VA - Traffic Sounds (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 x CDs)

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. (B)

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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

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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.

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