Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys MFSL Gold CD Neu OVP Sealed UDCD 609 mit J-Card

Erscheinungsdatum: 1. August 1994
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Import aus: USA
Format: Audio CD
Tonträger CD
Besonderheiten Limited Edition, 24kt. Gold-CD
Jahr 1994
Orig. Release 1971
Zeit 40:19
Plattenfirma MFSL
Herstellungsland USA
Musikrichtung Rock
EAN-Nr. 015775160927
Katalog-Nr. UDCD 609

     Tracks

1. Hidden Treasure 4:13   
2. The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys 11:43   
3. Rock & Roll Stew 4:26   
4. Many A Mile To Freedom 7:17   
5. Light Up Or Leave Me Alone 4:47   
6. Rainmaker 7:53


Produktbeschreibungen

 
Audio
Steve Winwood und Jim Capaldi "verkehren" wieder als Traffic-Neuauflage. Schön und gut; aber das Original, auf Low Spark mit Chris Wood plus Rick Grech, Jim Gordon und Reebop, war besser: im sessionartigen, fast zwölfminütigen Titelsong, im trickreichen Rock & Roll Stew, im meditativ-forcierten Rainmaker. Die improvisatorische Lust prägt, geht aber nie mit ihnen durch. Die Soli, ob urwüchsige Orgel oder kerniges Sax, kommen auf den Punkt. Und stets hat das melodische Moment Ecken, Kanten, Überraschungen - in Gold klar glänzender zu genießen.
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Stereoplay
Ihrem sensationellen Debüt "Mr. Fantasy" von 1967 ließen die britischen Exzentriker Capaldi, Mason, Winwood und Wood binnen Jahresfrist hochkarätigen Nachschub folgen: "Forty Thousand Headmen", "Feelin' Alright" und "Pearly Queen" bildeten den Grundstoff für diesen Klassiker. Und mit reichlich Jazz-Feeling reklamierte Wunderknabe Steve Winwood bei "No Time To Live" die Führungsrolle im britischen Soul-Oberhaus. Die Klanggurus von MFSL verpaßten diesem Klassiker von 1968 stärker konturierte Baßlinien und minderten das lästige Höhenrauschen. ** Interpret.: 08-10

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Review by William Ruhlmann
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys marked the commercial and artistic apex of the second coming of Traffic, which had commenced in 1970 with John Barleycorn Must Die. The trio that made that album had been augmented by three others (Ric Grech, Jim Gordon, and "Reebop" Kwaku Baah) in the interim, though apparently the Low Spark sessions featured varying combinations of these musicians, plus some guests. But where their previous album had grown out of sessions for a Steve Winwood solo album and retained that focus, Low Spark pointedly contained changes of pace from his usual contributions of midtempo, introspective jam tunes. "Rock & Roll Stew" was an uptempo treatise on life on the road, while Jim Capaldi's "Light up or Leave Me Alone" was another more aggressive number with an unusually emphatic Capaldi vocal that perked things up on side two. The other four tracks were Winwood/Capaldi compositions more in the band's familiar style. "Hidden Treasure" and "Rainmaker" bookended the disc with acoustic treatments of nature themes that were particularly concerned with water, and "Many a Mile to Freedom" also employed water imagery. But the standout was the 12-minute title track, with its distinctive piano riff and its lyrics of weary disillusionment with the music business. The band had only just fulfilled a contractual commitment by releasing the live album Welcome to the Canteen, and they had in their past the embarrassing Last Exit album thrown together as a commercial stopgap during a temporary breakup in 1969. But that anger had proven inspirational, and "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" was one of Traffic's greatest songs as well as its longest so far. The result was an album that quickly went gold (and eventually platinum) in the U.S., where the group toured frequently.