The Journey - Music

Singer Guitarist And Drummer Gordon Jackson Released A Rare Album For The Marmalade Label In 1969 Thinking Back That Bore Much Similarity To Records Of The Era By Traffic And More Distantly Family . The Resemblance Wasn't Casual As Several Members Of Traffic And Family Helped Out On The Record Alongside Other Notables Like Julie Driscoll And Luther Grosvenor Of Spooky Tooth Traffic 's Dave Mason In Fact Was The Producer.
Thinking Back Had The Same Sort Of Loose Mixture Of Psychedelic Rock With Jazz Folk And Bits Of Soul And World Music That Characterized Some Of Traffic 's Work. The Material Wasn't As Strong Or Focused As Traffic 's Or Family 's But It Had A Nice Introspective Groove With Haunting Minor-Keyed Melodies. Prior To The Album Jackson Had Been Intimately Connected With Musicians In Bands That Evolved Into Traffic Family And Spooky Tooth Although He Never Attained Anything Near The Same Recognition As Those Groups In His Brief Solo Career. He'd Been In The Hellions The Birmingham Group Also Including Mason Grosvenor And Future Traffic Percussionist Jim Capaldi Who Made Some Flop Singles For Piccadilly In The Mid-1960s. After The Hellions Broke Up Jackson Played In Deep Feeling With Capaldi Grosvenor And Future Family Multi-Instrumentalist Poli Palmer . Deep Feeling Unfortunately Never Released Anything Although An Excellent Early Psychedelic Track They Recorded "Pretty Colours " Did Eventually Get Released On Grosvenor 's Floodgates Anthology . Jackson Was An Odd Man Out Though When Mason And Capaldi Helped Form Traffic And Little Was Heard From Him After The 1960s Despite The Promise Of Thinking Back . read less