Led by the great, soulful vocals of Steve Winwood and an exotic, meandering
array of distorted grooves, Traffic stood alongside the likes of Cream and Jimi
Hendrix as blues-rock favourites who took rock music into a new chaotic, warped,
psychedelic territory in the late 1960s and early '70s.
Winwood originally found fame as a 15-year-old on the R&B scene in Birmingham
and was regarded as the closest thing anybody in England had heard at that time
to Ray Charles and the great American soul singers. As front man of The Spencer
Davis Group, he topped the UK Charts with singles 'K...