Jim Capaldi Backing Tracks

Jim Capaldi Backing Tracks – Love Hurts …

Jim Capaldi was an English drummer, singer, and songwriter. His musical career spanned more than four decades. He co-founded the band Traffic in 1967. In 2004 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of Traffic’s original line-up.

Capaldi studied piano and voice with his father, a music teacher, and by his teens he was playing drums with his friends. At age 14 he founded the band the Sapphires and served as their lead vocalist. In 1963 he formed the band ‘the Hellions, with friends Dave Mason (guitar) and Gordon Jackson (rhythm guitar) while Capaldi himself switched to drums. After several line up and band name changes, Jim Capaldi eventually co-founded the group ‘Traffic’ with Steve Winwood.

After Traffic broke up in 1974, Capaldi pursued a solo career. His first album, ‘Short Cut Draw Blood’, was released in 1979. He continued to release albums throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including the critically acclaimed Fierce Heart in 1983.

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Capaldi was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.

Jim Capaldi collaborated and performed with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison and Cat Stevens.

As a solo artist he scored more than a half dozen chart hits in various countries, the most well-known being his cover of “Love Hurts”.

He died in 2005 at the age of 60.