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The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is the fifth studio album by English rock band Traffic, released in 1971. The album was Traffic's most successful in the United States, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and becoming their only platinum -certified album there, indicating sales in excess of one million.
Traffic were an English rock band formed in Birmingham [4] in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. [5] They began as a psychedelic rock group and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as keyboards (such as the Mellotron and harpsichord), sitar, and various reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz and improvisational techniques in their ...
"The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" is the title track from the 1971 album by British rock band Traffic, written by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood. Despite never being released as a single due to its long duration, it became a staple of North American AOR-format FM radio stations in the 1970s and still receives airplay on classic rock radio today.
Heavy Traffic – 1975 US #155; More Heavy Traffic – 1975 US #193; Smiling Phases – 1991; Heaven Is in Your Mind - An Introduction to Traffic – 1998 (part of Island's An Introduction to... series) Feelin' Alright: The Very Best of Traffic – 2000 (re-released in 2007 as The Definitive Collection, part of Universal's The Definitive ...
The Steve Winwood band in 2009 on tour. Winwood's next studio album Nine Lives was released in 2008. [48] [49] [better source needed] Nine Lives opened at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart, [50] his highest US debut ever. [citation needed] On 19 February 2008, Winwood and Clapton released a collaborative EP through iTunes titled Dirty City.
In January 1968, after some initial success in Britain with their debut album Mr. Fantasy, Dave Mason had departed from the group. He produced the debut album by the group Family, containing in its ranks future Traffic bass player Ric Grech, while Traffic went on the road. [4] In May, the band had invited Mason back to begin recording the new ...
On The Road is the second live album (two LPs on initial European releases; later reissued on one CD) by English rock band Traffic, released in 1973.Recorded live in Germany, it features the Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory band, with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of keyboardist Barry Beckett, bassist David Hood, and drummer Roger Hawkins.
Steve Winwood is the debut solo studio album by blue-eyed soulster Steve Winwood.It was released in 1977, three years after the break-up of his former band, Traffic.Though the album sold moderately well in the US, it was a commercial disappointment compared to Traffic's recent albums, peaking at number 22 on the Billboard albums chart.