Traffic

UK

Formed: 1967

Died: 01 January 1994

Years Active: 60, 70

Genres: Pop/Rock, Blues

Styles: Album Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock, Electric Texas Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Modern Electric Texas Blues, Rock & Roll/Roots, Prog-Rock, Art-Rock/Experimental, Arena Rock

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Though it ultimately must be considered an interim vehicle for singer/songwriter/keyboardist/guitarist Steve Winwood, Traffic was a successful group that followed its own individual course through the rock music scene of the late '60s and early '70s. Beginning in the psychedelic year of 1967 and influenced by the Beatles, the band early on turned out eclectic pop singles in its native Great Britain, though by the end of its first year of existence it had developed a pop/rock hybrid tied to its unusual instrumentation: At a time when electric gu...

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