Songs With Flutes

Songs with flutes are special. Many are by Traffic or Jethro Tull, few were made after 1970. The flute is, in the context of rock / pop / dance, a jazz instrument, and dropped out when the influence of jazz was no longer felt in rock music. All these songs are slightly wistful, elegiac, outside, and that’s what the flute did.

The uber-song with flute is of course

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followed by anything by Traffic, of which I offer this especially stoned example

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This is so famous that the flute itself is in some kind of Hall of Fame museum

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And if you haven’t discovered After Bathing At Baxters, listen to this and then You Tube the rest

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and while we’re doing San Francisco psychedelia, let’s throw in

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and some good solid stuff

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