffic. It is the opening track on the band's fourth album, John Barleycorn Must Die, which was released in 1970. It is an instrumental running 6 minutes, 59 seconds and is heavily influenced by jazz, especially in its instrumentation and...
" (Winwood) - 6.57 - "Freedom Rider" (Capaldi/Winwood)- 5.24
- "Empty Pages" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 4.33
- "John BarleycornJohn Barleycorn"John Barleycorn" is an English folksong. The character of John Barleycorn in the song is a personification of the important cereal crop barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it, beer and whisky...
" (Traditional, arr.ArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
Winwood) - 6.21
Disc two
- "Gimme Some Lovin'Gimme Some Lovin'"Gimme Some Loving" is a song written by Steve Winwood, Spencer Davis and Muff Winwood, and originally performed by The Spencer Davis Group. The basic riff of the song was borrowed from the Homer Banks song " A Lot of Love", written by Banks and Willie Dean "Deanie" Parker. The song was a UK #2 in...
" [Live] (Winwood/WinwoodMuff WinwoodMervyn "Muff" Winwood is an English songwriter and record producer, and the older brother of Steve Winwood. Both were formerly members of the Spencer Davis Group in the 1960s, in which Muff Winwood played bass guitar...
/DavisSpencer DavisSpencer David Nelson Davis is a British musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group.-Early life:...
) - 9.00 - "The Low Spark of High-Heeled BoysThe 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....
" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 11.40 - "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" (Capaldi) - 4.46
- "Rock and Roll Stew" (GordonJim Gordon (musician)James Beck "Jim" Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording albums with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup Derek...
/Grech) - 6.08 - "Rainmaker" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 7.49
- "Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 6.01
- "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 7.32
- "Something New" (Capaldi/Winwood)- 3.15
- "Dream Gerrard" (Stanshall/Winwood) - 11.02
- "Walking In The Wind" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 6.51
- "When The Eagle Flies" (Capaldi/Winwood) - 4.21
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