Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Best Chet Baker Pieces: 20 Jazz Essentials, Best Pat Benatar Songs: 15 Power Ballads and Pop-Rock Bangers, Badu Babies: How Erykah Badu’s Vocal Style Transformed Music, How The ‘Hackers’ Techno-Forward Soundtrack Captured The Future, About Us • Contributors • Terms of Service • Privacy Policy • © 2020 uDiscoverMusic. He was on John Martyn’s 1973 set Inside Out, and worked with Shawn Phillips, Reebop Kwaku Baah, Crawler and others. Please… repeat please… get your facts straight. The four original members of Traffic were inducted for their contributions in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 15 March 2004. Steve was having recurrent problems with the peritonitis, and Chris's body was suffering from chemical warfare. [citation needed] It became the title song of their 1970 album, "John Barleycorn Must Die. "The Ends of Traffic, Soloing & Brazil", Revolutions – The Very Best of Steve Winwood, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Traffic_(band)&oldid=984618691, Musical groups from Birmingham, West Midlands, Wikipedia articles with BIBSYS identifiers, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 21 October 2020, at 03:26. For example, some songwriting credits on, "Christopher G B Wood, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008" - FamilySearch.org", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Wood_(rock_musician)&oldid=982856224, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2016, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 10 October 2020, at 19:52. Dear Mr. Fantasy featured the music of Jim Capaldi and Traffic, and all profits went to The Jubilee Action Street Children Appeal. Dear Mr. Fantasy was a celebration for Capaldi that took place at The Roundhouse in Camden Town, London on 21 January 2007. It broke the top 40 in both the UK and USA. Mason also cited discomfort with the Traffic lifestyle. Traffic's break-up was followed by two compilations from United Artists (Heavy Traffic and More Heavy Traffic), both of which only drew from the first half of their output. The following day he left the tour without a word to anyone, leaving the rest of the band waiting for him at the venue for that night's scheduled performance. Born in Quinton,[1] a suburb of Birmingham, Chris Wood had an interest in music and painting from early childhood. [11] However, these successes were soured by the departure of Hawkins, Hood, and Kwaku Baah at the end of the world tour,[9] and by Chris Wood's increasing problems with drug use and depression. Fantasy". In early 2017, his huge contribution to contemporary music history was honoured with the release of Evening Blue. [1][10], British rock musician; member of the English rock band Traffic, Dan Ropek, author of Chris Wood biography, Wood's contributions to certain songs may have initially been overlooked. Initially without electricity, telephone or running water, The Cottage (as it became universally known) was so remote that a generator had to be installed to power the group's equipment. He was taken, much too early, at just 39, in 1983. The Last Great Traffic Jam, a double live album and DVD released in 2005, documents the band's 1994 reunion tour. The band's line-up varied from this point until they disbanded again in 1974. This article is about the English band. in 1969 and the 1970 live album Ginger Baker’s Air Force. [1], Traffic disbanded in 1969 when Winwood joined the short-lived supergroup Blind Faith, then reunited in 1970 to release the album John Barleycorn Must Die. In 1969, Wood also appeared on the eponymous second album of Free and the Small Faces' The Autumn Stone. In June 2013, on Wood's 69th birthday, the Chris Wood Estate (run by his sister, Stephanie) announced that a commemorative box set was being prepared – in collaboration with contemporary music archivists HiddenMasters, to properly honour Wood's life in music. He soon got to know other like-minded local musicians in their pre-fame days. Chris’ appreciation of folk music immediately became a key ingredient in the band’s unique sonic mix. Traffic's singer, keyboardist, and guitarist Steve Winwood was the lead singer for the Spencer Davis Group at age 14. For the Estonian band, see. Following Winwood's recovery from peritonitis, Traffic's sixth studio album, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, released in 1973, met with a cold critical reception, but in sales it was another major hit. Follow the official Traffic Best Of playlist. [4] Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write and rehearse new music. And to be totally frank, "prog-rockers" is a pretty poor choice of adjectives to apply to … At the time, he was working on a solo album that was to be titled Vulcan, and had recorded material for the album over the previous few years, mostly in London at Island's Hammersmith Studio, The Fall Out Shelter, with engineer Terry Barham, as well as at Pathway Studios in London. The late Chris Wood, born on 24 June 1944, will always be best known as a founding member of Traffic. Wood also wrote ‘Tragic Magic’ on 1973’s Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory. The album included a surplus recording from The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, "Open Your Heart", and the new tracks featured drummer Roger Hawkins and bassist David Hood, from the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio house band. [1] Winwood, Wood, and Capaldi wanted to take the group in a different direction, opting for a folk/blues style rather than their earlier psychedelic/eclectic rock sound, while Mason was oriented towards psychedelic pop. It was shortly followed by a major world tour, from which the double live album, On the Road, was drawn. But his talents as a flute, saxophone and keyboard player, and sometime writer, were also much employed in numerous other settings. He said it’s a song that we all might relate to as we deal with whatever this “new normal.” Nate played the song “Tomorrow” from the musical “Annie.” [3] After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic. He died of pneumonia, after battles with drink, drugs and depression, on 12 July 1983. [5], Wood introduced the 17th century traditional song "John Barleycorn" to the band after hearing it on The Watersons album Frost and Fire. Wood, who excelled on sax and flute and was proficient on piano, bass and guitar, was a founding member of Traffic in 1967, along with Steve Winwood, drummer Jim Capaldi and guitarist Dave Mason. Throughout Traffic's life, Chris was also in demand as a session musician with his immediately identifiable flute or saxophone playing cropping up on albums by Rebop Kwaku Baah , Tyrone Downie , Fat Mattress , Gordon Jackson, Crawler, The Sky, Bobby Whitlock and … "[6], Wood played with Jimi Hendrix in 1968, appearing on Electric Ladyland. [1], Aged 18, Wood joined the Steve Hadley Quartet, a jazz/blues group in 1962. Traffic opened for the Grateful Dead during their summer tour. Winwood, Capaldi, Mason, and Stephanie Wood (standing in for her late brother Chris) all attended the ceremony. Atlanta, the home of OutKast, CeeLo Green, Usher, and really the whole "Dirty South" hip hop thing, is not a place normally associated with bands that play super-complex all-original instrumental art-rock. Wood was profoundly affected by her death.[2]. [2] Their second single, Mason's psych-pop "Hole in My Shoe", was an even bigger hit (#4 Canada), and it became one of their best-known tracks. It seemed to me a normal thing to do. ‘Joanne’: How Lady Gaga Dropped The Masks And Let The Music Speak For Itself, Stax Legends 2: Steve Cropper, Soulful Guitarist, Songwriter Supreme, ‘My Ding-A-Ling’: A No. His most notable contribution is as the co-writer (with Winwood and Capaldi), of "Dear Mr. So, you may have to pinch yourself when you hear Traffic by Atlanta-based prog-rockers Faun and a Pan Flute. [4], In Traffic, Wood primarily played flute and saxophone, occasionally contributing keyboards, bass and vocals. Christopher Gordon Blandford Wood (24 June 1944 – 12 July 1983) was a British rock musician, most known as a founding member of the British rock band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Dave Mason. [10] Feeling Winwood had been integral to Traffic's music, the remaining members opted not to continue the band without him. LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – With fewer and fewer cars on the road, 8NewsNow Traffic Anchor Nate Tannenbaum played his flute instead of giving a report on road conditions on Friday morning. In 1970, Wood and his wife, along with Steve Winwood, joined Ginger Baker's Air Force, releasing one album before reforming Traffic. The band was dissolved by Winwood's leaving in early 1969. [12], Tentative plans for another Traffic project were cut short by Jim Capaldi's death from stomach cancer at age 60 in January 2005, ending the songwriting partnership with Winwood that had fueled Traffic from its beginning.

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