No respectable DJ then or now would dare to play “Glad” without “Freedom Rider” following it! Less jazzy but no less powerful, it rides on Winwood’s vocals and Wood’s flute, with tenor in the background. During the second half of the song, it mellows out as the piano again leads. Wood’s solo (with wah-wah) and Winwood’s relentless piano sold this. Capaldi drives the song, and there is a lot of percussion throughout. When Wood eased into the tune on sax, it was obvious this was a very different Traffic pattern than the one we knew.
Suffice to say that the first song “Glad” caught everyone by surprise as it leapt out at the listener, drums, bass, and organ with piano in the lead. Steve Winwood: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, organ, piano, electric piano, percussionĬhris Wood: tenor saxophone, flute, organ, percussion
Reaching #5 in the U.S., it became the highest-charting album in the band’s history. He already played many of the instruments on Traffic’s recordings, but be brought Capaldi and Wood back in, and the project eventually became the fourth Traffic album, titled John Barleycorn Must Die.
Winwood then set about to work on a solo project tentatively named Mad Shadows. After the breakup, Winwood joined Blind Faith for their meteoric rise and subsequent disbanding.
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