Heavyweight 180g Vinyl LP Reissue Remastered from the Original Tapes!

One of the greatest British rock acts of their generation Traffic emerged from the West Midlands as Birmingham's very own Beatles. Deeply psychedelic at first, later acid folk related their music remains an inventive template for any band with aspirations to musical excellence. Utilizing improvisational methods with tremendous versatility they employed Mellotron and harpsichord, sitar and reeds as well as the conventional rock flavors. Given that their stand out performers were Stevie Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason and Chris Wood such excellence was hardly a surprise.

Their first single "Paper Sun" was a 1967 sound of the summer. Mason's "Hole in My Shoe," a more lighthearted acid rock piece, was even bigger and once they'd teamed up with producer Jimmy Miller to create their getting back to the country 1967 full-length debut album Mr. Fantasy (much of it jammed to perfection in their idyllic country garden) it was obvious that Island Records had signed themselves a British wonder. Boasting a rustic sensibility on "Heaven Is in Your Mind" and the elegiac "Berkshire Poppies" the album also majors in the hippy freedom movement of the times on Mason's "House for Everyone" and the bittersweet "Coloured Rain."

Remastered from the original tapes and pressed on 180g heavyweight vinyl LP with the artwork caringly overseen and interpreted.