| Far from Home | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Traffic |
| Cover: | Trafficfarfromhomecover.jpg |
| Released: | 9 May 1994 |
| Recorded: | 1974 & 1994 Woodstock, Kilcoole, near Dublin, Eire |
| Genre: | Progressive rock[1] |
| Length: | 62:19 |
| Label: | Virgin |
| Producer: | Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi |
| Prev Title: | When the Eagle Flies |
| Prev Year: | 1974 |
| Next Title: | The Last Great Traffic Jam |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
Far from Home is the eighth and final studio album by the rock band Traffic. The project began as a revival of the writing collaboration between Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, but soon blossomed into the first Traffic project since 1974.
The album was recorded in Woodstock, Kilcoole near Dublin, Ireland and mixed at the Chateau Miraval in Correns, southern France. Though the subsequent tour would feature a full band, this album features Winwood playing all of the instruments and singing all the vocals, with the exception of Capaldi's drums and backing vocals, Davy Spillane's Uilleann pipes on "Holy Ground", and recording engineer Mick Dolan's rhythm guitar on "Nowhere Is Their Freedom" and programming on the Akai S1000.
The song "State of Grace" was intended to be a Jim Capaldi solo tune, but when the Traffic project took shape, Winwood and Capaldi decided to use it for Far from Home instead.[2]
Far from Home was released on 9 May 1994. The album reached number 29 in the UK Albums Chart, where it remained for four weeks, making it by far Traffic's most commercially successful album in their home country since John Barleycorn Must Die.[3] In Germany, it scored two minor hits ("Here Comes a Man" and "Some Kinda Woman")[4] and reached number 22 in the album charts.[5] It also managed to reach number 33 in the USA Billboard chart.[6]
The 3D-rendered cover design shows a stick-figure hovering above a checkerboard patterned floor playing a flute. The stick-figure's head is aligned in the middle of the Traffic logo, which is seen in a dark blue-gradient background. The back sleeve for the CD version of the album features a blurry photograph of Winwood and Capaldi on a beach. Several blurry photos of Winwood and Capaldi appear inside the inner sleeve of the booklet.
All songs written by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi unless otherwise indicated.
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