John Barleycorn Must Die
by Traffic
- Type: Album
- Released: 31 July 1970
- Label: Island
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:32:43
- Community rating: 3.99/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Originally intended as Steve Winwood's solo debut, the project morphed into a triumphant reunion of the beloved British ensemble. 'John Barleycorn Must Die' is a wonderfully warm, fiercely eclectic progressive rock classic, balancing beautifully pastoral English folklore with intensely rhythmic, highly melodic jazz-rock improvisations.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, improvisation, folklore, progressive, jam
Tracklist
- Glad (6:59)
- Freedom Rider (5:25)
- Empty Pages (4:34)
- Stranger To Himself (3:52)
- John Barleycorn (Must Die) (6:22)
- Every Mother's Son (7:05)
- Stranger To Himself - Alternative Mix (4:08)
- John Barleycorn (Must Die) - First Version (5:05)
- Every Mother's Son - Alternative Mix (7:03)
- Intro (1:44)
- Medicated Goo - Live (4:17)
- Empty Pages - Live (4:47)
- 40,000 Headmen - Live (4:30)
- Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring - Live (5:16)
- Every Mother's Son - Live (6:59)
- Glad / Freedom Rider - Live (14:29)
Credits
- Traffic - Member, primary artist
- Mike Sida - design [album]
- Andy Johns - engineer
- Brian Humphries - engineer
- Lee Hulko - lacquer cut by
- Richard Polak - photography by
- Chris Blackwell - producer
- Steve Winwood - producer, organ, piano, percussion, written-by, organ, piano, vocals, percussion, organ, bass guitar, electric piano, vocals, vocals, instruments [all], acoustic guitar, piano, vocals, arranged by, instruments [all other], acoustic guitar bass guitar electric piano guitar organ percussion piano, vocal
- Jim Capaldi - drums, percussion, written-by, vocals, tambourine, vocals, membranophone percussion tambourine, vocal
- Chris Wood - saxophone, flute, saxophone [electric], percussion, organ, flute, percussion, flute organ percussion saxophone winds instrument
- Guy Stevens - producer
- Traditional - written-by