Albums: Mr. Fantasy, John Barleycorn Must Die, Traffic

There is more than one artist with this name: 1. Traffic started out in the mid-60s with Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, and Chris Wood after Winwood left The Spencer Davis Group. From the beginning, they were quite popular in their native England, though success elsewhere was slower in coming.

Their first three albums combined psychedelic rock with elements of folk and soul music. Within Britain (at least), Traffic reached a much wider audience when, on the dissolution of Cream, two thirds of that band joined Steve Winwood (during a temporary Traffic disbanding) to form Blind Faith, which also included future Traffic member and sometime Family man, Ric Grech. In 1970, after the disbanding of Blind Faith, Winwood set about recording a solo album.

After Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi became involved, the decision was taken to release this album (eventually what would become John Barleycorn Must Die) under the Traffic name, despite the absence of Dave Mason. Around 1971, Mason left for good (having been in and out of the band from the beginning), and the the band experienced a variety of personnel changes. The resulting band added some jazzy elements to their style, and the compositions tended to stretch out over longer lengths.

With their albums The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971) and Shootout at the Fantasy Factory (1973) their popularity in the US grew. After one more album, personnel problems resulted in the band calling it quits (but for a brief reunion in 1994 without Wood, who had died in 1983). Winwood, Mason, Capaldi, and Wood all pursued solo careers, with Winwood garnering the most success.

2. traFFic is an Estonian pop band, consisting of 4 members: Silver Laas, Stig Rästa, Tõnis Kivisild and Ivo Priilinn. The original Estonian name was Wjiiojfsgan but they changed their name to Traffic hoping that someone might buy one of their CD's by mistake.

It did not work and they have yet to sell one.

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