''The Last Great Traffic Jam'' is a

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and DVD from the English rock band

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. The album was recorded on the 1994 reunion tour supporting Far from Home.

DVD track listing

# "Pearly Queen" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) – 5:35 # "Medicated Goo" (Winwood, Jimmy Miller) - 5:38 # "Mozambique" (Winwood, CapaldiThe album miscredits the song as composed solely by Capaldi. Both BMI's records and the sleeve notes of '' Far from Home'' (where the song was first released) confirm that it was composed jointly by Winwood and Capaldi.) - 5:30 # "

40,000 Headmen "Roamin' Thru' the Gloamin' with 40,000 Headmen" (album title: "Forty Thousand Headmen"), written by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, was first recorded by Traffic in 1967 or 1968. It was initially released as B-side to the "No Face, No Name and ...

" (Winwood, Capaldi) - 5:14 # "Glad" (Winwood) - 6:55 # "Walking in the Wind" (Winwood, Capaldi) - 7:12 # "

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys ''The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys'' is the fifth studio album by English rock band Traffic, released in 1971. The album was Traffic's most successful in the United States, reaching number 7 on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart and becoming the ...

" (Winwood, Capaldi) - 14:36 # "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone" (Capaldi) - 16:26 # "

Dear Mr. Fantasy "Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, ''Mr. Fantasy''. Jim Capaldi contributed the lyrics, while Steve Winwood and Chris Wood composed the music. In a song review for AllMusic, Lindsay Planer commented: Dave ...

" (Winwood, Capaldi, Chris Wood) - 7:44 # " John Barleycorn (Must Die)" (Traditional) - 6:57 # "

Gimme Some Lovin' "Gimme Some Lovin" is a song first recorded by the Spencer Davis Group. Released as a single in 1966, it reached the Top 10 of the record charts in several countries. Later, ''Rolling Stone'' included the song on its list of the 500 Greatest Son ...

" (Winwood, Mervyn "Muff" Winwood, Spencer Davis) - 7:25

Bonus disc

(audio only) # "40,000 Headmen" # "John Barleycorn (Must Die)" # "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys"

Personnel

;Traffic *

Steve Winwood Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, and pop rock. Though primarily a keyboard player and vocalist prominent for his disti ...

– keyboards, guitars, lead vocals (1, 2, 4-7, 9-11) *

Jim Capaldi Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the progressive rock band Traffic in 1967 with Steve Winwood with whom he co ...

– drums, percussion, backing vocals, lead vocals (8, 10) With: * Randall Bramblett – keyboards,

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

, saxophones *

Michael J McEvoy Michael J McEvoy (born August 29, 1961) is an American screen composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist. 1980s As a session musician, writer and arranger, McEvoy worked on various projects with the producer Adam Kidron, including album ...

– keyboards, guitars,

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

, viola *

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...

– guitar on "Dear Mr. Fantasy" *

Rosko Gee Rosko Gee is a Jamaican bassist, who has played with the English band Traffic on their albums ''When the Eagle Flies'' (1974) and ''The Last Great Traffic Jam'' (2005); with Go featuring Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood, Michael Shrieve, Klaus Sch ...

– bass guitar *

Walfredo Reyes Jr. Walfredo Reyes Jr. (born Walfredo de los Reyes Palau IV; December 18, 1955) is a Cuban American musician who is an expert in drum set and auxiliary percussion, a music educator, and a clinician. He has performed with many jazz, Latin, World musi ...

– percussion, drums

Notes

References

Traffic (band) albums 1994 live albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub