Tracks:
You Can All Join In
Pearly Queen
Don't Be Sad
Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
Feelin' Alright?
Vagabond Virgin
(Roamin' Thro' The Gloamin' With) 40.000 Headman
Cryin' To Be Heard
No Time To Live
Means To An End
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
Am I What Was Or Am I What I Am
Withering Tree
Medicated Goo
Shanghai Noodle Factory
Pearly Queen
Don't Be Sad
Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring
Feelin' Alright?
Vagabond Virgin
40,000 Headmen (Roamin' Thro' the Gloamin With)
Cryin' to Be Heard
No Time to Live
Means to an End
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Bonus Tracks;from the Film Soundtrack 'Here We Go Round The
Am I What I Was Or Am I What I Am Bonus Tracks;from the Film Soundtrack 'Here We Go Round The
Withering Tree Bonus Tracks;B-side of Feelin' Alright?-Island Single WIP 60
Medicated Goo Bonus Tracks;A-side of Island Single WIP 6050
Shanghai Noodle Factory Bonus Tracks;B-side of Medicated Goo-Island Single WIP 6050

Performer Notes:

• Traffic: Dave Mason (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Steve Winwood (vocals, guitar, piano, harpsichord, organ, bass); Jim Capldi (vocals, drums, percussion); Chris Wood (flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass, percussion, bells).
• Engineers: Glyn Johns, Eddie Kramer, Brian Humphries.
• Originally released on Island (9081).
• Remastered German reissue with bonus tracks and a 12-page booklet featuring rare photos.
• Personnel: Dave Mason (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, organ); Steve Winwood (vocals, guitar, piano, harpsichord, organ, bass guitar); Jim Capaldi (vocals, drums, percussion); Chris Wood (flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bells).
• Liner Note Author: Jimmy Miller .
• Photographers: Gered Mankowitz; Richard Polak.
• On their second album, the cottage dwellers from Berkshire refined their hippie pop into a looser and vastly more mature work: evocative tales of nonsense in the beautiful "40,000 Headmen," joyful malarkey with Mason's "You Can All Join In," and one of his finest songs, "Feelin Alright," which was a signpost to his imminent departure. Throughout the record Jim Capaldi's understated yet steady drums demonstrate just what a great rock drummer should do, and Chris Wood's sound is everywhere, with trills on flute and blasts on saxophone. TRAFFIC is a record that will always be meant for glorious sunny days.

Professional Reviews: Rolling Stone (3/4/04, p.68) - 4 stars out of 5 - "TRAFFIC is a triumph of earthy cohesion, a sparkling British twist on the rural-basement R&B of the Band's MUSIC FROM THE BIG PINK....[T]his is the best album [any Traffic] lineup ever made..."

Rolling Stone (1/4/69, p.28) - "...Dave Mason is a top-notch rock and roll composer and the Steve Winwood/Jim Capaldi team is equally g up with material on a level with the Young Rascals' best work..."

Q (2/00, p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...lolloping funkiness - smeared all over 'Feelin' Alright' and 'Pearly Queen' - could only have come from such chilled-out environs [a rented cottage in Aston Tirrold, Bershire]..."

Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.106) - "...a sweet parade of soulful prog that no one else could muster....shows that Traffic were capable of thoughtful, inventive and occasionally very beautiful music."

Producer: Jimmy Miller

Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo

Studio/Live: Studio

Release Date: 1 November, 1999

Label: ISLAND

Dimensions: 14.4 x 1 x 12.8 centimeters (0.06 kg)