The Collection

by Traffic

The Collection cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 2001-01-01
  • Label: Island Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.65/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, Malcolm Dome, Jimmy Miller, Rick Grech, Jim Gordon, The Whole Hog, Steve Winwood

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This Island collection draws on Traffic's albums from the late 1960s and 1970s, when Steve Winwood's band moved between psychedelic pop, folk-rock and jazz-inflected improvisation. Songs such as 'Dear Mr. Fantasy' and 'Feelin' Alright' anchor a survey of one of British rock's most fluid groups.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, guitars, jamming, retro, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
  2. Hole In My Shoe
  3. Dear Mr Fantasy
  4. You Can All Join In
  5. John Barleycorn (Must Die)
  6. Freedom Rider
  7. No Face, No Name, No Number
  8. Paper Sun
  9. Coloured Rain
  10. Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
  11. Am I What I Was Or Am I What I Am
  12. Medicated Goo
  13. Berkshire Poppies
  14. Rock And Roll Stew
  15. (Roamin' Through The Gloamin With) 40,000 Headmen
  16. Pearly Queen
  17. Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush

Credits

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