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Album: Short Cut Draw Blood (digital only re-release) Label: Island Records Release Date: 26 Feb 2021 Short Cut Draw Blood – Jim Capaldi’s Defining 1975 Album Gets its Long-Awaited Worldwide Digital Release, via Island Records I remember going down to the cottage in Berkshire to jam with him. The arrival of Traffic’s songs and the imagery of Jim Capaldi’s lyrics drove forward and then ahead on a vast surge of beautiful hope and other worldliness” - Robert Plant “a great poet songwri...

  Article Contributed by BAM Music Marketing | Published on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 Jim Capaldi was a major figure on the British rock scene from the 1960s into the new millennium; achieving  stardom both as a founding member of Traffic and successful solo artist who collaborated with some of the most prestigious artists of his day. Whilst Capaldi was most recognized as Traffics drummer, he was also one of the groups principal songwriters alongside Steve Winwood, co-writing hits incl...