Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
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Music CD Cover Artist: Traffic Edition: Music CD Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2001-02-27 Music Label: Island Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for John Barleycorn Must Die Album
Free Music Review: Flawed Reissue of a Classic
Hit: 4 Stars
This was probably Traffic's most consistently good recording, a half dozen songs, longer than the pop standard 3 minutes, but not over extended, as even Low Spark's title song might be considered. Fans of Phish or Dave Matthews Band would probably enjoy it for its funky grooves, Dead-like jamming, and boho perspective. Winwood's playing excells of course, but the pairing of his voice and Chris Wood's flute, particularly on the title track, is what make the sound unique. (Capaldi's more pedestrian voice grounds the mix.) Although the roots are British folk on that number, it fits well with the more R&B (at times jazzy, but not really jazz) influence on the other tracks.The negatives are relatively minor, but real. As noted elsewhere regarding the import, the flow of the album is broken by the fragment "I just want you to know," inserted midway through the CD (the end of "side 1?") and the end (of "side 2") is marred by the inclusion of "Sittin' Here Thinkin' Of My Love." (Ironically, the insert says the album "flows like a seamless whole"--not any more!) Both tracks sound a little half-baked. Their lyrics, to the extent there are any, are more inane than usual (not Winwood's department, but his delivery fails to rescue the pieces as one comes to expect) and there isn't much development musically of either piece. Better to have omitted them entirely from the reissue or to have set both off at the end of the CD with a substantial time lapse after "Every Mothers Son," for all but the completists to hit the stop button. The remastering sounds fine to my nonaudiophile ears. I would, however, like to have seen a little more info and a picture or two in the "booklet" which is really just two paragraphs.
In short, if you like Traffic (or think you might), you'll want to have this CD, but you might have hoped for a better package overall. Let's hope they don't mess too badly with "Low Spark."
ps: The single disk Traffic compilation has 4 of the 6 original tracks from this record, so you might skip this if you're on a budget (who isn't), but the other 2 original tracks here are at least as good if not better than all but the title track. Personally, I recommend getting this and "Low Spark," and leaving the compilation and (the more dated) other albums off your shopping list.