The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, by the classic rock ensemble Traffic, led by the prolific Steve Winwood, is now available on MP3 format from Amazon this month for only $5.00.

By 1971, Traffic had already experienced major success with the prior release from 1970, “John Barleycorn Must Die” and Winwood was already pretty much a veteran of the late 1960s British classic rock boom and found big success with this album as well.

In its original release the sleeve was formatted in a unique die cut manner, which led to the already spacey, ambient, loose, cool cocktail laid back rock and roll intertwined with funk and even pop that was evident on Low Spark. In summing up the career of Traffic, the band never really found a solid set sound, their style and uniqueness was their inability to roll comfortably in a set genre, and thus, their catalog remains a sprawling, reaching adventurous foray into the annals of a band almost playing things improv sometimes and somehow quite effectively in the process.

Witness the diversity of songs on “The Low Spark”¦” from the title cut, the long but not overlong progressive slice of jazzy rock to the oft remembered “Rock and Roll Stew,” the wonderfulness of the haunting majestic “Rainmaker,” and the join me for a smoke or blow out of here, fun and groovy “Light Up or Leave Me Alone,” “The Low Spark” remains a high point in the bands extensively creative catalog of sounds.

Browse all 100 albums on sale this month for only $5 each.

Track Listing

1. Hidden Treasure
2. The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
3. Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
4. Rock ‘N’ Roll Stew
5. Many A Mile To Freedom
6. Rainmaker
7. Rock And Roll Stew Parts 1 & 2

Note – when you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.