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Poll Question: Which one do you think is the best?
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    Posted: May 19 2020 at 14:51
Visited a local record store today, saw a copy of Canteen and got into a conversation with the employee on duty about Traffic and their live albums. We both agreed on On the Road being the better record but I would like to get the progarchive opinion on this subject as well. To be honest I had no idea "Last Great Traffic Jam" was a thing until I came home and started doing research for this so I'm curious to see how it does compared to the albums I've already heard. 
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Welcome to the Canteen
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Canteen was the only one I was aware about. Don't know the other two so obviously can't vote.
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all three are quite excellent IMHO (so is the Santa Monica film, BTW)

Surprisingly The Last Great Teaffic Jam is quite pleasant. Apparently they had given the youth a good lesson on how to rock it out in Woodstock 94 (since they'd missed the first one) the year before

Difficult to give a preference to one of them, but I always really liked OTR.
Maybe one day, Canteen will be extended to a second disc.
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"Welcome to the Canteen" is the only one with the entire original band.  (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason).
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Welcome To The Canteen 
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Canteen.
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As somebody who really enjoys Steve Windood's music, I can honestly say I like all three albums very much, and don't have a preference between them. 
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Even though not a fully ‘live’ album, side 2 of Last Exit is a blast - Winwood’s Hammond is blaring just the way I like it !!

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^Me too!
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None of them.  I loved the 1st 3 Traffic albums.  Liked the 4th.  And then they lost my interest.
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Also, Steve Winwood put out an excellent double live album a couple of years ago. Excellent renditions of Traffic & solo hits.

Voted for On the Road over Canteen. Haven’t heard the other one.
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interesting in that the two other live performances out there of Traffic that haven't made it to albums yet would top any of the choices here if they were...

of the two.. I'll go for the aborted live Nov 70' Fillmore East album over the 72' Santa Monica vid....that ended up largely coming out as bonus tracks on a Barleycorn CD reissue..

of the choices..  On the Road.. for it did have some of the late period Traffic greats on it.


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