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Roamin’ Thro’ the Gloamin with 40,000 Headmen (album title: Forty Thousand Headmen), written by Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi, was first recorded by Traffic in 1967 or 1968. It was initially released as B-side to the “No Face, No Name, No Number” single in 1968 and also appears on their second album Traffic. Blood, Sweat & Tears also recorded it on their 1970 album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3. The song is sung from the perspective of the unnamed protagonist, who is only hurt by the bullets of the eponymous headmen. It has been described as being “an evocation of a dream state”. The song has the rare feature of having circular lyrics, in the sense that the first verse can be seen as following the last verse chronologically. Dave Mason and Jim Capaldi’s 1998-99 “40,000... Read on...