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Herzstück ist das auf einem Traditional basierende akustische Titelstück, bei dem Woods Flöte Winwoods fast fragilen Gesang und die Gitarre regelrecht umflirrt und umgarnt. Daneben aber kommen die klassischen Traffic-Züge voll zum Tragen: Die Wurzeln im Blues und Soul, voll-sattes Rock-Feeling im Bauch und der Geist frei. So tänzelt der Opener "Glad" rockig-jazzig und instrumental daher, nimmt "Empty Pages" verhalten und dennoch dynamisch Fahrt auf und verweist auf Winwoods späteren Solo-Stil, suhlt sich "Every Mother's Son" im rockigen Blues-Metier à la Blind Faith und kann mit einem flexibel improvisierten Middle-Part aufwarten. Vier Bonustracks, bislang unveröffentlicht und zwei davon live ("Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring" und "Glad"), sowie der dynamischere Sound der Island-Remasters-Serie und ein aufschlussreiches Booklet adeln John Barleycorn Must Die vollends zum heißen Traffic-Tip! --Claus Böhm
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The most amazing thing about this album is that while you have the opening track "Glad," perhaps the best example of jazz influence in rock and roll, you also have the mournful folk ballade "John Barleycorn," with the voices of Winwood and Capaldi entwined over and around an acoustic guitar. You would swear these songs had to come from different albums because they really have nothing in common representing jazz and folk as they do. This time around the band takes the time to explore their songs, with four of the songs lasting longer than six minutes, which in 1970 was really considered pushing the envelope. It also signaled a new level of musical commitment for the group to artistic rather than commercial success, since these were the four longest songs they had recorded to date. The group might still be jamming, but at a higher level that before their last breakup because they are simply on the same wavelength at this point.
The other thing that strikes me about Traffic is that they really knew how to start a song, especially the awesome piano lick that begins "Glad," but also on "Stranger to Himself" and "John Barleycorn." The album made it to #5 on the Billboard album chart. "Empty Pages" was actually released as the obligatory single and although it is arguably the catchiest tune on the album and shows Winwood's virtuostity on the electric piano only made it to #64 on the singles chart. As for the question of whether "Freedom Rider" is really about Jim Morrison of the Doors, you can make of that what you will, but it is too late for me to make that a major association in my appreciation of the song. "Stranger to Himself" is actually a message song, but focusing on the lyrics is always problematic on this album given the attention that must be paid to the music. That is why "John Barleycorn Must Die" is arguably the greatest Sixties album not produced in the actual decade of the Sixties.
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