Word: grech
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What we have here is a conscious mixture of the less than definable music Traffic's made since 1967--elements of psychedelia, sixties rock, some rhythm and blues, some jazz--and the distinctive southern R 'n' B played in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Traffic's last rhythm section, bassist Ric Grech and Jim Gordon on drums, were rockers, pure and simple, particularly Gordon's white rock/gospel/white R 'n' B background. (He was with the originators of white gospel, Delaney and Bonnie, as well as with Cocker, Leon Russell, and Derek's Dominos). New members Roger Hawkins and David Hood, on drums...
Family has been together since 1967, but remained relatively unknown until this year. Ric Grech and Jim King left the group last summer, and Grech went on to play bass for a widely publicized, but short-lived coalition known as Blind Faith. The foundation of the group-singer Roger Chapman and guitarist John Whitney-remained, however, and they created a new Family. They eliminated Grech's cello and King's oft-times superfluous saxophone, and supplanted them with vibes and an electric flute...