When the Eagle Flies

Infobox Album
Name = When the Eagle Flies
Type = Album
Artist = Traffic


Released = 1974
Recorded = June - July 1974
Genre = Rock
Length = 39:45
Label = Island
Asylum/Island
Producer = Chris Blackwell
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:1r62mpe39f7o link]
*"Rolling Stone" (Not Rated) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/traffic/albums/album/286604/review/5941361/when_the_eagle_flies link] |
Last album = "On the Road"
1973
This album = "When the Eagle Flies"
1974
Next album = "Far From Home"
1994

"When the Eagle Flies" was the final album released by English rock band Traffic, in 1974, until their 1994 reunion "Far From Home". The album featured Jim Capaldi on drums, keyboards and vocals; Rosko Gee on bass guitar; Steve Winwood on guitar, keyboards, and vocals; and Chris Wood on flute and saxophone. "When the Eagle Flies" was the band's fourth consecutive studio album to reach the American Top Ten and have gold album status. Traffic toured to support the release, but at the conclusion of the tour Traffic disbanded in 1975.

Track listing

#"Something New" (Winwood/Capaldi) – 3:15
#"Dream Gerrard" (Winwood/Stanshall) – 11:03
#"Graveyard People" (Winwood/Capaldi) – 6:05
#"Walking in the Wind" (Winwood/Capaldi) – 6:48
#"Memories of a Rock N' Rolla" (Winwood/Capaldi) – 4:50
#"Love" (Winwood/Capaldi) – 3:20
#"When the Eagle Flies" (Winwood/Capaldi) – 4:24

Miscellanea

LP and pre-remaster CD issues of this album did not list the band member's names, so Rosko Gee's name did not appear on a Traffic album prior to 1991's "Smiling Phases" compilation.

The front cover's drawing of the four band members was based on a photograph of a prior, transitional lineup that also included Rebop Kwaku Baah. This lineup did not record any released material, but it appears in the photograph on the back cover of "Smiling Phases".