Track Listing 1. You Can All Join In 2. Pearly Queen 3. Don't Be Sad 4. Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring 5. Feelin' Alright 6. Vagabond Virgin 7. Forty Thousand Headmen 8. Cryin' to Be Heard 9. No Time to Live 10. Means to an End 11. You Can All Join In - (mono single mix, bonus track) 12. Feelin' Alright - (mono single mix, bonus track) 13. Withering Tree - (stereo single mix, bonus track)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 40 min. | | Producer: | Jimmy Miller | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes Traffic: Dave Mason (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Steve Winwood (vocals, guitar, piano, harpsichord, organ, bass); Jim Capldi (vocals, drums, percussion); Chris Wood (flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass, percussion, bells). Engineers: Glyn Johns, Eddie Kramer, Brian Humphries. Originally released on Island (9081). On their second album, the cottage dwellers from Berkshire refined their hippie pop into a looser and vastly more mature work: evocative tales of nonsense in the beautiful "40,000 Headmen," joyful malarkey with Mason's "You Can All Join In," and one of his finest songs, "Feelin Alright," which was a signpost to his imminent departure. Throughout the record Jim Capaldi's understated yet steady drums demonstrate just what a great rock drummer should do, and Chris Wood's sound is everywhere, with trills on flute and blasts on saxophone. TRAFFIC is a record that will always be meant for glorious sunny days.
Editorial Reviews ...Dave Mason is a top-notch rock and roll composer and the Steve Winwood/Jim Capaldi team is equally good...coming up with material on a level with the Young Rascals' best work... Rolling Stone (01/04/1969)
4 stars out of 5 - ...lolloping funkiness - smeared all over 'Feelin' Alright' and 'Pearly Queen' - could only have come from such chilled-out environs [a rented cottage in Aston Tirrold, Bershire]... Q (02/01/2000)
...a sweet parade of soulful prog that no one else could muster....shows that Traffic were capable of thoughtful, inventive and occasionally very beautiful music. Mojo (01/01/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - TRAFFIC is a triumph of earthy cohesion, a sparkling British twist on the rural-basement R&B of the Band's MUSIC FROM THE BIG PINK....[T]his is the best album [any Traffic] lineup ever made... Rolling Stone (03/04/2004)
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