Smiling Phases
{{Infobox album
|name = Smiling Phases
|type = compilation
|artist = Traffic
|cover = Smiling Phases.jpg
|alt =
|released = 19 November 1991
|recorded = 1967–1974
|genre = Rock and roll, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion
|length = 2:02:15
|label = Island Records
|producer = {{flatlist|
- Jimmy Miller
- Chris Blackwell
- Steve Winwood
- Guy Stevens{{cite web| url=https://www.discogs.com/release/14476337-Traffic-Smiling-Phases |title=Traffic – Smiling Phases | website=Discogs| date=1991}}
}}
|prev_title = When the Eagle Flies
|prev_year = 1973
|next_title = Far from Home
|next_year = 1994
}}
Smiling Phases is a two-disc 1991 compilation album by British progressive & psychedelic rock band Traffic. The title is taken from a track from their 1967 debut, Mr. Fantasy, and is meant to represent the two distinct phases of the band. Disc one covers phase one, and disc two covers phase two.{{cite web| url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/smiling-phases-mw0000676523 |last=Ruhlmann |first=William |title=Smiling Phases| website=AllMusic}}
There are no new tracks on Smiling Phases, however, Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush, from the film of the same name, appears on a Traffic album for the first time.{{cite web| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZbgiAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA25&dq&=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhu-7zy5uNAxV5RTABHT2kJjAQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false |last=Sumrall |first=Harry |title=Classic Traffic| newspaper=Beaver County Times| page=26}} The extended version of Paper Sun is available in the US for the first time, as the single version was used for the American release of Mr. Fantasy.{{cite web| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFlPAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA22&dq=winwood+traffic+smiling+phases&article_id=5655,1527822&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjhu-7zy5uNAxV5RTABHT2kJjAQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q |author=R.S. Murthi |title=Traffic Gems | newspaper=New Straits Times| page=11}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
|headline = Disc one
|title1 = Paper Sun
|writer1 = Jim Capaldi / Steve Winwood
|length1 = 4:17
|title2 = Hole in My Shoe
|writer2 = Dave Mason
|length2 = 3:04
|title3 = Smiling Phases
|writer3 = Capaldi / Winwood / Chris Wood
|length3 = 2:41
|title4 = Heaven Is in Your Mind
|writer4 = Capaldi / Winwood / Wood
|length4 = 4:17
|title5 = Coloured Rain
|writer5 = Capaldi / Winwood / Wood
|length5 = 3:26
|title6 = No Face, No Name, No Number
|writer6 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length6 = 3:34
|title7 = Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
|writer7 = Capaldi / Mason / Winwood / Wood
|length7 = 2:39
|title8 = Dear Mr. Fantasy
|writer8 = Capaldi / Winwood / Wood
|length8 = 5:40
|title9 = You Can All Join In
|writer9 = Mason
|length9 = 3:36
|title10 = Feelin' Alright?
|writer10 = Mason
|length10 = 2:18
|title11 = Pearly Queen
|writer11 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length11 = 4:18
|title12 = (Roamin' Thru the Gloamin' With) 40,000 Headmen
|writer12 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length12 = 3:15
|title13 = Vagabond Virgin
|writer13 = Capaldi / Mason
|length13 = 5:17
|title14 = Shanghai Noodle Factory
|writer14 = Capaldi / Winwood / Larry Fallon / Jimmy Miller
|length14 = 3:30
|title15 = Withering Tree
|writer15 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length15 = 3:04
|title16 = Medicated Goo
|writer16 = Winwood / Miller
|length16 = 3:34
}}
{{Track listing
|headline = Disc two
|title1 = Glad
|writer1 = Winwood
|length1 = 6:59
|title2 = Freedom Rider
|writer2 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length2 = 2:44
|title3 = Empty Pages
|writer3 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length3 = 4:36
|title4 = John Barleycorn
|writer4 = Traditional / Winwood
|length4 = 6:21
|title5 = The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
|writer5 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length5 = 11:36
|title6 = Light Up or Leave Me Alone
|writer6 = Capaldi
|length6 = 4:46
|title7 = Rock and Roll Stew
|writer7 = Jim Gordon / Rick Grech
|length7 = 4:21
|title8 = Shoot out at the Fantasy Factory
|writer8 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length8 = 6:02
|title9 = Walking in the Wind
|writer9 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length9 = 6:52
|title10 = When the Eagle Flies
|writer10 = Capaldi / Winwood
|length10 = 4:23
|total_length = 2:02:15
}}
References
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