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. Steve 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...