John Barleycorn – it’s a name that has for centuries appeared in lore and in song often with one caveat: he must die. While the 16th-century British folk narrative has ties to the region’s ancient ...

Steve Winwood had left the Spencer Davis Group and seen Traffic and Blind Faith break up before he turned 22. But after recording a few tracks for a solo album in which he played all of the ...

Steve Winwood had his solo career laid out in front of him, but he put what was best for the music in front of any ego. The result was a reunited Traffic and their 1970 classic album John Barleycorn ...

Traffic reinvented themselves repeatedly over the course of close to three decades together, but perhaps never more dramatically than with John Barleycorn Must Die. The deluxe version of the title ...

If you read my most recent column about Fall, the harvest and the English folksong John Barleycorn, below is a more detailed look at the ancient poem. John Barleycorn is an old English folksong that ...