# The Best Traffic Guitar Solos

> The 15 best Traffic guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Dear Mr. Fantasy (1967), then Light Up or Leave Me Alone and Pearly Queen. Every video starts at the solo.

Canonical URL: <https://greatestsolos.com/list/traffic-guitar-solos/>

Traffic mixed psychedelia, jazz, soul and English folk, with multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood proving as expressive on guitar as on organ. His lyrical, blues-soaked solos, together with Dave Mason's contributions, stretched the band's songs into some of the most absorbing jams of the era.

Informed by: [Ultimate Classic Rock - Top 10 Traffic Songs](https://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-10-traffic-songs/), [Steve Hoffman Music Forums - Traffic: Winwood or Mason on guitar?](https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/traffic-winwood-or-mason-on-guitar.239409/), [Wikipedia - Traffic (band)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_(band))

1. [Dear Mr. Fantasy](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-dear-mr-fantasy/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1967
2. [Light Up or Leave Me Alone](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-light-up-or-leave-me-alone/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1971
3. [Pearly Queen](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-pearly-queen/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1968
4. [Medicated Goo](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-medicated-goo/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1969
5. [Rock & Roll Stew](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-rock-and-roll-stew/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1971
6. [Every Mother's Son](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-every-mother-s-son/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1970
7. [Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-shoot-out-at-the-fantasy-factory/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1973
8. [Heaven Is in Your Mind](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-heaven-is-in-your-mind/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1967
9. [Coloured Rain](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-coloured-rain/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1967
10. [Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-who-knows-what-tomorrow-may-bring/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1968
11. [You Can All Join In](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-you-can-all-join-in/) — Traffic · solo by Dave Mason · 1968
12. [Shanghai Noodle Factory](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-shanghai-noodle-factory/) — Traffic · solo by Dave Mason · 1969
13. [Roll Right Stones](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-roll-right-stones/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1973
14. [Walking in the Wind](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-walking-in-the-wind/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1974
15. [Here Comes a Man](https://greatestsolos.com/song/traffic-here-comes-a-man/) — Traffic · solo by Steve Winwood · 1994

---

GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)