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Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 13 January 1968
TRAFFIC is now on the move again but as a trio. So it was that I scaled the eight flights to drummer Jim Capaldi's Earl's ...
Traffic Lightens Up for American Tour
Report and Interview by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1974
NEW YORK – Looking only slightly recovered from a two-day-old case of jet lag, Traffic drummer Jim Capaldi strutted into the Providence Civic Center dressing ...
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Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966
CILLA BLACK: 'Love's Just A Broken Heart' (Parlophone). It's Cilia — she's great, but this is one of those things that need a second listen. ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 March 1967
MM EXCLUSIVE: CHRIS WELCH probes the Great Break Up and finds the Spencer Davis-Stevie Winwood split inevitable ...
Interview by uncredited writer, Rave, May 1967
Stevie Winwood walked out on success when he left the Spencer Davis Group. Now he intends to lose his image, and change his style and ...
No jams in sight for Stevie and Traffic
Interview by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 15 July 1967
THE PAPER sun begins to sink below the chart horizon but as each day is born queues of fans await the happy, happy day when ...
New Singles from the Stones, Monkees, Jimi Hendrix et al
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 August 1967
STONES — CONSIDERABLY TOO MUCH ...
Traffic: Uncontrollable Traffic
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 September 1967
KEITH ALTHAM pins down a highly elusive group... ...
Traffic: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 30 September 1967
TRAFFIC GREAT AT SAVILLE ...
Traffic: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 30 September 1967
AFTER CENTURIES in hibernation Traffic left their country womb last Sunday to make their debut at London's Saville Theatre, and certainly in potentiality they must ...
Traffic's British Stage Debut Was Well Worth Waiting For
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 30 September 1967
TRAFFIC HAVE been a long time getting it all together but last Sunday's debut at the London Saville proved that it has been well worth ...
Traffic's Life of Isolation Ends in London
Interview by Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 30 September 1967
THE TRAFFIC'S splendid isolation in the wilds of Berkshire has temporarily ended. Pressure of success has forced the group into town and now they share ...
Traffic's Dave Mason — Pop Face Of 1967
Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 7 October 1967
REMEMBER the teenage idol – all liquid eyes, milk teeth, Cupid's bow and simply oozing with the wonder ingredient, sex appeal? Eyes right and you ...
Traffic, Vanilla Fudge, Tomorrow, The Flowerpot Men: Finsbury Park Astoria, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 October 1967
IT WAS AN explosive opening night For the Traffic-Tomorrow-Fudge tour at London's Finsbury Park Astoria on Wednesday of last week. The Fudge came off the ...
The Who, Traffic, the Tremeloes, Marmalade, the Herd, the Dream: City Hall, Sheffield
Live Review by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 4 November 1967
TREMELOES IN top form; Pete Townshend having another "smashing" time; Herd's Peter Frampton a solo smash; still screams for Traffic's Stevie; impressive debut for the ...
The Who, Traffic, the Herd, the Tremeloes, Marmalade: Walthamstow Granada, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 November 1967
FANS WENT wild for both houses of the Who-Herd-Traffic-Tremeloes tour when it hit Walthamstow Granada on Saturday. ...
Traffic, The Who, The Herd: Danger: Who At Work!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 11 November 1967
THE WHO-TRAFFIC-Herd-Tremeloe tour, while proving to be a sell-out attraction, has caused a certain amount of anxiety among those people whose job it is to ...
Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 9 December 1967
TRAFFIC IN the City may have come to a stand-still due to the recent rail dispute, but Traffic in the charts is still moving full ...
Traffic: Dave Quits, But Traffic Keeps Moving
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 December 1967
DESPITE THE INTENDED departure of songwriter and sitarist Dave Mason, Traffic wheels are turning with renewed vigour. ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 December 1967
THE BIRTH of the Traffic was this year after months of planning and searching and getting themselves together. ...
Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 23 December 1967
Jim Capaldi talks to David Griffiths ...
Traffic: Stevie's Back On The Beer Again
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 6 January 1968
ALL IS not lost! Stevie Winwood is drinking beer again! It is pleasing to report the Traffic boss was observed entering a London ale house ...
Traffic, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 27 April 1968
Traffic, a British Trio, Flows With Subtlety at Fillmore East ...
Traffic: Stevie Winwood, A Calm, Shy Superfreak
Report and Interview by Al Kooper, Rolling Stone, 27 April 1968
IT WAS LATE 1965 and Mike Bloomfield was with Butterfield and I was with the Project. We were sitting in my apartment listening to a ...
Traffic and the US Underground
Interview by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 1 June 1968
THE "UNDERGROUND" in England is a collection of dark damp platforms and jostling crowds and miles and miles of tube trains weaving in and out ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Oberman, Evening Star, The (Washington DC), 6 July 1968
NOW, WHEN the pop music highways are as crowded with groups as city streets are with cars, Traffic has come to mean something more than ...
The Nice, Traffic, Pretty Things, the Action, Eyes: Hyde Park, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 August 1968
"ALL THIS needs is for John Peel to appear with three loaves and five fishes and he could feed the ten thousand," said an observer ...
Traffic, Nice, Junior's Eyes, Pretty Things: Hyde Park London
Live Review by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 3 August 1968
Such a NICE day in the park ...
Comment by John Sinclair, Fifth Estate, 15 August 1968
NOW THAT things have cooled down a little for the MC5 and myself after all the excitement of recent weeks maybe I can get into ...
NME Reporters Cover the Weekend's Major Event — the Eighth National Jazz and Blues Festival
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...
8th National Jazz & Blues Festival: Lazy Sunbury Afternoon...
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 17 August 1968
PLAGUED BY DISASTER AND COUNTLESS SETBACKS, THE SUNBURY FESTIVAL PRESENTED SOME OF THE BEST MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT EVER SEEN. RM WAS THERE. ...
Report by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 7 September 1968
Observe four old young men known just as Traffic/Suffer their tedious setting the stage/Then hark to their magical music and live it/And when the fuzz ...
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 14 September 1968
GREAT TRAFFIC LP ...
Traffic, Staple Singers, Crome Syrcus: Fillmore East, New York NYC
Live Review by Ian Dove, Billboard, 5 October 1968
Traffic Travel on Bumpy And Separate Musical Road ...
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 5 October 1968
The latest in an exciting series ...
Traffic: Traffic (Island Stereo ILPS 908IT) *****
Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 12 October 1968
TRAFFIC DITTIES ON THEIR NEW ALBUM ...
Traffic: You Can All Join In (Island)
Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 12 October 1968
Traffic cannot be faulted ...
Traffic: Traffic (United Artists UAL 6676)
Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 15 December 1968
Second Traffic Album Released ...
Traffic Is Very Heavy Today: An Interview With Steve Winwood
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, January 1969
AT THE time I interviewed Steve Winwood, Traffic's American tour had just been cancelled, and Steve himself was rumored to be in a state of ...
Steve Winwood says — Groups must play much much softer
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1969
"FREAKING OUT with volume is over. Everybody seemed to think volume was the revolution of the music. That's okay theatrically, but not musically." ...
Report and Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 4 January 1969
TRAFFIC has broken up. The announcement, made in London this week, came at a time when Traffic had finally broken through in the United States. ...
Into Traffic with Steve Winwood
Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1969
IN PART Two of our interview, Traffic's Steve Winwood and I talked about producing, songwriting, the creation of 'Dear Mr. Fantasy', and interpretive critics. ...
Traffic: An Interview With Steve Winwood
Interview by Paul Nelson, Circus, March 1969
TRAFFIC CRASHED recently (see "Hullabulletin" elsewhere in this issue for the story of the split), but not before Steve Winwood and I had a long ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 26 April 1969
Island Records boss CHRIS BLACKWELL talks to Richard Green ...
Traffic at Berkshire Cottage: Just Playing Together was a Fantasy
Report and Interview by David Dalton, Rolling Stone, 3 May 1969
THE COTTAGE is an hour and a half from London, but it's thousand light years from Soho Square. Henley is like driving through a postcard, ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 5 December 1969
IT'S VERY difficult you see. The record companies send you FREE records to review and something goes wrong: not enough space, a strangely appalling record ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
PEACEFUL FESTIVAL OF GOOD MUSIC ...
Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 August 1970
WHATEVER analytical terms are used by people in attempting to define Traffic's music, however many superlatives are attached to the group and among the hundreds ...
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die (Island stereo ILPS 9116; 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 1 August 1970
THE FIRST Traffic album for far too long consists of a mere six tracks. This is not a bad thing though because each one is ...
Alone Together: Mason and Cass
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 17 September 1970
LONDON — Dave Mason was sitting about 6,000 miles away from the action. While his album, Alone Together, was booming in America, with a first ...
Ric Grech: Traffic's One Big Happy Family
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 10 October 1970
IT WAS good to see Ric again. We talked in melancholic tones of hazy days when gangster Grech, cigarette hanging from his lips, pumped out ...
Stevie Winwood Talks About The Future Of Traffic
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 19 June 1971
SLUMPED IN a chair, Steve Winwood looked tired. ...
Traffic: Welcome To The Canteen (Island 12TS 9165; £2.15)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 11 September 1971
TRAFFIC MUSICAL HISTORY ...
Traffic: The Gaumont, Worcester
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 25 September 1971
TRAFFIC: THEY NEVER PLAY THE SAME TWICETour review by TONY STEWART ...
Traffic: The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (Island ILPS 9180, £2.15)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 4 December 1971
FRANKLY I am more than a little disappointed with the new Traffic album, mainly because I had put so much faith in the new line-up ...
Traffic: The Low Marks of Well Heeled Boys
Comment by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, January 1972
SOME NOTES ABOUT THE SLOWING DOWN OF TRAFFIC ...
Traffic: The Grech Traffic Report
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 15 January 1972
A RECENT trip to America proved to be a traumatic period for Traffic. ...
Stones Producer Jimmy Miller Part Two: The tracks I like best
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972
In this final part of his interview with Ritchie Yorke, Miller talks about the many artists he has recorded, and in particular about tracks which ...
Steve Winwood: Winwood (U.A. Import).
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 6 January 1973
WHAT A strange world it is. A couple of years ago this same double set was released in America, and swiftly withdrawn following objections – ...
Traffic: Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory (Island)
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 13 January 1973
COME ON NOW, put away the hammer and nails and the coffin; save them for a much lesser band than Traffic. Agreed, over the last ...
Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 27 January 1973
ONE ONLY HAS to mention the name Traffic these days and somebody'll grunt, groan and lower their eyes, dismissing the subject. Undeniably, the group have ...
Report by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 24 February 1973
WHEN FOUR people have given rock one of its biggest facelifts, it's natural they should never be far apart. So in the same way that ...
Traffic: Shoot Out At The Fantasy (Island)
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, March 1973
FOR A BRIEF but heady period Traffic were my favourite rock band. I still get a spark from the thought of a new Traffic album ...
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 3 March 1973
THE FIRST ENCORE at the Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, started with Jim Capaldi up front, his face pressed hard against a microphone to ring out ...
Stevie Winwood: Not Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band
Retrospective by Ben Edmonds, Phonograph Record, April 1973
I MADE INITIAL contact with Stevie Winwood in March of 1966, a weekend rebel still in the high school clutches of suburban Boston. As was ...
Traffic: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 21 April 1973
DEAR MR. FANTASY played us some tunes, something that made us all happy. No, it was more than that. All of us at the London ...
Traffic: Shoot Out At the Fantasy Factory
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, May 1973
They're playing it on the FM progressive stations. It's five o'clock in the morning, and some snoring deejay is claiming that Stevie Winwood really has ...
Stevie Winwood: 'I'm Gonna Do An Album A Week!'
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 May 1973
IT'S BEEN many a long year since Stevie Winwood has made impact as an individual on the English rock scene. ...
Review by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 13 October 1973
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW ...
Review by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 17 November 1973
TRAFFIC, ON OCCASIONS, have the ability to sound like the most demanding and mature rock band in the world. Trouble is, each time they've reached ...
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 20 December 1973
TIME TO open Tiven's rock dictionary and search for a few very basic definitions: ...
Stevie Winwood: Sixties Soul Survivor
Profile by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 June 1974
"STEVE'S only 25 you know. When people criticise him and say he's not as good as he used to be in the old days, they ...
Traffic, Lindisfarne: Academy of Music, New York NY
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 28 September 1974
Terrible Traffic ...
Traffic: Where The Eagle Flies
Review by Gary Sperrazza!, Shakin' Street Gazette, 10 October 1974
RECORD COMPANIES amuse me. As soon as their bands get an established name, the corporate mouths start watering as they see visions of dollar signs ...
Steve Winwood: Goodbye Mr Fantasy, Hello Midland Maniac
Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 7 May 1977
THE SIXTIES are very much alive in Ladbroke Grove these days. Tucked away in the back of Island's Basing Street Studios, swinging London gently reverberates ...
Steve Winwood: Don't Call Him Stevie
Interview by Penny Valentine, Creem, November 1977
When Steve Winwood was 15 years old he was the child prodigy/focal point of the Spencer Davis Group. Singing with a soul voice experienced beyond ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jonathan Morrish, Trouser Press, January 1978
By Way of Introduction ...
Steve Winwood Keeps On Running
Interview by Jim Farber, Creem, April 1981
The Diver Comes Up For Air ...
Interview: Island Records' Chris Blackwell (1989) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1989
This is a transcript of John Tobler's 1989 audio interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, May 1997
IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1993, 30 years after he first heard Ray Charles sing, that Steve Winwood met his lifelong idol. Winwood happened to be ...
Chris Blackwell: A Man of Wealth & Taste
Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1999
For forty years, CHRIS BLACKWELL has survived on killer instincts, killer bud and tough business tactics. Along the way, he's changed the course of pop ...
10 Questions for Steve Winwood
Interview by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, April 2004
The blue-eyed soul voice behind the Spencer Davis Group and Traffic on jamming with Jimi Hendrix, the madness of Viv Stanshall and the problems of ...
Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, Summer 2007
RELEASED AT the tail end of the summer of love, 'A Hole In My Shoe' was hailed by NME as "an incredible disc which you ...
School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008
BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...
Traffic: Getting It Together In The Country
Retrospective and Interview by Paul Moody, Uncut, November 2008
Dust down the Tibetan Book Of The Dead and buy in the "apple yoghurt". In 1968, Traffic — four blazing talents of rock, R'n'B, jazz ...
Empire of the Sun: Island at 50
Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, June 2009
The grand scheme of a gambler with a taste for chicken blood, Jamaican label Island Records introduced Bob Marley and U2 to the world. On ...
Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die (Deluxe Edition)
Review by Rob Young, Uncut, April 2011
Winwood and pals' pastoral funk apogee, remastered. ...
Traffic Jammer Dave Mason Peers Into His Future's Past
Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 14 May 2014
MOST OF THE TIME, a traffic jam is a wholly unpleasant experience and something to avoid at all costs. But when the said confluence of ...
Fantasy and Reality: Traffic, Part One
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Shindig, March 2017
50 years ago, four musicians moved into a haunted Berkshire cottage. Surrounded by ancient sites and monuments, they ignited a unique musical melting pot that ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Shindig, April 2017
NOW WITHOUT any band at all, Island released Traffic's Last Exit in May, consisting of singles that ironically started with Mason's 'Just For You'. ...
see also Dave Mason
see also Steve Winwood
see also Jim Capaldi
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