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Hole In My Shoe - Traffic


Rola: Hole In My Shoe
Traducción: Hoyo en mi zapato
Intérprete: Traffic
Compositor: Dave Mason
Disco: Best of Traffic
Productor: Jimmy Miller
Orden al bat: 067

HISTORIA

"Hole in My Shoe" is a song by Traffic which as a single release reached #2 in the UK charts in 1967. Composed by their then guitarist Dave Mason, it is one of the defining tracks of acid rock, although it has been suggested that Steve Winwood disliked the song, feeling that it did not represent the band's real musical or lyrical style.

The brief monologue in the middle was spoken by a girl named Francine Heimann.

In the sitcom The Young Ones, Neil, one of the principal characters, continually sang a recognisable line from "Hole In My Shoe". Eventually, in July 1984, Nigel Planer who played the role released a cover version of the song, which reached the same #2 peak as the original. He also performed the song as Neil on the BBC show Top of the Pops, where he asked Paul Weller to "listen to the lyrics!". The single won "Best Comedy Single" at the 1985 Brit Awards during the days the event was called "The BPI Awards". The press saw the one-off award category as completely invented by the panel just for the single.


DATOS DE LA GRABACIÓN

Duración: 03:04
Año: 1967
Formato: 7"
A la venta: 01/08/1967
Lado B: Smiling Phases
Disquera: Island Records


MÚSICOS

Jim Capaldi – percusión, batería, teclado y voz
Dave Mason – voz, bajo, guitarra y melotrón
Steve Winwood – voz, órgano, piano, bajo, guitarra, percusión, clavecín y teclados
Chris Wood – flauta, saxofón, órgano y voz


POPULARIDAD POR VENTAS (BILLBOARD - HIT PARADE)

En las listas semanales de popularidad y ventas de la revista Billboard Hole In My Shoe llegó al número 2


ESCUCHA HOLE IN MY SHOE



LETRA

Hole In My Shoe
Hoyo en mi zapato
I looked in the sky
Where an elephant's eye
Was looking at me
From a bubblegum tree
And all that I knew was
The hole in my shoe which
Was letting in water (letting in water)

I walked through a field
That just wasn't real
With 100 tin soldiers
Which stood at my shoulder
And all that I knew was
The hole in my shoe which
Was letting in water (letting in water)

(I climbed on the back of a giant albatross
Which flew through a crack in the cloud
To a place where happiness reigned all year round
And music played ever so loudly)

I started to fall
And suddenly woke
And the dew on the grass
Had soaked through my coat
And all that I knew was
The hole in my shoe which
Was letting in water (letting in water)

Miré en el cielo
Donde el ojo de un elefante
me miraba
desde un árbol de chicle
y todo lo que sabía era
que el hoyo en mi zapato
permanecía en el agua (permanecía en el agua)

Caminé hacia un campo
que no era real
Con 100 soldados de plomo
parados en mi hombro
y todo lo que sabía era
que el hoyo en mi zapato
permanecía en el agua (permanecía en el agua)

(Trepé a la espalda de un albatros gigante
que volaba para estrellarse contra una nube
para situarse donde la felicidad reinaba durante todo el año
y la música sonaba siempre tan fuerte)

Comenc´é a caer
Y repentinamente desperté
y el rocío en el pasto
había mojado mi abrigo
y todo lo que sabía era
que el hoyo en mi zapato
permanecía en el agua (permanecía en el agua)


HOLE IN MY SHOE VIENE EN EL L.P. BEST OF TRAFFIC

VERSIÓN INGLESA

LADO A
1. "Paper Sun"
2. "Heaven Is In Your Mind"
3. "No Face, No Name, No Number"
4. "Coloured Rain"
5. "Smiling Phases"
6. "Hole In My Shoe"



LADO B
1. "Medicated Goo"
2. "Forty Thousand Headmen"
3. "Feelin' Alright"
4. "Shanghai Noodle Factory"
5. "Dear Mr. Fantasy"



VERSIÓN ESTADOUNIDENSE

LADO A
1."Paper Sun"
2. "Dealer"
3. "Coloured Rain"
4. "Hole In My Shoe"
5. "No Face No Name & No Number"
6. "Heaven Is In Your Mind"




LADO B
1. "House For Everyone"
2. "Berkshire Poppies"
3. "Giving To You"
4. "Smiling Phases"
5. "Dear Mr Fantasy"
6. "We're A Fade, You Missed This"


This is the best of Traffic from the band's first three albums (their debut MR. FANTASY, the self-titled second album, and LAST EXIT). Thereafter they disbanded, only to soon reform and continue with an ever-changing line-up around mainstays Steve Winwood, Jim Capladi and Chris Wood. The period covered on this collection is truly their best work. They created some strong, lasting material after this (including the popular JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE), but these eleven songs find them at their purest--with each track full of wonder and a sense of newness. The proceedings are tinged with the gentle, folkish psychedelia of the late '60s. Nobody else has ever sounded like Traffic circa this era. This is a recommended entry point for anyone unfamiliar with their first albums. For a broader picture, try the two-CD set SMILING PHASES, which charts the entirety of their career.

The Best of Traffic is an excellent sampler of their best work with Dave Mason.

INTÉRPRETE

Traffic: Birmingham

Traffic fue un grupo de rock, procedente de Birmingham, Inglaterraformado hacia mediados de la década de los 60, y estuvo liderado por Steve Winwood, con Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, y Dave Mason, Winwood se unió a la banda después de dejar de lado al grupo con el que tocaba hasta entonces, el Spencer Davis Group.

Los cuatro componentes colaboraron conjuntamente con un grupo llamado The Elbow Room, en Aston, Birmingham. Mason y Capaldi estaban ansiosos por formar un grupo, y Winwood se les unió junto con Chris Wood, y se trasladaron al campo, aislados en Aston Tirrold, Berkshire, para poder experimentar.

El debut de Traffic se produjo en 1967, con el single Paper Sun en el Reino Unido. Hole in My Shoe fue su segundo single, el cual fue un gran éxito. En aquel momento empezaron las broncas entre Winwood y Mason, pese a lo cual a banda debutó con el disco Mr.Fantasy, el cual gozó de una buena recepción en el Reino Unido, no así en los Estados Unidos

Los problemas con Mason se acentuaron y produjeron su expulsión del grupo, un poco antes del estreno de Mr. Fantasy. Mason estaba contento por evadir todo tipo de responsabilidad con el grupo, un contraste directo con el compositor del grupo de Capaldi y Winwood. El grupo continuó sin Mason, y Winwood no tuvo otra salida que tocar el pedal bass, el teclado, y cantar cuando el grupo comenzó a actuar en directos. El grupo sufrió mucho, ya que tenía que mantener un repertorio repleto de canciones sin la gran habilidad de Mason para componer. Mason se reincorporó a la banda en su segundo álbum, Traffic, publicado en 1968.

La banda empezó a ir de gira por USA en 1968, lo que supuso la publicación al año siguiente de su tercer álbum Last Exit, en el que una gran parte del disco está grabado en vivo. Durante la gira, Mason fue despedido, y Winwood anunció la disolución de la banda. Winwood formó Blind Faith, con Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, y Ric Grech, que duró sólo un año.

Los miembros que permanecieron a Traffic comenzaron un proyecto con Mick Weaver, más conocido como Wooden Frog, dicho intento se quedó solamente en eso, en un intento, ya que no pudieron grabar ningún álbum. Después de la ruptura de Blind Faith en 1969, Winwood comenzó su etapa como solista, grabando en ocasiones algún otro álbum de Traffic (sin Mason), John Barleycorn Must Die, su álbum de más éxito hasta la actualidad.

OTRAS VERSIONES

Nigel Planer

Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic


Querido Sr. Fantasía tóquenos una tonada
Algo que nos haga felices
Haga lo que sea para sacarnos de esta penumbra
Cante una canción, toque la guitarra
Hágalo rápido

Usted es el único que puede hacernos reir
Aunque con eso usted rompa en llanto
Por favor no esté triste si tiene una mente en orden
No lo conocíamos durante todos esos años


DATOS DE LA GRABACIÓN

DATOS TÉCNICOS DE LA ROLA

Título: Dear Mr. Fantasy
Traducción: Querido Sr. Fantasía
Compositor: Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood
Intérprete: Traffic
Productor: Jimmy Miller
A la venta: 01/12/1967
Formato: L.P.
Incluída en el L.P. Mr. Fantasy
Disquera: Island Records
Orden al bat: 090

LETRA

Dear Mr. Fantasy
Querido Sr. Fantasía
Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy

You are the one who can make us all laugh
But doing that you break out in tears
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had
We wouldn't have known you all these years
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh Ahhhhh

Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy

Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune
Something to make us all happy
Do anything take us out of this gloom
Sing a song, play guitar
Make it snappy

You are the one who can make us all laugh
But doing that you break out in tears
Please don't be sad if it was a straight mind you had
We wouldn't have known you all these years

Querido Sr. Fantasía tóquenos una tonada
Algo que nos haga felices
Haga lo que sea para sacarnos de esta penumbra
Cante una canción, toque la guitarra
Hágalo rápido

Usted es el único que puede hacernos reir
Aunque con eso usted rompa en llanto
Por favor no esté triste si tiene una mente en orden
No lo conocíamos durante todos esos años
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh
Oooo Ahhhhh Ahhhhh

Querido Sr. Fantasía tóquenos una tonada
Algo que nos haga felices
Haga lo que sea para sacarnos de esta penumbra
Cante una canción, toque la guitarra
Hágalo rápido

Querido Sr. Fantasía tóquenos una tonada
Algo que nos haga felices
Haga lo que sea para sacarnos de esta penumbra
Cante una canción, toque la guitarra
Hágalo rápido

Usted es el único que puede hacernos reir
Aunque con eso usted rompa en llanto
Por favor no esté triste si tiene una mente en orden
No lo conocíamos durante todos esos años


DEAR MR. FANTASY VIENE EN EL L.P. MR. FANTASY

VERSIÓN INGLESA

LADO A
1. "Heaven Is in Your Mind"
2. "Berkshire Poppies"
3. "House for Everyone"
4. "No Face, No Name, No Number"
5. "Dear Mr. Fantasy"



LADO B
1. "Dealer"
2. "Utterly Simple"
3. "Coloured Rain"
4. "Hope I Never Find Me There"
5. "Giving to You"


VERSIÓN ESTADOUNIDENSE

LADO A
1."Paper Sun"
2. "Dealer"
3. "Coloured Rain"
4. "Hole In My Shoe"
5. "No Face No Name & No Number"
6. "Heaven Is In Your Mind"




LADO B
1. "House For Everyone"
2. "Berkshire Poppies"
3. "Giving To You"
4. "Smiling Phases"
5. "Dear Mr Fantasy"
6. "We're A Fade, You Missed This"



MÚSICOS

Jim Capaldi – batería, percusión y voz
Dave Mason – guitarra, melotrón, sitar, tambura, shakkai, bajo y voz
Steve Winwood – órgano, guitarra, bajo, piano, clavecín, percusión y voz
Chris Wood – flauta, saxofón, órgano, percusión y voz


INTÉRPRETE

Traffic: Birmingham


OTRAS VERSIONES

The Grateful Dead; Jimi Hendrix; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; Eric Clapton; Los Lobos

Dealer - Traffic




DATOS DE LA GRABACIÓN

DATOS TÉCNICOS DE LA ROLA

Título: Dealer
Traducción: Vendedor
Compositor: Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi
Intérprete: Traffic
Productor: Jimmy Miller
A la venta: 01/12/1967
Formato: L.P.
Incluída en el L.P. Mr. Fantasy
Disquera: Island Records
Orden al bat: 091

LETRA

Dealer
Vendedor
As the evening sun goes down
The Dealer shuffles into town
Makes a note of what's a float
And spinning 'round he'll cut your throat
In the time it takes to heal
The dealer's made another deal
When he plays he plays for keeps
And sweeps the spinning roulette wheel
Dealer, Dealer

Like the mighty ocean's roar
He gets all his share and more
Mexican right to the core and very proud

He'll get even with the score
Leave your wife
a weeping widow on the shore

Between the desert and the dove
Money is his only love
Feeling nothing deep inside
His mind is governed by his pride
In a smoky little room
Shadows moving in the gloom
Someone turns a running flush
And breaks the deathly quiet hush
Dealer, Dealer



DEALER VIENE EN EL L.P. MR. FANTASY

VERSIÓN INGLESA

LADO A
1. "Heaven Is in Your Mind"
2. "Berkshire Poppies"
3. "House for Everyone"
4. "No Face, No Name, No Number"
5. "Dear Mr. Fantasy"



LADO B
1. "Dealer"
2. "Utterly Simple"
3. "Coloured Rain"
4. "Hope I Never Find Me There"
5. "Giving to You"


VERSIÓN ESTADOUNIDENSE

LADO A
1."Paper Sun"
2. "Dealer"
3. "Coloured Rain"
4. "Hole In My Shoe"
5. "No Face No Name & No Number"
6. "Heaven Is In Your Mind"




LADO B
1. "House For Everyone"
2. "Berkshire Poppies"
3. "Giving To You"
4. "Smiling Phases"
5. "Dear Mr Fantasy"
6. "We're A Fade, You Missed This"



MÚSICOS

Jim Capaldi – batería, percusión y voz
Dave Mason – guitarra, melotrón, sitar, tambura, shakkai, bajo y voz
Steve Winwood – órgano, guitarra, bajo, piano, clavecín, percusión y voz
Chris Wood – flauta, saxofón, órgano, percusión y voz


INTÉRPRETE

Traffic: Birmingham


You Can All Join In - Traffic


Rola: You Can All Join In
Traducción: Puedes unirte a nosotros
Intérprete: Traffic
Compositor: Dave Mason
Disco: Traffic
Productor: Jimmy Miller

HISTORIA

This second album by Traffic opens with "You Can All Join In", a Dave Mason song with a lovely little hook:- any old words, steps, life, according to which verse you are currently listening.

In “You Can All Join In” would you find a yakety sax for flower children and, of course, you can all join in on 'You Can All Join In', a nice, saxophone-led shuffle which is sure stolen from some old folk ditty, but I don't mind, it's classy. The acoustic rhythm is a lot of fun and the silly sax snorts are catchy.

the album opening with Mason’s quirky You Can All Join In. And, as I mentioned earlier, it is crisp rock, with lead guitar and saxophone working superbly together. Melodic, with whimsical lyrics, it is nevertheless a lovely piece of blues rock. “Here’s a little song you can all join in with / It’s very simple and I hope it’s new / Make your own words up if you want to / Any old words that you think will do, yeah / Yellow, blue, what’ll I do? Maybe I’ll just sit here thinking / Black, white, stop the fight, does one of these colours ever bother you?” This was at a time when the Beatles had taken music apart and recreated it in their own image. Anything was possible, and Mason was proving he knew there were virtually no limits to what he could write about. “Here’s a little dance you can all join in with / It’s very simple and I hope it’s new / Make your own steps up if you want to / Any old steps that you think will do / Left, right, don’t get uptight, keep in line and you’ll be alright / Clap hands, move around, make sure no one puts you down.” The existential angst which many felt as the cold war intensified – and became decidedly hot in places like Vietnam at this time – is probably part of the reason for these cynical observations. Experimentation with drugs may well also have been a factor. “Here’s a little world you can all join in with / It’s very simple and I hope it’s new / Make your own life up if you want to / Any old life that you think will do / Love, yeah, it’s nothing new, there’s someone much worse off than you are / Help me set them free, just be what you want to be.”


DATOS DE LA GRABACIÓN

Duración: 03:39
Año: 1968
Formato: 7"
A la venta: 01/10/1968
Lado B: Withering Tree
Disquera: Island Records


MÚSICOS

Dave Mason - voz principal y guitarra
Steve Winwood - guitarra eléctrica, bajo y coros
Chris Wood - saxofón tenor
Jim Capaldi - batería y coros


POPULARIDAD POR VENTAS (BILLBOARD - HIT PARADE)

En las listas semanales de popularidad y ventas de la revista Billboard You Can All Join In llegó al número 17


ESCUCHA YOU CAN ALL JOIN IN



LETRA

You Can All Join In
Puedes unirte a nosotros
Here’s a little song you can all join in with:
It’s very simple and I hope it’s new.
Make your own words up if you want to:
Any old words that you think will do.

Yellow, blue, what’ll I do?
Maybe I’ll just sit here thinking.
Black, white, stop the fight.
Does one of these colours ever bother you?

Here’s a little dance you can all join in with:
It’s very simple and I hope it’s new.
Make your own steps up if you want to:
Any old steps that you think will do.

Left, right, don’t get uptight.
Keep in line and you’ll be alright.
Clap hands, move around.
Make sure no one puts you down.

Here’s a little world you can all join in with:
It’s very simple and I hope it’s new.
Make your own life up if you want to:
Any old life that you think will do.

Love you, it’s nothing new.
There’s someone much worse off than you are.
Help me set them free.
Just be what you want to be.



ANÁLISIS

Let’s start with a review of the lyrics.

Here’s a little song you can all join in with:
It’s very simple and I hope it’s new.
Make your own words up if you want to:
Any old words that you think will do.

Yellow, blue, what’ll I do?
Maybe I’ll just sit here thinking.
Black, white, stop the fight.
Does one of these colours ever bother you?

Here’s a little dance you can all join in with:
It’s very simple and I hope it’s new.
Make your own steps up if you want to:
Any old steps that you think will do.

Left, right, don’t get uptight.
Keep in line and you’ll be alright.
Clap hands, move around.
Make sure no one puts you down.

Here’s a little world you can all join in with:
It’s very simple and I hope it’s new.
Make your own life up if you want to:
Any old life that you think will do.

Love you, it’s nothing new.
There’s someone much worse off than you are.
Help me set them free.
Just be what you want to be.

Perhaps the first thing to confess about these lyrics is that they don’t stand alone very well as poetry. That is, there is nothing particularly deep, subtle or powerful about the way the words work on the listener. This admission is not a damning one, however, since the whole point of rock is that the words don’t have to stand on their own. But having gotten this admission out of the way, let’s see what the words do offer us.

There’s a pleasant combination of repetition and progression going from one verse to another, as the singer proceeds to talk first about the song, then a dance, then finally the entire world. The overall theme of the song is one of liberation, telling the listener to “make your own life up if you want to: any old life that you think will do.” At the same time, though, there is a theme of responsible community: issues of race relations, conformity and love for your fellow man are all raised, if not exactly dealt with. More convincingly, the singer tells us that “you can all join in” — with the song, the dance, and ultimately the world. All in all, pleasant sentiments.

It is the music, however, that lends authority to the words. First, the structure of the song seems borrowed from a square dance, or a reel, or some other sort of communal folk dance. This immediately adds resonance and authenticity to the lyrics, reminding us of simple communities of the past in which some of the lyrics were very literally true: people did take turns calling out different lyrics and dance steps for each verse of the song.

Then there are the track’s infectious rhythms, woven from vocals, hand claps, acoustic and electric guitars, and Chris Wood’s saxophone. Even today, after hearing the song repeatedly over the course of thirty-plus years, it is hard for me to listen to the song without breaking into a grin and tapping my feet. So, in a very real way, the listener does join in, responding affirmatively to the singer’s invitation.

Finally there is the loose collaboration of the song’s music. Background vocals and hand claps appear at times. There is space between verse and chorus, after each chorus, and at the end of the song for improvisation. These spaces are filled by Mason on electric guitar, Wood on sax, and Mason on vocals. Dave Mason actually demonstrates his verbal suggestions, making up additional lyrics to the song while guitar and sax vamp in the background. Again, there is nothing particularly exciting about the words themselves — some of them are simply nonsense words or noises — but Mason creates the completely genuine impression that he is making them up as he goes along. He even pulls the producer into the fray, observing towards the end of the song, “There’s Jimmy Miller swinging to and fro.” (Audio clip - 200K.) The overall effect is one of people expressing their own individuality, yet working together in harmony: exactly the theme of the lyrics. And there is nothing gratuitous or self-indulgent about the recording — the whole affair clocks in at only three minutes and thirty-four seconds.

I have to admit that I find this recording utterly convincing. The music exhibits the sense of cooperative democracy that was at the heart of rock music in the sixties. Each contributor’s work bears the unmistakable stamp of its creator — Mason’s folky lyrics and vocals and infectious acoustic guitar, and jazzy electric guitar stylings, Wood’s honking saxophone, Miller’s production values — yet all these contributions work together in a harmony all the more beautiful because it was clearly not planned, not arranged in advance, but simply sprang naturally out of the affinity the contributors had for each other. This was a genuinely new way of working, living and being together and — for all of its fragility — it still makes me want to ask, thirty years on, why more of our lives can’t be lived like this.


YOU CAN ALL JOIN IN VIENE EN EL L.P. TRAFFIC


LADO A
1. "You Can All Join In"
2. "Pearly Queen"
3. "Don't Be Sad"
4. "Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring"
5. "Feelin' Alright"


LADO B
1. "Vagabond Virgin"
2. "(Roamin' Thru the Gloamin' with) 40,000 Headmen"
3. "Cryin' to Be Heard"
4. "No Time to Live"
5. "Means to an End"


Traffic is the second album by the English rock band Traffic, released in 1968 on Island Records in the United Kingdom, and United Artists in the United States, catalogue UAS 6676. It peaked at #9 in the British album charts on October 26, 1968, and at #17 on the Billboard 200.[

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.[2] In May, the band had invited Mason back to begin recording the new album.

Mason ended up writing and singing half of the songs on the album, but making scant contribution to the songs written by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood. His flair for pop melody had always been at odds with the others' jazz ambitions, evidenced by the dichotomy seen for the songs on this album, and by October he was again out of the band.[3] He would return one more time for a tour and album in 1971 to run out the band's contract.


INTÉRPRETE

Traffic: Birmingham

Traffic fue un grupo de rock, procedente de Birmingham, Inglaterraformado hacia mediados de la década de los 60, y estuvo liderado por Steve Winwood, con Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, y Dave Mason, Winwood se unió a la banda después de dejar de lado al grupo con el que tocaba hasta entonces, el Spencer Davis Group.

Los cuatro componentes colaboraron conjuntamente con un grupo llamado The Elbow Room, en Aston, Birmingham. Mason y Capaldi estaban ansiosos por formar un grupo, y Winwood se les unió junto con Chris Wood, y se trasladaron al campo, aislados en Aston Tirrold, Berkshire, para poder experimentar.

El debut de Traffic se produjo en 1967, con el single Paper Sun en el Reino Unido. Hole in My Shoe fue su segundo single, el cual fue un gran éxito. En aquel momento empezaron las broncas entre Winwood y Mason, pese a lo cual a banda debutó con el disco Mr.Fantasy, el cual gozó de una buena recepción en el Reino Unido, no así en los Estados Unidos

Los problemas con Mason se acentuaron y produjeron su expulsión del grupo, un poco antes del estreno de Mr. Fantasy. Mason estaba contento por evadir todo tipo de responsabilidad con el grupo, un contraste directo con el compositor del grupo de Capaldi y Winwood. El grupo continuó sin Mason, y Winwood no tuvo otra salida que tocar el pedal bass, el teclado, y cantar cuando el grupo comenzó a actuar en directos. El grupo sufrió mucho, ya que tenía que mantener un repertorio repleto de canciones sin la gran habilidad de Mason para componer. Mason se reincorporó a la banda en su segundo álbum, Traffic, publicado en 1968.

La banda empezó a ir de gira por USA en 1968, lo que supuso la publicación al año siguiente de su tercer álbum Last Exit, en el que una gran parte del disco está grabado en vivo. Durante la gira, Mason fue despedido, y Winwood anunció la disolución de la banda. Winwood formó Blind Faith, con Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, y Ric Grech, que duró sólo un año.

Los miembros que permanecieron a Traffic comenzaron un proyecto con Mick Weaver, más conocido como Wooden Frog, dicho intento se quedó solamente en eso, en un intento, ya que no pudieron grabar ningún álbum. Después de la ruptura de Blind Faith en 1969, Winwood comenzó su etapa como solista, grabando en ocasiones algún otro álbum de Traffic (sin Mason), John Barleycorn Must Die, su álbum de más éxito hasta la actualidad.