Oh you wanted more from Auz!? How about some more RockWiz? I think so . . . . . . cover some Crowded House? . . . . don’t mind if we do
It's Only Natural - Jenny Morris & Don McGlashan - 2009
Friday, October 16, 2026
. . . but wildest still . . . . . . Mo Mickey Baker | TWILIGHT ZONE
Mo’ Mickey
from the posting t’other day Mickey Baker "But Wildest" 2010
Kansas City Boogie Woogie Stomp
Roll ‘Em Sam
Rib Joint
Chicken Strut
Postmodern Jukebox ‘I Swear’ turns Country; why it's Western Swing time!!
Turning "I Swear" into a Western Swing classic with Eva Mikhailovna and Demi Remick!
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VA - Traffic Sounds (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs) | Butterboy
Traffic- Evening Blue
The main thrust of Butterboy’s thesis is contained within . . . . . here
VA - Traffic Sounds (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)
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Butterboy says:
SOUND OF TRAFFIC
VA - Traffic Sounds (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)
There are moments in music when everything slows down, not because the tempo drops, but because the musicians have stepped into a deeper room. A room where the air is warm, the groove breathes, and emotion becomes something you can hold in your hands. Traffic lived in that room. They didn’t visit it, they built it. And for those of us who respond to that atmosphere, that humid, analog, slow‑burn magic, their work becomes a compass. Traffic Sounds is built around that compass.
This anthology works because its emotions obey laws as real as gravity. Each Traffic anchor track creates its own emotional climate, humid groove, rhythmic fire, quiet melancholy, or bittersweet glow, and every song that follows is chosen because it naturally falls into that orbit. Nothing is forced. Nothing is stretched. The music gathers around each anchor the way warm air gathers around a flame, forming a world with its own temperature, its own atmosphere, and its own direction of movement. These songs breathe the same analog air, move with the same inward patience, and reveal themselves slowly, the way human truth always does. They are bound together not by genre, but by feel, the deep, human feel that Traffic mastered.
Across all four discs, the emotional physics remain constant, interplay instead of competition, warmth instead of sharpness, honesty instead of performance. Every track listens, leans, and lives inside the same slow‑burn universe. By allowing Traffic to appear only as the opening gravitational mass, the set creates a beautiful symmetry, Traffic defines the space, and every other artist inhabits it with respect and authenticity. The result is a seamless emotional landscape, one that feels alive, human, and quietly luminous. This is a curated environment, a place where the listener can step inside and experience the full spectrum of Traffic’s emotional gravity through the voices of many.
Seventy‑four artists, seventy‑four perspectives, all breathing the same air. Every track is a match to its anchor. Every selection carries the same emotional weight, the same sonic warmth, the same human truth.
If you’ve lived with Traffic, you already know the room I’m talking about. If you’re new to it, this anthology is your doorway. Either way, what you hold here is a faithful exploration of that world, a set built with care, intention, and respect for the music that inspired it.
Taken together, they form a single emotional map, a complete sonic universe built around the deepest qualities of Traffic’s music. Welcome to Traffic Sounds.
Take your time. Let it unfold. Let it breathe. Let it speak. (Butterboy)
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check the ilink (title header) for track listing of all four CDs
Steve Winwood - Night Train
Oh alrighty then . . .
Track lists
CD1
01 Traffic - Roll Right Stones 13:47 1973
02 Little feat - On Your Way Down (2023 Remaster) 5:33 1973
03 Boz Scaggs - Loan Me A Dime 13:04 1969
04 Allman Brothers Band - Dreams 7:19 1969
05 Van Morrison - Listen to the Lion 10:58 1972
06 Free - Heavy Load 5:23 1970
07 Manassas - Sugar Babe 4:19 1972
08 War - Four Cornered Room 8:35 1972
09 Blind Faith - Sea of Joy 5:22 1969
10 Dave Mason - Sad and Deep as You 3:36 1970
11 J.J. Cale - Durango 5:30 1971
12 Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry - Waiting for The Wind (Single A-Side) 3:30 1969
13 John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil 6:19 1973
14 Roy Buchanan - The Messiah Will Come Again 5:54 1971
15 Jim Capaldi - Eve 3:35 1972
16 David Crosby - Laughing 5:17 1971
17 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard it Through The Grapevine 11:05 1969
18 Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking 7:15 1971
19 Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto 6:54 1970
20 Terry Reid - Seed of Memory 5:23 1976
CD2
01 Traffic - Shoot Out at The Fantasy Factory 6:07 1973
02 Ten Years After - 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 7:37 1970
03 Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth II 4:11 1975
04 Pretty Things - Cries From The Midnight Circus 6:28 1970
05 Savoy Brown - Hellbound Train 9:02 1972
06 Golden Earring - The Vanilla Queen 9:16 1976
07 Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin' 3:30 1973
08 Steve Winwood - Night Train 7:51 1980
09 Can - Future Days 9:32 1973
10 Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride 5:55 1971
11 Funkadelic - Nappy Dugout 4:37 1973
12 Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (Part 2) 5:39 1969
13 Colosseum - Lost Angeles 5:30 1971
14 Dr John - Right Place Wrong Time 2:53 1973
15 Babe Ruth - Wells Fargo 6:16 1972
16 Joe Walsh - Turn to Stone 3:48 1972
17 Santana - Waves Within 3:53 1972
18 Meters - Cissy Strut 3:01 1969
19 Canned Heat - Refried Boogie 33:41 1968
20 Mott The Hoople - Sea Diver 2:55 1971
CD3
01 Traffic - (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired 7:33 1973
02 Leon Russell - A Song for You 4:08 1970
03 George Harrison - Beware of Darkness 3:22 1970
04 Nick Drake - River Man 4:15 1969
05 Judee Sill - The Kiss 4:36 1971
06 Tim Hardin - It'll Never happen Again 2:33 1966
07 Pat Kilroy - Light of Day 3:00 1968
08 Roy Harper - Another Day 3:00 1970
09 Richard Thompson - Dimming of the Day 3:51 1975
10 David Blue - These 23 Days in September 5:29 1968
11 Alan Trajan - One Tends to Get Bitter Now and Again 2:18 1969
12 Michael Chapman - Postcards of Scarborough 5:19 1970
13 Tim Buckley - Once I Was 3:15 1967
14 Mickey Newbury - Heaven Help The Child 4:13 1973
15 Ron Elliott - The Candlestick Maker Suite, Dark Into Dawn, Questions 14:53 1969
16 Hollies - Down River 4:10 1972
17 Hopewell - With Tomorrow 3:25 2006
18 Neneh Cherry - Trouble Man 3:57 1996
19 Jackson Browne - Song for Adam 5:13 1972
20 Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home 3:16 1969
CD4
01 Traffic - Evening Blue 5:19 1973
02 Pink Floyd - Us and Them 7:51 1973
03 King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind 6:06 1969
04 Jellybread - Evening 7:15 1970
05 Steve Winwood - Spanish Dancer 5:59 1980
06 David Sylvian - Orpheus 4:51 1987
07 Talk Talk - The Rainbow 8:02 1988
08 Poco - Magnolia 6:19 1971
09 Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms 7:00 1981
10 Bruce Springsteen - Racing in the Street 6:55 1978
11 Roxy Music - Avalon 4:14 1982
12 Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes 4:31 1968
13 Barclay James Harvest - Mockingbird 6:38 1971
14 Mark Lanegan - The River Rise 4:29 1994
15 Radiohead - Pyramid Song 4:48 2001
16 Wilco - Reservations 7:22 2002
17 Van Morrison - Country Fair 5:40 1974
18 The War on Drugs - Thinking of a Place 11:10 2017
19 Mark-Almond - The City 8:16 1971
20 Camel - A Song Within A Song 7:13 1975
74 artists with 74 different takes on what Butterboy is talking about . . . . .
Traffic - You Can All Join In
James Rigby - Tyger Belle
Another beauty for a Friday from our James Rigby . . . .
TYGER BELLE - BY JAMES RIGBY
TUNED - DADDAD
Jane Fallon news . . . . . and some guy called Ricky Gervais
and Jane has just announced she is cancer free after her battles with the disease
HOORAH!
we like her!
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