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"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.
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 initial U.S. release of On the Road (Island/Capitol) was a single LP consisting of "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (edited to 15:10), "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory", "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired", and "Light Up or Leave Me Alone". The album reached number 40 in the UK [1] and number 29 in the USA. [2]
It followed their 1971 album The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys and contained five songs. Shoot Out, while achieving poorer reviews than its predecessor, did reach number six on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, one space higher than Low Spark had peaked in 1972.
The album was somewhat of a departure from the psychedelia of Traffic's debut, featuring a more eclectic display of influences from blues to folk and jazz. Mason ended up writing and singing half of the songs on the album (including his biggest hit "Feelin' Alright?"), but making scant contribution to the songs written by Jim Capaldi and Steve ...
"Walking in the Wind" (Winwood, Capaldi) - 7:12 "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (Winwood, Capaldi) - 14:36 "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" (Capaldi) - 16:26 "Dear Mr. Fantasy" (Winwood, Capaldi, Chris Wood) - 7:44 "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (Traditional) - 6:57 "Gimme Some Lovin'" (Winwood, Mervyn "Muff" Winwood, Spencer Davis) - 7:25
In 1970, Traffic toured in support of their comeback album John Barleycorn Must Die, with a quartet line-up of Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi, and Ric Grech.In November, the group played a series of concerts at the Fillmore East, and recordings from these concerts were compiled into a live album, to be called Live Traffic, [5] consisting of "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring", "Glad ...