Traffic were pea and faggot Mods who became psychedelic popsters and ‘got it together in the country’.
Their career-defining third album, from 1970, is reissued this week with a disc of live tracks and outtakes. Its floaty flute-augmented jazz rock, typical of the period, suddenly seems oddly contemporary, with modern day musicians like Wolf People raking the era for licks.
Every Mother’s Son impresses, with its strangely weightless gravity, but the entirely unrepresentative title track, in which Traffic essayed, briefly and tantalisingly, a fleet English folk rock more fluid and mysterious than Fairport or Pentangle, would do you as a stand-alone download.
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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John Robins, Comedian
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Chez, Chortle.com
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Idrie, Youtube
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com