St. Louis, Kiel Auditorium, 31 Jan 1973
1 Feb 1973
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Traffic, English Rock Band, Plays At Kiel Auditorium
Singer-guitarist John Martyn, a Scot, opened the show and occupied the stage by himself for the first 30 minutes.
USA
An Island Sampler
1 Feb 1973
Capitol Records
The Bottom Line:
Rare US support sampler for Solid Air tour
John has two tracks on this item; I'd Rather Be The Devil is shortened like the other long tracks (as indicated after the album titles).
"NOT FOR SALE"
"island records | available from capitol records"
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Carriers:
Vinyl: Island SPRO-6619 | SPRO-6620
Solid Air advert
27 Jan 1973
Cash Box
Cash Box was a US based weekly magazine for the music industry trade publishing record charts. This two page advert was to support sales during the stadium tour with Traffic and Free.
The text is clearly written for shop owners.
Part of the campaign was also a special promo album, 'An Island Sampler', with ten sample tracks of the artists mentioned. It has two catalogue numbers, one for each side: SPRO-6619 and SPRO-6620.
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Credits:
Anonymous
Long Beach, Arena, 23 Jan 1973
25 Jan 1973
Los Angeles Times
Traffic Carries On at Long Beach Arena
Although the delicacy that so beautifully counterbalances the hard edges of its music was totally lost in the Long Beach Arena sound system,
Bless The Weather – Island SW 9311
1 Jan 1972
Billboard
What a quietly enjoyable album this is!
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Bless The Weather
Non-Dairy Creamer
1 Feb 1971
Warner Bros
The Bottom Line:
Interesting approach to marketing from the States
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Tracks:
Carriers:
Vinyl: Warner Bros. PRO 443
Stormbringer! – Warner WS 1854
16 May 1970
Cash Box
Each of these artists has made a few records on their own, but their coming together has given birth to one of the more beautiful acoustic-style albums of the season.
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Stormbringer!
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