Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (1971) {1994, MFSL UDCD II, Remastered} Repost

Posted By: popsakov
Date: June 21, 2025

Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (1971) {1994, MFSL UDCD II, Remastered}
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 240 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 109 Mb
Covers Included | 00:40:21 | RAR 5% Recovery
Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock | Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab #UDCD 609

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is the fifth studio album by English rock band Traffic, released in 1971. The album was Traffic's most successful in the United States, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and becoming their only platinum-certified album there, indicating sales in excess of one million. However, it failed to chart in the United Kingdom. The album features the minor hit "Rock & Roll Stew" and the title track, which received heavy FM airplay.

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys marked the commercial and artistic apex of the second coming of Traffic, which had commenced in 1970 with John Barleycorn Must Die. The trio who made that album were augmented by three others (Ric Grech, Jim Gordon, and "Reebop" Kwaku Baah) in the interim, though apparently the Low Spark sessions featured varying combinations of these musicians, plus some guests. But where their previous album had grown out of sessions for a Steve Winwood solo album and retained that focus, Low Spark pointedly contained changes of pace from his usual contributions of midtempo, introspective jam tunes. "Rock & Roll Stew" was an uptempo treatise on life on the road, while Jim Capaldi's "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" was another more aggressive number with an unusually emphatic Capaldi vocal that perked things up on side two. The other four tracks were Winwood/Capaldi compositions more in the band's familiar style. "Hidden Treasure" and "Rainmaker" bookended the disc with acoustic treatments of nature themes that were particularly concerned with water, and "Many a Mile to Freedom" also employed water imagery. But the standout was the 12-minute title track, with its distinctive piano riff and its lyrics of weary disillusionment with the music business. The band had only just fulfilled a contractual commitment by releasing the live album Welcome to the Canteen, and they had in their past the embarrassing Last Exit album thrown together as a commercial stopgap during a temporary breakup in 1969. But that anger had proven inspirational, and "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" was one of Traffic's greatest songs as well as its longest to date. The result was an album that quickly went gold and then platinum in the U.S., where the group toured frequently.

~ William Ruhlmann, All Music
Discogs

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Track List:

01. Hidden Treasure [4:13]
02. The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys [11:45]
03. Rock & Roll Stew [4:27]
04. Many A Mile To Freedom [7:18]
05. Light Up Or Leave Me Alone [4:48]
06. Rainmaker [7:53]

Exact Audio Copy V1.3 from 2. September 2016

EAC extraction logfile from 10. April 2017, 18:39

TRAFFIC / «The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys» (USA, MFSL, UDCD 609)

Used drive : ASUS DRW-24B3ST Adapter: 1 ID: 2

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\EAC(v.1.3)\WV\wavpack.exe
Additional command line options : -h -hh -m %source%


TOC of the extracted CD

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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:13.00 | 0 | 18974
2 | 4:13.00 | 11:44.42 | 18975 | 71816
3 | 15:57.42 | 4:26.05 | 71817 | 91771
4 | 20:23.47 | 7:17.23 | 91772 | 124569
5 | 27:40.70 | 4:47.10 | 124570 | 146104
6 | 32:28.05 | 7:52.57 | 146105 | 181561


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Test CRC BE8FFE5A
Copy CRC BE8FFE5A
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foobar2000 1.4 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2025-06-21 16:39:11

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Analyzed: TRAFFIC / «The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys» (USA, MFSL, UDCD 609)
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -1.09 dB -14.56 dB 4:13 01-Hidden Treasure
DR10 -0.32 dB -13.40 dB 11:45 02-The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
DR12 -0.48 dB -15.36 dB 4:26 03-Rock & Roll Stew
DR12 -1.12 dB -16.25 dB 7:17 04-Many A Mile To Freedom
DR9 -0.94 dB -12.15 dB 4:47 05-Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
DR14 -0.81 dB -17.34 dB 7:53 06-Rainmaker
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Number of tracks: 6
Official DR value: DR11

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 752 kbps
Codec: WavPack
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See also:

Traffic - 5 Classic Albums (2017) (5CD Box Set}

Traffic - Traffic (1968) {1995, MFSL UDCD 629}

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