Dave Mason & Jim Capaldi - The Live: 40,000 Headmen Tour

Little more than an authorized bootleg right down to its grainy cover and raw (but not unprofessional) sound, this captures the two Traffic founders on some dates from their three-month 1998 U.S. tour. Dave Mason receives the bulk of the attention, reprising five of his solo hits (four grabbed from his debut Alone Together disc) in reasonably spry but far-from-definitive versions. He's backed by Capaldi on drums and percussion -- who checks in with only one solo track, the snoozy "Love Will Keep Us Alive" -- and sturdy yet unspectacular hired hands bolstering the sound on keyboards and bass. Read More