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February 25, 2004

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2004: Traffic

Dave Mason recounts Traffic's bumpy road to Cleveland
July 8, 1971

Traffic Becomes a Big Band

British rockers begin to swing

Far From Home

Rather than recapture past glories, reunion albums generally just remind us that those glories are indeed past. Updating a once-popular sound seems beyond older rock musicians – most come across as either ridiculously retro or hopelessly passé.

That's hardly the case with Traffic. Apart...

1994 RS: 3of 5 Stars

When The Eagle Flies

1974

Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory

1973

Welcome To The Canteen

1971

John Barleycorn Must Die

1970

Traffic

1968

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Traffic boasted the reedy, soulful vocals, cerebral keyboards, and guitar of Steve Winwood, the sharp grace of lyricist Jim Capaldi's drumming, the elegance of Chris Wood's flute and sax, and Dave Mason's way with melody. Copping ideas from a range of genres -- jazz, classical, and Eastern -- for a kind of embryonic world music, the band epitomized the ambitious impulse of the best British late-'6...

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