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Low Spark of High Heeled Boys | 
 enlarge | Artist: Traffic
Label: Island
Category: Music
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 1286
Format: Extra Tracks, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 548827
UPC: 731454882729
EAN: 0731454882729
ASIN: B0000639A3
Release Date: March 19, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Hidden Treasure | | • | The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys | | • | Light Up Or Leave Me Alone | | • | Rock & Roll Stew | | • | Many A Mile To Freedom | | • | Rainmaker | | • | Bonus Track - Rock & Roll Stew (Single Version) |
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Amazon.com
Despite not even charting in the band's native England, this album became a platinum-selling American hit on the basis of three enduring FM radio staples--the expansive, jazzy impressionism of the near-12 minute title track, and the more straightforward funk of the R&B charmers "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" and "Rock & Roll Stew." Those disparate tracks perfectly underscore Traffic's rich musical appeal and its restless, sometimes problematic creative and interpersonal relationships. With now thrice-departed Dave Mason out of the mix and percussionists Jim Gordon and Reebop Kwaku Baah participating in the studio for the first time, the band's innate musicality truly takes wing. Winwood's familiar vocal phrasings nearly take a backseat to his fluid, dramatic guitar work on "Rock & Roll Stew Roll" and "Many a Mile to Freedom," while the Tull-ish, folk-madrigal sensibilities of "Hidden Treasure" and "Rainmaker" are further punctuated by Chris Wood's deft flute and woodwind flourishes. Compared with the more organic John Barleycorn album, the contrast is all the more remarkable. While many contemporary bands were experimenting with various attempts at fusion, few achieved this collection's rock-jazz-folk-R&B range or level of often subtle sophistication. Digitally remastered, this edition also contains the six-minute-plus U.S. single version of "Rock & Roll Stew, Parts 1 & 2" as a bonus track. --Jerry McCulley
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Winwood at his best July 18, 2008
I stumbled across this album late (1975) and recall being fairly floored at the time that I was not familiar with it (albeit that I had had John Barleycorn for years prior).
Simply put, Steve Winwood was a genius on the emotive and exploratory edge of electric guitar, something that seems entirely lost to multiple generations of guitarists and listeners. Listen, if you will, to the trailing guitar licks on Light Up or Leave Me Alone and tell me if you don't feel the presence of something 'bigger' than the rest of all the BS garbage guitar work out there these days. And yet listeners who don't, in fact, listen will have no idea what I'm talking about...
Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (the song) sits at a level above Stairway, Gimme Shelter, and even Layla as without question one of best rock n' roll songs every written and executed.
Get educated, buy this CD....But if you're lazy or oversaturated with todays overproduced crap you'll never 'get it'. Good luck.
 The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys March 19, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Traffic-The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys ****
Traffics The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys is a jazz/rock classic. It is both progressive and yet very basic simultaneously. Combining elements of prog with jazz and basic rock n' roll elements. Featuring such Traffic classics as the twelve minute title track `The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys' the blunt (not pun intended) `Light Up Or Leave Me Alone' which features a killer wah-wah guitar solo, something that Traffic became known for, and perhaps the greatest song Traffic ever recorded with the exception of `Mr. Fantasy' is the brilliant `Rock & Roll Stew.' All three went on to become rock classics and seem to still get regular air play despite their time length.
The musicianship on the album is amazing as well. The guitar playing and percussion especially. Steve Winwood of course being the master mind behind the whole thing. The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys is Traffics strongest album and one that at the very least deserves at least one spin in everyone's stereo.
 more of the same traffic March 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album's supposed to be Traffic at its most commercial, but it may also be Traffic at its most boring. It's a lot of what Winwood was already trying to do in his singles on the earlier albums: British versions of soul, proto-jam band jamming, but there are no extraordinary moments. It is consistent, and it is easy to listen to, but not for an indication of the most progressive things happening in early 70's rock and pop.
Low Spark January 2, 2008
Almost 40 years after it was recorded, this album still has what it takes. Listen to it a few times and you will hear yourself humming it on the way to work or play.
the best of nostalgia music December 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
WOW, unbelievable clarity of Stevie's vocals if you have only heard this on vinyl or the radio. If you think you know any of your favorite tunes from the late sixties and you have not heard them on cd,I had to pull the car over it was so over whelming.
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