Last Exit (1969) - Traffic

Featuring »

Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason, Dave Mason, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood

Tracklisting »

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Guest Appearances »

Jim Capaldi, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, Chris Wood

Released »

1969-05

Format »

Domestic Vinyl/CD Album

Other Appearances »

Andy Johns (Engineer), Glyn Johns (Engineer), Eddie Kramer (Engineer), Leslie Bricusse (Songwriter), Jim Capaldi (Songwriter), Jim Capaldi (Songwriter), Larry Fallon (Songwriter), Dave Mason (Songwriter), Dave Mason (Songwriter), Jimmy Miller (Songwriter), Anthony Newley (Songwriter), Don Robey (Deadric Malone) (Songwriter), Joseph Wade Scott (Songwriter), Steve Winwood (Songwriter), Steve Winwood (Songwriter), Chris Wood (Songwriter), Chris Wood (Songwriter), Richard/Dick Polak (Photography), Ray Ross (Photography), Francine Winham (Photography), Mike Sida (Art Direction), Guy Stevens (Art Direction), Jimmy Miller (Produced By), Vartan (Reissue Art Direction), Smay Vision (Reissue Design), Jeff Willens (Mastered By), Alan Leeming (Analog To Digital Transfers By), Keiron McGarry (Analog To Digital Transfers By), Gary Moore (Analog To Digital Transfers By), Bill Levenson (Reissue Supervised By), Jane Hitchin (Tape Research By), David Lascelles (Tape Research By), Zoe Roberts (Tape Research By), Margaret Goldfarb (Reissue Production Coordinator)

Record Label »

Island/United Artists

Catalogue Number »

ILPS 9097 (Island Original LP) UAS-6702 (United Artists Original LP) 422-842787-1 ('88 LP) 422-842787-4 (Cassette)

Running Time »

34:28

Liner Notes »

2001 CD Reissue Notes: Mastered at Universal Mastering Studios - East. Analog to digital transfers at Universal Digital Mastering Studios, London. Tape research at Universal Tape Library, London. (C) 2001 Universal-Island Records Ltd. Manufactured by The Island Def Jam Music Group Worldwide Plaza 825 8th Avenue New York, NY 10019 USA A Universal Music Company Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Inc. Warning: All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. 7 3

Reviews »

Add your review here. Scraping of what was left over Review written by John Fitzgerald, March 6th, 2005 It seems clear that Island wanted to get another album of Traffic material out to the world (during the time that Traffic had disbanded while Steve Winwood went of to join Blind Faith) as "Last exit" is short on running time, they used a Mason solo track from a one off single he had done with the label (though apparently using Traffic as the backing band on side A of the single which is the same recording here) in "Just for you" and what they had left was not the greatest in quality though its not horrible, it just doesn't match up to their best work and anyone hearing this album ahead of any other Traffic material may think they are not a good band but it would simply just be a case of not hearing a good representation of the band on the whole. Though "Just for you" is a good galloping strummer, "Shanghai noodle factory" is a fair flute & organ featured shuffle which reminds one too much of "Who knows what tomorrow may bring" from the 1968 selftitled Traffic album. Perhaps this may have been the same song in it's original form then reworked to the above mentioned selftitled 1968 album track? Anyways, "Somethings got a hold of my toe" is a 2 minute rocking guitar led instrumental which sounds OK but is most obviously lacking in direction (though "jams" don't need direction to work, this track sounds like it's looking for a direction it never finds which is the difference). "Withering tree" is often thought of as a highlight from this album but I must remain in the minority as frankly, I find it to be swaying waltz like drivel. "Medicated goo" is not a bad stomp but after hearing the much superior live rendition on "Welcome to the canteen", this version sounds rather funk-less. Side two of the album consists of two extended live tracks. By all accounts these were recorded during a time when Mason had left the band which left Traffic as a trio and though the beginning of "Feelin' good" starts interestingly enough with Wood's flute flourishes and Winwood "shamming" on the bass lines, when it gets to the louder sections (and same could be said for the organ/sax led fast stroll of "Blind man"), Wood's sax and Steve's organ scramble desperately to cover for the lack of other instrumentation and therefore the obvious gaping hole which formed on Mason's departure shows it's wounds here, though they had fared well on their "John Barleycorn" album in the studio in this trio form, even they knew they had to expand the band when touring next but that's another story for another day. I often think Island may have been better off here if they had also included the B side to Mason's Island single ("Little woman", though since Family was his backing band on that track, I can understand the lack of using this track) and the remaining non album Traffic tracks ("Smiling phases", "Paper sun", "Hole in my shoe", "Feelin' alright (Take 1)" (which showed up on DM's "Scrapbook" compilation double album on Island in 1972) & the two "Here we go round the mulberry bush" soundtrack unique tracks) to attempt to strengthen their case but I guess they felt it better to stick to strictly previously unreleased material here and use roughly half of those above mentioned tracks to spread over to the "Best of Traffic" album released by Island the same year.

Comments »

'90 CD Reissue catalog #: 422-842787-2 2001 CD Reissue catalog #: 314 548 540-2

Last Modified »

2011-04-17

Tracklisting »

Discography entry submitted by Jeff Kenney.