Artist: JIM CAPALDI [TRAFFIC]
Album: THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS EXPANDED EDIT. (CD O-CARD)

Release date: 1980/ 2012
Media type: CD

Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the first ever CD edition of the wonderful 1980 album by JIM CAPALDI, "THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS”. Recorded after a hiatus which saw Jim living in Brazil, the album featured classic tracks such as ‘MAN WITH NO COUNTRY’, the album’s title track, a fabulous re-interpretation of the classic TRAFFIC track ‘THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS’ and ‘GOING HOME’, co-written with STEVE WINWOOD. Jim engaged the services of such musicians as MEL COLLINS (saxes & flute), PETE BONAS (guitar & bass) and CHRIS PARREN (keyboards) for the sessions and the album was a welcome return to form. This Esoteric Recordings reissue has been remastered from the original master tapes and includes seven bonus tracks, including six previously unreleased recordings. Of these, three tracks are demos recorded in Brazil in 1979. The reissue includes a booklet that fully restores all original album artwork and features a new essay.    

TRACKLIST:

1. HOLD ON TO YOUR LOVE
2. TAKE ME HOW YOU FIND ME GIRL
3. SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
4. EVERY MAN MUST MARCH TO THE BEAT OF HIS OWN DRUM
5. TONIGHT
6. THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS
7. FORTUNE AND FAME
8. MAN WITH NO COUNTRY
9. GOING HOME

BONUS TRACKS:

10. BATHROOM JANE 
11. SUMMERTIME
12. I WAS MEANT FOR YOU
13. ROWENA
14. KISS
15. THE PALACE OF FUN
16. IT’S IN YOUR EYES