On The Road [Remaster]

Performer: Traffic
Engineer: Brian Humphries
Producer: Steve Winwood; Chris Blackwell
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Traffic: Steve Winwood (vocals, guitar, piano); Jim Capaldi (vocals, drums, percussion); Chris Wood (flute, saxophone); Barry Beckett (keyboards); David Hood (bass instrument); Roger Hawkins (drums); Rebop Kwaku Baah (percussion). Liner Note Author: Bill DeYoung. The venality of the business gets a workout in the 12-minute title track, a slow-building jazz-rock groove that starts with a sense of quiet menace and ends with a pealing, distorted guitar solo, with one of Steve Winwood's most impassioned and lengthy organ solos at the song's heart. "Rock & Roll Stew" and Jim Capaldi's sneering putdown "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" are even more forceful, with only the groovy ecological message of "Many a Mile to Freedom" lightening the mood. Even that song rocks harder than anything on JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE, though, and that extra hint of power is likely what helped make THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS Traffic's most commercially successful album in the United States.

Rolling Stone (07/24/03, p.93) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...ON THE ROAD proved Traffic to be jammers who could hold their own with the likes of the Grateful Dead..."

Traffic appeared amidst the late-1960s psychedelic scene, and at its height the band was one of the most adventurous outfits around, although Traffic's unstable lineup made it an on-again, off-again affair by the '70s. Teenage wunderkind Stevie Winwood was the main man, but all the members made significant contributions. With a sound that combined influences from folk, rock, jazz, and soul, Traffic created something wonderfully of its time on classic albums such as THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH-HEELED BOYS.

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