Traffic-Traffic (1968)


 

Artist: Traffic

Title: Traffic 

Label: Island

Format: CD

Cat #: 7-90059 2

Year of Release: 1968

Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1988

Listed Condition: VG+/VG+

Sell Date: 9/29/21

Sell Price: $2.99

Discogs Last Sold: 6/21/21 $2.50

Low: $0.99

Median: $2.29

Average: $2.48

High: $4.44

Current low price: $2.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 12

Have/Want: 135/46

Where Sold: Belmont, CA

Time it took to sell: 8 years

Where and When Bought: Boston, Planet Records used $8.99 late 80s/early 90s

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Classic Traffic album with one big AOR hit: "Feelin' Alright" and 9 other solid tracks.  Maybe "Cryin' To Be Heard" is a deep classic rock track now that I listen yet again.   I got this used on CD in the late 80's and it had since been remastered rendering this copy for the low-end bargain hunters.  I've had others on vinyl, but not this.  One copy was enough and I didn't have to repurchase it when the remaster arrived with bonus tracks in 2001.

The Dave Mason opener, "You Can All Join In" and especially "Vagabond Virgin" are probably my favorite cuts on the record.   Very English and jaunty.  I can smile and move my head slightly side to side and not feel inappropriate.  The rest is clearly quality although I never quite committed it to start to finish memory, listening to it sporadically over the past few decades.  I'm relistening after getting another in a couple weeks ago, which is why I've been dragging out writing about this one.  Another one of those classic albums by a classic band that on some level seems too classic to even write about, yet for me still requires some relistening after having it all this time.

This peaked at #17 on the Billboard album chart in early 1969, so they were on their way up from their peak chart years of 4 top 10 album in the first half of the 70's.  Still, Traffic have been so codified as supergroup hitmakers with Dave Mason and especially Steve Winwood having massive solo careers in their own right that ones mind is blown at just how long they were making records in mass consciousness.   Even Jim Capaldi had "That's Love" in the top 40 as late as 1983.  Mason was left out of the 1994 Winwood/Capaldi Traffic reunion tribute to Chris Wood who passed in 1983, but on this one it is he whose efforts seem to reign above all.

In retrospect, an album like this doesn't seem THAT commercial with over 50 years of time passed.


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