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In 1994, Winwood and Capaldi reformed the group for a one-off touring group, with Wood having died of pneumonia in 1983. The footage from the tours has been recorded in the live compilation ''Last Great Traffic Jam'' in 2005. Winwood and Capaldi also recorded a final studio album in the band's name around the time of their tour. The band got inducted in the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame in 2004.
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In 1994, Winwood and Capaldi reformed the group for a one-off touring group, with Wood having died of pneumonia in 1983. The footage from the tours has been recorded in the live compilation ''Last Great Traffic Jam'' in 2005. Winwood and Capaldi also recorded a final studio album in the band's name around the time of their tour. The band got (more specifically, the four founding members) was inducted in the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame in 2004.
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* LongestSongGoesLast: "Every Mother's Son" (7:05), which closes out ''John Barleycorn Must Die''.
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* LongestSongGoesLast: "Every Mother's Son" (7:05), which closes out ''John Barleycorn Must Die''.Die'' ends with "Every Mother's Son," which runs at 7:05. None of the other tracks on the album pass the six-minute mark.
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* LongestSongGoesLast: ''John Barleycorn Must Die'' ends with "Every Mother's Son," which runs at 7:05. None of the other tracks on the album pass the six-minute mark.
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** Roll Right Stones is about death and the hereafter, set to a pleasant song that could otherwise wind up as a closing credit to a movie with a happy ending. Go figure.
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* UncommonTime: parts of Roll Right Stones go to 11/8.
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* LongTitle: For albums, ''The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys'' and ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory''. One of their songs is also called "Roamin' Thru' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen", although the original release on ''Traffic'' just called it "Forty Thousand Headmen".
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* OfficiallyShortenedTitle: One of their songs is also called "Roamin' Thru' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen", although the original release on ''Traffic'' just called it "Forty Thousand Headmen".
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** Rock and Roll Stew kind of zig-zags is a funky song about how exhausting it is to be on tour performing live, but acceptance of the lifestyle on the road at the same time.
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** Rock and Roll Stew kind of zig-zags is - it's a funky funk song about how exhausting it is to be on tour performing live, but acceptance of the lifestyle on the road at the same time.
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** Light Up or Leave Me Alone is an upbeat and kinda funky song that takes shape as a sort of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to an unknown woman negligent to the singer.
** Rock and Roll Stew kind of zig-zags is a funky song about how exhausting it is to be on tour performing live, but acceptance of the lifestyle on the road at the same time.
** Light Up or Leave Me Alone is an upbeat and kinda funky song that takes shape as a sort of TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to an unknown woman negligent to the singer.
** Rock and Roll Stew kind of zig-zags is a funky song about how exhausting it is to be on tour performing live, but acceptance of the lifestyle on the road at the same time.
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* [[Music/DerekAndTheDominos Jim Gordon]] - drums (1971–74)
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: "John Barleycorn"
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* '''Jim Capaldi''' - drums, percussion, vocals (1967-9, 1970-4, 1994; died 2005)
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* [[Music/DerekAndTheDominos Jim Gordon]] - drums (1971-2)
* Ric Grech - bass, violin (1970-2; died 1990)
* Roger Hawkins - drums (1972-3; died 2021)
* David Hood - bass (1972-3)
* [[Music/{{Can}} Rebop Kwaku Baah]] - percussion (1971-4; died 1983)
* Ric Grech - bass, violin (1970-2; died 1990)
* Roger Hawkins - drums (1972-3; died 2021)
* David Hood - bass (1972-3)
* [[Music/{{Can}} Rebop Kwaku Baah]] - percussion (1971-4; died 1983)
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* [[Music/DerekAndTheDominos Jim Gordon]] - drums (1971-2)
(1971–74)
* Ric Grech - bass, violin(1970-2; (1970–72; died 1990)
* Roger Hawkins - drums(1972-3; (1972–73; died 2021)
* David Hood - bass(1972-3)
(1972–73)
* [[Music/{{Can}} Rebop Kwaku Baah]] - percussion(1971-4; (1971–74; died 1983)
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* Roger Hawkins - drums
* David Hood - bass
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* '''Chris Wood''' - flute, saxophone, keyboards (1967-9, 1970-4; died 1983)
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* '''Music/SteveWinwood''' - vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass (1967-69, 1970-4, (1967–69, 1970–74, 1994)
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Traffic is a rock band formed in 1967 in Birmingham, UK, with their initial membership consisting of Music/SteveWinwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason. Starting out as a PsychedelicRock band first and foremost, they had eventually diversified their sounds, incorporating elements of {{Soul}}, [[FolkMusic Folk]], {{Jazz}}, and ProgressiveRock. They had briefly disbanded in 1969, with Steve Winwood forming the supergroup Blind Faith which only lasted a year. In 1970, the band regrouped and released their biggest album ''John Barleycorn Must Die''. This incarnation of the band lasted to 1974, releasing three more studio albums and two live albums. The stress of touring had gotten to Steve Winwood, prompting him to quit the band and pursue a successful solo career, and the rest of the band decided that they cannot carry on without him.
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Traffic is a rock band formed in 1967 in Birmingham, UK, [[UsefulNotes/TheWestMidlands Birmingham]], [[UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom UK]], with their initial membership consisting of Music/SteveWinwood, Music/SteveWinwood (formerly of the Spencer Davis Group), Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason. Starting out as a PsychedelicRock band first and foremost, they had eventually diversified their sounds, incorporating elements of {{Soul}}, [[FolkMusic Folk]], {{Jazz}}, and ProgressiveRock. They had briefly disbanded in 1969, with Steve Winwood forming the supergroup Blind Faith which only lasted a year. In 1970, the band regrouped and released their biggest album ''John Barleycorn Must Die''. This incarnation of the band lasted to 1974, releasing three more studio albums and two live albums. The stress of touring had gotten to Steve Winwood, prompting him to quit the band and pursue a successful solo career, and the rest of the band decided that they cannot carry on without him.
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Traffic is a rock band formed in 1967 in Birmingham, UK, with their initial membership consisting of Music/SteveWinwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason. Starting out as a PsychedelicRock band first and foremost, they had eventually diversified their sounds, incorporating elements of {{Soul}}, [[FolkMusic Folk]], {{Jazz}}, and ProgressiveRock. They had briefly disbanded in 1969, with Steve Winwood forming the supergroup Blind Faith which only lasted a year. In 1970, the band regrouped and released their biggest album ''John Barleycorn Must Die''. This incarnation of the band lasted to 1974, releasing three more studio albums and two live albums. The stress of touring had gotten to Steve Winwood, prompting him to quit the band and pursue a successful solo career, and the rest of the band decided that they cannot carry on without him.
In 1994, Winwood and Capaldi reformed the group for a one-off touring group, with Wood having died of pneumonia in 1983. The footage from the tours has been recorded in the live compilation ''Last Great Traffic Jam'' in 2005. Winwood and Capaldi also recorded a final studio album in the band's name around the time of their tour. The band got inducted in the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame in 2004.
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!!Studio Discography:
* 1967 - ''Mr. Fantasy''[[note]]originally released in the US as ''Heaven Is in Your Mind'' with a substantially altered track list; recent reissues combine all the tracks from both versions onto one CD[[/note]]
* 1968 - ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Traffic]]''
* 1969 - ''Last Exit''[[note]]Side One is a studio album, while Side Two is a live recording from The Fillmore Auditorium[[/note]]
* 1970 - ''John Barleycorn Must Die''
* 1971 - ''The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys''
* 1973 - ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory''
* 1974 - ''When the Eagle Flies''
* 1994 - ''Far from Home''
!!Live Discography:
* 1971 - ''Welcome to the Canteen''
* 1973 - ''On the Road''
* 2005 - ''Last Great Traffic Jam''
!!Members (Founding members in '''bold'''):
* Barry Beckett - Keyboards (1973; died 2009)
* Randall Bramblett - flute, saxophone, keyboards (1994)
* '''Jim Capaldi''' - drums, percussion, vocals (1967-9, 1970-4, 1994; died 2005)
* [[Music/{{Can}} Rosko Gee]] - bass (1974, 1994)
* [[Music/DerekAndTheDominos Jim Gordon]] - drums (1971-2)
* Ric Grech - bass, violin (1970-2; died 1990)
* Roger Hawkins - drums (1972-3; died 2021)
* David Hood - bass (1972-3)
* [[Music/{{Can}} Rebop Kwaku Baah]] - percussion (1971-4; died 1983)
* '''Dave Mason''' - vocals, guitar, sitar, bass (1967, 1968, 1971)
* Michael [=McEvoy=] - keyboards, guitar, viola (1994)
* Walfredo Reyes, Jr. - percussion, drums (1994)
* '''Music/SteveWinwood''' - vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass (1967-69, 1970-4, 1994)
* '''Chris Wood''' - flute, saxophone, keyboards (1967-9, 1970-4; died 1983)
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!! And the thing that you're hearing is the only sound of the low spark of high-heeled tropes:
* AddictionSong: While it doesn't contain any lyrics, "Tragic Magic" off ''Shoot Out'' was Chris Wood's nickname for heroin.
* AnthropomorphicVice: "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" is a traditional English folk song of which Traffic's version is particularly well known. John Barleycorn himself represents the cereal grains, especially barley, used to malt alcoholic beverages.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to ''Low Spark'', ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory'' has both a darker cover and concerns darker themes such as addiction, isolation, and creative burnout.
** ''When The Eagle Flies'' counts too.
* EpicRocking: Many of their tracks from ''John Barleycorn Must Die'' onwards have exceeded six minutes, and even before then they would easily make ten in live concerts. Their longest studio cuts are "Roll Right Stones" (13:40), "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" (11:41), and "Dream Gerrard" (11:03). Studio tracks breaking six minutes:
** ''John Barleycorn Must Die'': "Glad" (6:59), "Freedom Rider" (6:20), "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (6:20), "Every Mother's Son" (7:05) - in short, four of the six tracks on the album.
** ''The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys'': "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" (11:41), "Many a Mile to Freedom" (7:16), "Rainmaker" (7:52). The bonus track "Rock & Roll Stew Parts 1 & 2" also runs for 6:07.
** ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory'': "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory" (6:05), "Roll Right Stones" (13:40), "Tragic Magic" (6:43), "(Sometimes) I Feel So Uninspired" (7:31) - four of the five tracks on the album.
** ''When the Eagle Flies'': "Dream Gerrard" (11:03), "Graveyard People" (6:05), "Walking in the Wind" (6:48)
** ''Far from Home'': "Far from Home" (8:33), "Nowhere Is Their Freedom" (6:57), "Holy Ground" (7:48), "State of Grace" (7:16)
* FolkMusic: A lot of their material is influenced by or falls outright into this genre, most notably the title track of ''John Barleycorn Must Die'', an arrangement of a Scottish/English drinking song which could've easily passed for a Music/FairportConvention song.
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Glad" and "Tragic Magic"
* JazzFusion: They have several tracks that fall into this territory, such as "Glad", the opening track of ''John Barleycorn Must Die''.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "Every Mother's Son" (7:05), which closes out ''John Barleycorn Must Die''.
* LongTitle: For albums, ''The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys'' and ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory''. One of their songs is also called "Roamin' Thru' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen", although the original release on ''Traffic'' just called it "Forty Thousand Headmen".
* MarketBasedTitle: The first US release of their first album was called ''Heaven Is in Your Mind'' rather than ''Mr Fantasy'', and it had a substantially different track listing, incorporating "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", "Smiling Phases", and "We're a Fade, You Missed This" and deleting "Hope I Never Find Me There" and "Utterly Simple". It also incorporates snippets of the band's single "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" in between some songs. It was renamed to ''Mr. Fantasy'' for the second pressing, but it kept the ''Heaven Is in Your Mind'' track listing until Creator/UnitedArtistsRecords went out of business in 1980, at which point Creator/IslandRecords released the UK stereo version in the US. Recent CD releases combine all the tracks from both versions onto one disc. As a result, there are several different versions of the album now.
* MusicIsPolitics: "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" is in part about the band's disillusionment with the record industry.
--> "The percentage you're paying is too high-priced\\
While you're living beyond all your means\\
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car\\
From the profit he's made on your dreams"
* NewSoundAlbum: ''John Barleycorn Must Die'' started the eclectic, jazz-infused sound compared to their folk/psychedelia-based beginnings.
* QuestioningTitle: "Feelin' Alright?"
* RecordProducer: Jimmy Miller, also known for producing Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' best albums (''Music/BeggarsBanquet'', ''Music/LetItBleed'', ''Music/StickyFingers'', and ''Music/ExileOnMainSt''), produced the band's early work through ''Last Exit''. ''John Barleycorn Must Die'' was produced by Winwood along with Chris Blackwell (founder of Creator/IslandRecords) and Guy Stevens (co-producer of Music/TheClash's ''Music/LondonCalling'' and also responsible for naming both Music/MottTheHoople and Music/ProcolHarum). Blackwell and Winwood seemingly traded off producing the band's later material from album to album; Capaldi and Winwood co-produced the band's final record, ''Far from Home''.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Glad" -> "Freedom Rider" is such a song.
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Hole in my Shoe" has a spoken word section by the producer's stepdaughter, where she describes traveling on the back of an albatross to a magical land.
* StepUpToTheMic: Steve Winwood was definitely the band's lead singer, but Dave Mason and Jim Capaldi have their fair share of times on the mic as well ("Feelin' Alright?" off the SelfTitledAlbum and "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" off ''Low Spark'').
* TakeThat: The "plastic princess" mentioned in "Walking in the Wind" (off ''When The Eagle Flies'') is most likely a dig at all the GlamRock topping the charts at the time of the album's conception.
* TitleTrack: ''Low Spark'' and ''Shoot Out'' both have one. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" counts for ''Mr. Fantasy''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The original lineup, clockwise from the top: Music/SteveWinwood, Chris Wood, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi]]
Traffic is a rock band formed in 1967 in Birmingham, UK, with their initial membership consisting of Music/SteveWinwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason. Starting out as a PsychedelicRock band first and foremost, they had eventually diversified their sounds, incorporating elements of {{Soul}}, [[FolkMusic Folk]], {{Jazz}}, and ProgressiveRock. They had briefly disbanded in 1969, with Steve Winwood forming the supergroup Blind Faith which only lasted a year. In 1970, the band regrouped and released their biggest album ''John Barleycorn Must Die''. This incarnation of the band lasted to 1974, releasing three more studio albums and two live albums. The stress of touring had gotten to Steve Winwood, prompting him to quit the band and pursue a successful solo career, and the rest of the band decided that they cannot carry on without him.
In 1994, Winwood and Capaldi reformed the group for a one-off touring group, with Wood having died of pneumonia in 1983. The footage from the tours has been recorded in the live compilation ''Last Great Traffic Jam'' in 2005. Winwood and Capaldi also recorded a final studio album in the band's name around the time of their tour. The band got inducted in the UsefulNotes/RockAndRollHallOfFame in 2004.
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!!Studio Discography:
* 1967 - ''Mr. Fantasy''[[note]]originally released in the US as ''Heaven Is in Your Mind'' with a substantially altered track list; recent reissues combine all the tracks from both versions onto one CD[[/note]]
* 1968 - ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Traffic]]''
* 1969 - ''Last Exit''[[note]]Side One is a studio album, while Side Two is a live recording from The Fillmore Auditorium[[/note]]
* 1970 - ''John Barleycorn Must Die''
* 1971 - ''The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys''
* 1973 - ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory''
* 1974 - ''When the Eagle Flies''
* 1994 - ''Far from Home''
!!Live Discography:
* 1971 - ''Welcome to the Canteen''
* 1973 - ''On the Road''
* 2005 - ''Last Great Traffic Jam''
!!Members (Founding members in '''bold'''):
* Barry Beckett - Keyboards (1973; died 2009)
* Randall Bramblett - flute, saxophone, keyboards (1994)
* '''Jim Capaldi''' - drums, percussion, vocals (1967-9, 1970-4, 1994; died 2005)
* [[Music/{{Can}} Rosko Gee]] - bass (1974, 1994)
* [[Music/DerekAndTheDominos Jim Gordon]] - drums (1971-2)
* Ric Grech - bass, violin (1970-2; died 1990)
* Roger Hawkins - drums (1972-3; died 2021)
* David Hood - bass (1972-3)
* [[Music/{{Can}} Rebop Kwaku Baah]] - percussion (1971-4; died 1983)
* '''Dave Mason''' - vocals, guitar, sitar, bass (1967, 1968, 1971)
* Michael [=McEvoy=] - keyboards, guitar, viola (1994)
* Walfredo Reyes, Jr. - percussion, drums (1994)
* '''Music/SteveWinwood''' - vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass (1967-69, 1970-4, 1994)
* '''Chris Wood''' - flute, saxophone, keyboards (1967-9, 1970-4; died 1983)
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!! And the thing that you're hearing is the only sound of the low spark of high-heeled tropes:
* AddictionSong: While it doesn't contain any lyrics, "Tragic Magic" off ''Shoot Out'' was Chris Wood's nickname for heroin.
* AnthropomorphicVice: "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" is a traditional English folk song of which Traffic's version is particularly well known. John Barleycorn himself represents the cereal grains, especially barley, used to malt alcoholic beverages.
* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to ''Low Spark'', ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory'' has both a darker cover and concerns darker themes such as addiction, isolation, and creative burnout.
** ''When The Eagle Flies'' counts too.
* EpicRocking: Many of their tracks from ''John Barleycorn Must Die'' onwards have exceeded six minutes, and even before then they would easily make ten in live concerts. Their longest studio cuts are "Roll Right Stones" (13:40), "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" (11:41), and "Dream Gerrard" (11:03). Studio tracks breaking six minutes:
** ''John Barleycorn Must Die'': "Glad" (6:59), "Freedom Rider" (6:20), "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (6:20), "Every Mother's Son" (7:05) - in short, four of the six tracks on the album.
** ''The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys'': "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" (11:41), "Many a Mile to Freedom" (7:16), "Rainmaker" (7:52). The bonus track "Rock & Roll Stew Parts 1 & 2" also runs for 6:07.
** ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory'': "Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory" (6:05), "Roll Right Stones" (13:40), "Tragic Magic" (6:43), "(Sometimes) I Feel So Uninspired" (7:31) - four of the five tracks on the album.
** ''When the Eagle Flies'': "Dream Gerrard" (11:03), "Graveyard People" (6:05), "Walking in the Wind" (6:48)
** ''Far from Home'': "Far from Home" (8:33), "Nowhere Is Their Freedom" (6:57), "Holy Ground" (7:48), "State of Grace" (7:16)
* FolkMusic: A lot of their material is influenced by or falls outright into this genre, most notably the title track of ''John Barleycorn Must Die'', an arrangement of a Scottish/English drinking song which could've easily passed for a Music/FairportConvention song.
* {{Instrumentals}}: "Glad" and "Tragic Magic"
* JazzFusion: They have several tracks that fall into this territory, such as "Glad", the opening track of ''John Barleycorn Must Die''.
* LongestSongGoesLast: "Every Mother's Son" (7:05), which closes out ''John Barleycorn Must Die''.
* LongTitle: For albums, ''The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys'' and ''Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory''. One of their songs is also called "Roamin' Thru' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen", although the original release on ''Traffic'' just called it "Forty Thousand Headmen".
* MarketBasedTitle: The first US release of their first album was called ''Heaven Is in Your Mind'' rather than ''Mr Fantasy'', and it had a substantially different track listing, incorporating "Paper Sun", "Hole in My Shoe", "Smiling Phases", and "We're a Fade, You Missed This" and deleting "Hope I Never Find Me There" and "Utterly Simple". It also incorporates snippets of the band's single "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" in between some songs. It was renamed to ''Mr. Fantasy'' for the second pressing, but it kept the ''Heaven Is in Your Mind'' track listing until Creator/UnitedArtistsRecords went out of business in 1980, at which point Creator/IslandRecords released the UK stereo version in the US. Recent CD releases combine all the tracks from both versions onto one disc. As a result, there are several different versions of the album now.
* MusicIsPolitics: "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys" is in part about the band's disillusionment with the record industry.
--> "The percentage you're paying is too high-priced\\
While you're living beyond all your means\\
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car\\
From the profit he's made on your dreams"
* NewSoundAlbum: ''John Barleycorn Must Die'' started the eclectic, jazz-infused sound compared to their folk/psychedelia-based beginnings.
* QuestioningTitle: "Feelin' Alright?"
* RecordProducer: Jimmy Miller, also known for producing Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' best albums (''Music/BeggarsBanquet'', ''Music/LetItBleed'', ''Music/StickyFingers'', and ''Music/ExileOnMainSt''), produced the band's early work through ''Last Exit''. ''John Barleycorn Must Die'' was produced by Winwood along with Chris Blackwell (founder of Creator/IslandRecords) and Guy Stevens (co-producer of Music/TheClash's ''Music/LondonCalling'' and also responsible for naming both Music/MottTheHoople and Music/ProcolHarum). Blackwell and Winwood seemingly traded off producing the band's later material from album to album; Capaldi and Winwood co-produced the band's final record, ''Far from Home''.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Glad" -> "Freedom Rider" is such a song.
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Hole in my Shoe" has a spoken word section by the producer's stepdaughter, where she describes traveling on the back of an albatross to a magical land.
* StepUpToTheMic: Steve Winwood was definitely the band's lead singer, but Dave Mason and Jim Capaldi have their fair share of times on the mic as well ("Feelin' Alright?" off the SelfTitledAlbum and "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" off ''Low Spark'').
* TakeThat: The "plastic princess" mentioned in "Walking in the Wind" (off ''When The Eagle Flies'') is most likely a dig at all the GlamRock topping the charts at the time of the album's conception.
* TitleTrack: ''Low Spark'' and ''Shoot Out'' both have one. "Dear Mr. Fantasy" counts for ''Mr. Fantasy''.
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