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Steve Winwood was a musical phenom from his teen years. In this song he plated the guitar lead parts as well as vocals. I would highly recommend another song by Traffic "Low spark of high heeled boys", which is mix of jazz and rock and for me there best song.
Definitely a must…….absolute banger!
agree, totally.
That's Dave Mason on Lead Guitar...he left right after the album was released..but came back later for the live album Welcome to the Canteen.
While I love that song (“Low Spark”), and that period, and this song and early period, my favorite album, and period is actually before that, the “middle period” of Traffic, John Barleycorn Must Die.
That album, also more jazzy-rocky but also some folkier elements is my absolute favorite Traffic. I could put that album on repeat play and just loop it all day.
But there’s very little bad traffic.
@@bobcorbin3294 Yep, Dave on guitar, and he also survived through the next album, the self titled "Traffic" album which includes some great Mason tunes, especially "Don't Be Sad"! It's one of those great "wonders" I have about what they might have accomplished together. Oh well, we'll never know!
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is brilliant. Steve Winwood is such an amazing talent. Also, Gimme Some Lovin from his time with the Spencer Davis Group.
I'm a Man is great too!
Gotta do one of the greatest (Traffic or otherwise) songs ever "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"!
Just the sax intro by Chris Wood is worth listening to this!
I immediately learned it on the home piano as a youth. Such a groove!
True! I love Roll right stones!!!! Rollll right stonnnnnnnnes!!!!
@@vitusdoom Another classic! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollright_Stones
Second that, do Low Spark
Obvious choice but: Low Spark of High Heeled boys has always been my favorite Traffic song. I do agree that you should hit Spencer Davis to get the whole Steve W. History. He also played on an early and very good Joe Cocker LP.
You now need to listen to Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Dudes, the chronology of Steve Winwood is as follows: Spencer Davis Group >> Traffic >> Blind Faith >> regrouped with Traffic >> solo career + many collaborations throughout the decades!😎
Someone has probably mentioned it…but Dave Mason is the guitarist for Traffic and Jim Capaldi is on drums.
Next up by this superb band…..Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.
Steve Winwood started to play professionally at 16
Steve is a multi-instrumentalist. He plays piano, organ, guitar, etc. He’s a prolific songwriter and was with Spencer Davis group, Blind Faith, Traffic as well as having a solo career. Check out Gimme Some Lovin’, Valerie, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Roll With It to get a goid idea of his career. We were also disappointed that he wasn’t able to play with Steely Dan on this concert tour. We seen both multiple times.
Steve was a child prodigy. He could play just about every instrument.
Jimi Hendrix was a huge Steve Winwood fan & wanted to be in a band with him. Jimi sought him out to play on Voodoo Child. They went in the studio and crafted it, with Steve on organ. All the legends love Steve.
Any of their 70s albums are worthy of investigation ..........John Barleycorn Must Die, Low Spark Of High-heeled Boys, Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory and the underrated When The Eagle Flies.
Freedom Rider will rock your socks
Steve Winwood has contributed a ton to music, more than people realize. He had many very successful hits throughout different decades.
Freedom Rider by Traffic is also an amazing song. That sax line is epic.
Capaldi was a master of the tool.
@@MisterWondrous Wood played the sax, Capaldi the drums. It's all good, man!
@@crimsonking70 Wow thanks. Now I will have to re-visualize the band...or watch a live video maybe. I always pictured him playing sax, for some reason. He seemed more like someone who would be in the front.
@@MisterWondrous in the 70s Traffic touring band he was up front and singing/percussion. Roger Hawkins played drums. He drummed on the albums
@@crimsonking70 Ah. okay thanks! I thought I had seen him up front there, with his blue eyes and chiseled jaw and clean tight beard. He needed to be out front.
Most would agree that Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is their best song
Not me.....IMO it's overhyped. Give me Dream Gerard any day.
Jim Cappaldi on drums and Dave Mason on guitar. Super group
We saw them in 1978 at Winterland in San Francisco. It was such a great show!
Traffic is one of those bands with unquestionable talent and never got enough recognition before Steve Winwood became popular as a solo artist. Please consider playing "John Barleycorn Must Die" - recorded in 1970, but adapted from a 1700's Scottish poem by Robert Burns - the lyrics are amazing, and the melody will take you back to the middle ages. A true Traffic classic.
Winwood is a multi-instrumentalist. Freaking awesome on the elec guitar. "please don't be sad ... if it was a straight mind you had, we wouldn't have known you all these years"
When my wife and I saw Steely Dan a couple of years ago Steve Winwood opened the show. Steve plays guitar on this cut. He got standing ovation after nearly song. Try listening to Low Spark of High Heel Boys or Back Pages. Traffic was an incredible band.
I agree Bob Helton, especially regarding The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
What a amazing concert that must have been! Very happy for you.
You mean "Empty Pages". Excellent tune, as well!
The song is written by Jim Capaldi, lyrics and Wood and Winwood the musical part, in 1967. The band then consisted of : Jim Capaldi - drums, percussion, vocals; Dave Mason - guitar, Mellotron, sitar, tambura, harmonica, percussion, bass guitar on "Dear Mr. Fantasy" vocals; Steve Winwood - Hammond organ, guitar, bass guitar, piano, harpsichord, percussion, vocals, arrangements; Chris Wood - flute, saxophone, Hammond organ, percussion, vocals.
Only two components, Dave Manson and Steve Winwood are still alive.. Saludos
Manfred Mann's Earth Band As Above So Below ua-cam.com/video/d5wbYnqWc90/v-deo.html
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales & Bombers - As Above So Below (1975)
"The title of this album was inspired by a recording made in Surrey, England during the Second World War, by an ornithologist intending to record Nightingales. The bombers flew over at the same time and were recorded by accident. The recording has been incorporated in 'As Above, So Below'". - Manfred Mann 1975[3] (In fact, the recording was made on May 1942 by a BBC sound engineer for the BBC. Intending to capture the nightingale's song he also, by accident, recorded the sound of RAF bombers on their way to attack Mannheim, Germany.)
First Time I Heard this Song was
In 1969 When My Friend's
Older Brother was Stoned and
His Cousin was Getting Packed to
Go to Woodstock.
Even at 13
I Knew that Winwood was
a Special and Gifted Musician.
Thanks So Much for
Bringing Back Some
Fond Memories.
BTW - I Proud to Say that
I Never Smoked Anything in
My Entire Life.
Never Ate Anything
Psychedelic Either.
But to this Day Nobody Can
Accuse Me of Being a
Dull Boy !!!
🤠✌ Far Out Man !!!
I have all 7 studio albums from Traffic's 1967-1974 period. That is, Mr. Fantasy, Traffic (self-titled), Last Exit, John Barleycorn Must Die, The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys, Shootout At The Fantasy Factory and When The Eagle Flies. I didn't bother with Far From Home, their 1994 reunion album. Chris Wood died in July 1983 from liver failure and I didn't care for Steve using his keyboards to try and duplicate his sounds. Also, I find that this album sounds more like a Steve Winwood solo album than a Traffic one. But there is one track on there I really like. It's called "Holy Ground". This one has Davy Spillane playing Uillean pipes. It's beautiful.
However, my favorite Traffic song is the title track from their 1974 album When The Eagle Flies. The reason I like this one so much is because of the frequent, unpredictable yet melodic key changes. If you get a chance, please check that one out.
Just have to say Stevie Winwood as a 15 year old in the Spencer Davis Group #nicknlexrequest "Gimme Some Lovin' ". You'll love it!
Perfect!
That is good though the Band CHICAGO’s cover blows Steve’s song out of the water!
@@joelliebler5690 They probably weren't fifteen though. :)
@@MisterWondrous Early twenties though Mozart was younger when produced some of his best work.
@@joelliebler5690 I was listening to Genesis' first album the other day, which was pressed when they were in their early 20s. Mind-boggling how precocious some people can be. But for those guys, their education was a large part of it. Such an impressive list of folks went through Charterhouse. While Chicago was a competent band, I don't know that they ever produced a "Close to the Edge", a "Firth of Fifth" or "Supper's Ready", and certainly not an "In the Court of the Crimson King". I was playing trumpet at the time, was growing tired of horns, so there is that.
Dire Straits by throwing down on "trumpet playing bands" might have put a dent in such endeavors, as they seemed to fade. Mozart must have been messing in the medicine cabinet, I figure.
This is one of the great unsung bands from the sixties. That great sound was due to producer Jimmy Miller. Mick Jagger was so impressed with his work that he snatched him up to produce the Stones, and he really improved the quality of their records.
Winwood.....Organ,Guitar.Vocals....any thing else he gets his hands on.....Winwood at 17!!!! Wrote "I'm a Man","Gimme Some Lovin'"...when he was in "The Spencer Davis Band".....watch Winwood and Clapton do this Live!!!!!!!!
Stevie's just so talented, and as this song shows an extremely underrated guitarist. He was a star at the age of 15 in the UK with the Spencer Davis Group. Traffic had many styles but two I'd recommend are The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys from the album of the same name, and John Barleycorn Must Die which has that pastoral, folky vibe to it. It's an old traditional English folk song about cutting barley to make beer. I was lucky enough to see Stevie supporting the Dan in 2019, because he did a relatively short set, every song was a classic. Then to cap a perfect night he came on to sing and play keyboards with them on Pretzel Logic . That's a great double bill with Snarky Puppy. It was you two that introduced me to them when you reacted to Shofukan. Seeing them in October, can't wait.
'Traffic on the Road' is a great live album
I saw Traffic back in the late 60s and 70s. Their albums, 1967 Mr. Fantasy, 1968 Traffic, 1970 John Barleycorn Must Die, 1971 The Low Spark of The High Heeled Boys, 1973 Shootout At The Fantasy Factory, 1974 When The Eagle Flies are excellent albums. The last mentioned is more jazz-influenced. Well actually, jazz elements permeate these albums.
If you get the chance, listen to all these albums. You will not be disappointed.
Traffic's song "Empty Pages" is one step up, and goes nicely with "Mr Fantasy".
"Low Spark" will knock your socks off.
Steve on lead vocals, lead guitars, abd all keyboards. He has released albums as a one man band. He was 18 or 19 here.
Saw Traffic back in September 1971 at the Albert Hall in London - with the terrific band Seatrain in support. Saw Stevie Winwood and his band supporting Steely Dan here in Perth several years ago; I was looking for a bass player until I realized that Stevie was not only singing and playing keyboard/organ, but using pedals to play bass. Amazing. And you should here him play lead guitar!
EMPTY PAGES -YOU WOULD LOVE IT
As a teenager, Steve was the real talent in The Spencer Davis Group (I'M A MAN, GIMME SOME LOVIN', etc.). Then with Traffic; THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS. MEDICATED GOO, FEELIN' ALRIGHT, etc. and after that, Blind Faith. Solo, you should hear him in the '80s with ROLL WITH IT, HIGHER LOVE, BACK IN THE HIGH LIFE AGAIN, etc.
Low spark will blow your mind,especially sax solo,a must listen song!
4 great musicians: Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Chris Wood ,Jim Capaldi - it""s a family affair
I have felt for years that the fade out on "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a shout out to The Kinks "You Really Got Me." I don't know why they would do such, but it is definitely what I hear.
While Traffic is normally heavy keyboard and sax but , this cut is guitar driven. Windwood can play both keyboards or guitar while singing lead vocal.
So glad you are going down the Steve Winwood road once again. Great singer, such a talented musician! Moved around so much, solo work next please. “ Arc of a Diver” or “ Higher Love”. All the things Winwood are fantastic! Love your channel; Been here since the beginning .
Excellent! My favorite Windwood: Traffic (track: “Dear Mr. Fantasy”), Traffic LPs: John Barleycorn Must Die,” and Low Spark of High-Heel Boys” - jazzy vibe but a little repetitive but we didn’t care (tranced out). Also liked his later solo LP: “Arc of a Diver.” And loved Blind Faith’s “Can’t Find My Way Home” and even his later solo pop hits were ok. When Winwood was a teenager, he belted out soulful vocals in the Spencer Davis Group. Very varied sounds from Mr. Winwood. Great reaction. And Thanks Colin. ✨😉
i went to high school from 1972-1975 and this was a party favorite,,,traffic is one of the best bands ever...so much talent in one group.keep em' comin' my rocky mtn friends...love,Kent.
Another band of the era who benefitted from having sessions with The Swampers from Muscle Shoals.
Marvel used this song for the opening credits of Avengers Endgame. It's an absolute legendary song, as is Steve Winwood legendary, himself.
The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys is a must, and is quite out there.
Omg guys Steve Winwood is amazing! A musical prodigy! If you were to him live flawless! He was 14 when he formed the Spencer Davies group. Definitely an artist to pursue from beginning to now.
Not only Steve Winwood is a great musician in Traffic. Don't forget Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason and Chris Wood. Wood plays later on the Electric Ladyland Album by Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Steve Winwood played on Voodoo Chile on Electric Ladyland and revisited it decades later in live shows with Clapton.
Dave Mason also played on Electric Ladyland
@@davidheiser2225 Dave played acoustic guitar on All Along the watchtower
More Dave Mason from Let it Flow album…
Please listen to either "Gimme Some Loving" or "I'm a Man" by the Spencer Davis Group. The band was formed in 1963 and Steve Winwood was 14 at that time and was the organist and singer.
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys by Traffic is a must.
This song has always sounded like the definitive 60s song to me. They used it in a television movie, Go Ask Alice, from 1974. It was about a teenage girl in the 60s who drifted into the drug/hippie scene. I think this song was the background for one of her trips. The 60s invented rock music (not rock and roll), the 70s just elaborated on it more.
Have always loved his "Spanish Dancer" and "Night Train" from his later solo album "Arc of a Diver". Great album. I believe he plays all the instruments on it.
Lots of great Traffic tunes: Colored Rain, Medicated Goo, You Can All Join In, Glad, Empty Pages, Gimme Some Lovin' (live) to name a few.
Little Stevie Winwood was with The Spencer Davis Group when they had several #1 hits on the UK chart, including KEEP ON RUNNING. Check that out, as well as NOBODY LOVES YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT - then you'll understand why everyone was blown away by a 15 year old English boy who sounded like Ray Charles.
My dad played harmonica. He fought in WW II and Korea and was in the Navy. He'd play harmonica on deck to pass the time in between assignments. Basically taught himself how to play then.
Harmonica's are interesting in that you need different one's to play in different keys. My dad had 6 different ones plus a larger Super Chromatic harmonica that had a slider control on the side that allowed access to sharps and flats (all twelve notes, rather than just 7 notes)
Nick and Lex, eventually you have to watch Traffic Live at Santa Monica 1972, an hour long concert. It's on UA-cam, without commercials and showcases the musical talents of Steve Winwood. From his great vocals to his excellent work on acoustic and electric guitars and exceptional piano and organ playing, it's all there during these 8 classic Traffic songs.
Lex: Steve Winwood was "stuck in Traffic"?
I saw The Electric Prunes in concert last night. They really moved me.
The Electric Flag was there too. I salute them.
The Jefferson Airplane played too. They were all so high.
The Rolling Stones gathered no moss.
The Who was on first.
'Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy' is one of my favourite lines! Thanks guys for doing this brilliant song. Now please, please, please react to 'The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys' #nicknlexrequest. Everyone is mentioning it below, as have I quite a few times! Welcome back to the 60's guys, far out and solid!! Thank you for a great reaction as always.
Stevie Winwood played almost all of the instruments, on this album.
Yeah! I love Traffic. The Low Spark Album is so good. My favorite track is Many a Mile to Freedom.
First time I saw Traffic I was just 18 and I saw them in Naples, Italy when I was in the Navy. 1974.
The 60s and 70s were the best! Thanks!
And my favorite Traffic album is definitely worth a reaction, John Barleycorn Must Die. Start with the opening medley: “Glad/Freedom Rider”. But everything on that album is gold for me. “Empty Pages” might be my favorite song from that album and maybe my favorite song by Traffic.
Heck yes! "John Barleycorn" is such a terrific album! I think I'm on my third copy, not sure. I've always loved Traffic and will forever! I really like the "Traffic" album too, when Mason was still around. Great stuff throughout!
@@tommathews3964 agreed. For me, it’s picking the best among best. I even like Welcome To The Canteen
@@RabbiSteve Yes sir, I love the raw feel of "Canteen" that you only get from live stuff! "Last Exit" has some of it too.
I agree with all of them. And "Stranger to himself" and "Mother natures son" are great!
This should be good! 🤪. Giggles to start!
Thank goodness you're following the Winwood thread! Such a brilliant musician! I really hate having to suggest "singles" as I'm an album oriented person, but some great choices would be: Dave Mason's "Don't Be Sad", "Forty Thousand Headmen" "Glad/Freedom Rider" "John Barleycorn Must Die" "Empty Pages" "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" Capaldi's "Light Up or Leave Me Alone". That's enough for now, but by no means all you should hear! Traffic was a terrific band and a very important one!
Winwood is an incredible musician! I am not sure if he played guitar on the original studio track, but he is more than capable of doing so. There is a link to the live performance at the Crossroads festival where Steve handles the guitar and vocals. A must watch for Winwood fans.
I think you both would love Traffic's Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.
Thank you for the harmonica love!
My dad gave me my first one when I was 8 and I'm 67 now, and this is right up my alley. I play in a blues band. (nothing you've heard of. lol)
Want to hear the first rock song harmonica lead I ever learned?
Deep Purple - Lazy
The song is just awesome on so many levels.
Frank Zappa - Dupree's Paradise (1973) live ua-cam.com/video/qr6mTloYJJs/v-deo.html
Orchestration: 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd = English horn), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, percussion (bass drums, bells, castanets, chimes, cymbals, Chinese cymbals, gong, maracas, marimba, piccolo snare drum, pop gun, slapstick, snare drum, tam-tam, vibraphone, woodblock, xylophone), harp, 2 pianos (= celestas), and strings
“Dupree’s Paradise is about a bar on Avalon Boulevard in Watts at 6:00 a.m. on a Sunday in 1964, during the early morning jam session. For about seven minutes, the customers (winos, musicians, degenerates and policemen) do the things that set them apart from the rest of society.”
Zappa’s Varèse-inspired point of reference is apparent in his sheer exuberance with the ringing, clanging, abutting piles of sound he marshals. Zappa takes the opening optimistic tune down the rabbit hole, from which it emerges at times sounding like Gershwin, at others like a serialist’s lost weekend. As for his rhythms, Zappa notes they are in general derived from speech patterns and “should have the same sort of flow a conversation would have.”
Anything off of the, "Overnight Sensation" or his, "Apostrophe" album 🔥🎸
Traffic's epic cut is "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"
Lots of good songs from Traffic. Low Spark, Smiling Faces, and Pearly Queen to name a few.
I'm positive that your folks know 'Traffic'. Ask 'em.👌
There is a blinding live version of this from the 2007 Crossroads Festival, stevie's guitar solo is excellent and the two (yes two) drummers Steve Gadd and Steve Jordan absolutely killed it ua-cam.com/video/fmoL-qXAr5o/v-deo.html , widely regarded as The Best Version Of Mr Fantasy. And the band looked very happy with it as well.
Yes, that performance is amazing, Stevie has the crowd going nuts at the end.
Thanks! That was a wonderful performance!
Steve Jordan currently playing for The Rolling Stones.
You are correct Sir! Yesss!
Yeah, have seen it before but went back for another taste. Excellent. One point - No Steve Gadd! Listed for the performance are Ian Thomas (drums), and Steve Jordan (drums).
yes yes! more traffic, more cream, more blind faith, more steve winwood!
The conventions with which we have become familiar were first created by these folks, and their contemporaries. We know how the drums will go, now, but at the time, people did not know where the drums would go. Same for the fife and the sackbut...or whatever it was they were playing.
Were I to taxonomize Traffic songs, best to worst, or essential to non-essential, I would certainly include "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (maybe because I rock a mean pair of Louboutins, but not really), and also "Shootout at the Fantasy Factory". "Rainmaker" I would also include. I sing it a lot because I am a rainmaker. "Graveyard People" and "Dream Gerrard"...all of much higher production values and everything really. "John Barleycorn Must Die" is a great earlier classic. More Blind Faith and Cream is always welcome. Same goes for the bands.
Songs can raise consciousness; foster conscience. Peace, and love y'all.
Organized chaos is how I describe my garden lol
The Doors first albums were in 1967 - Riders on the Storm was on the LA Woman album released in 1971 and was the last Doors album with Jim Morrison who died 3 months after the release.
I was there, that day...as they literally morphed into ONE; NICKLEX. Black tee'd, headphone bobbin', air guitar face.
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Hahahaha!!
Live version of "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" with Chris Wood sax intro is the one you wanna react to...it's a wonderful video. RIP, Chris.
As others have said, Before going forward go back further with Steve Winwood, to Spencer Davis Group, "Gimme Some Lovin'". Then do Traffic's, "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys". Then move to his solo career, for "While You See a Chance" from Arc of a Diver, and many others from the 80s.
you two are too cute
I saw Steve W open for Tom Petty - and Steve as warmup blew it away! When Jimi Hendrix went to UK for the first time, he wanted to meet two people - Jeff Beck (another one to listen to!) and Steve Winwood!
He’s crazy good! 🤗
Organized Chaos. Yesssss!!!!!!!
You gotta do "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys", my absolute chill song, it is slightly long, but worth every second of flexing on the piano and organ, chef's kiss. I listen as I lounge, know every chord as I do air piano, and sing along. A great jazz tune that gives the drums and the whole band such a great jazz crescendo, absolutely stellar song from my rock past.💙🌺
Arch of a Diver, Spanish Dancer!
Saw Traffic in the early 90's. They re-formed after years and it was one of the best, most chill concerts I have EVER been to.
Shoot out at the Fantasy Factory is one of Traffic's harder edged songs. Rox
This song was ground breaking and had a prog feel before their was prog.
"Spanish Dancer" from Winwood's album Arc of a Diver. Steve did all the instruments on that album.
Steve Winwood can play guitar, keys, drums, bass, harmonica, sing and wrote along with drummer extraordinaire Jim Capaldi, sometime member guitarist Dave Mason and Chris Wood on sax and flute. That's Stevie playing the incendiary solo...Oh Yeah ! These guys blended rock, blues , psych, folk and jazz. He also jammed with Jimi on Electric Ladyland. John Barleycorn Must Die was key in exploring Old English folk that bands like Led Zep, Fairport Convention, Strawbs and Steeleye Span continued. Nick this should also remind you of Earthless !
Big nod to producer Jimmy Miller, who would also work very well with The Rolling Stones through their late 60's, early 70's classic years.
Song, White Bird
Band, Its a Beautiful Day, record version.
You won't be disappointed.
Steve Winwood from Spencer Davies band - Traffic - supergroup with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker Rick Grech - and then eighties showing that wonder guy soulful voice. A consummate artist.
For a Traffic change of pace, "John Barleycorn Must Die" or "Paper Sun."
My suggestion for next in line would be a Traffic deep cut of "Walking In The Wind" or a repeat of the version of "I Can't Find My Way Home" by Steve on acoustic in front of a crackling fireplace.
I missed this one what a classic. Let the good times roll or as Stevia Winwood titled a 90’s solo album. ROLL WITH IT!👍
Paper Sun from this record is pretty mind expanding.
I think you would like the song "Vagabond Virgin" from their next album titled Traffic in 1968. Song written by Dave Mason with Winwood on background vocals. The tune has a completely different feel and instrumentation. This might not be your next Steely Dan band but I think you'll love digging into the Traffic catalog.