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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 songwriter and musician. I am proud to have been his writing partner on so many songs” - Steve Winwood
His bullish frame was exactly how he played and sounded on the drums. Fierce and deliberate, no turning back. He had a great, charging personality, but was so soft at heart – Yusuf Islam /Cat Stevens