Traffic

At best, records are frozen instants of music. The ultimate musical experience is always
live. It's a rare artist who does not reveal much of himself and his work by the way he
attacks the task of playing it, and you have to be there to know what it means. Some few
records manage to bridge the gap, simply by overpowering the barriers, storming the gates
of electronic distance and repetition with sheer unified energy. The rest are ...... More >

With Dave Mason gone there's not much electric guitar or songwriting, leaving the chronically indecisive Stev(i)e Winwood to his feckless improvised rock, or is it folksong-based jazz? Not much bass no matter what it is. And Chris Wood blows a lot. (Grade: C+)