A Folkin Bunch Of Rockers

Starting off as a psychedelic band, Traffic dabbled into the ever expanding category of folk rock. Joining The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, etc they released the ever classic album John Barleycorn Must Die. The song John Barleycorn is an old English folk song that was in a collection of English folk songs by Cecil Sharpe in the early 1900s. There are many versions of the song and is translated in a wide array of languages. The song can be dated back to 1465. Here Traffic sings John Barleycorn with a great arrangement done very well by the band leader Steve Winwood. Other songs on this album were all written by Steve Winwood and drummer Jim Capaldi and are all written in the folk rock sound of the 60s.