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Steve has a perfect voice for folk, excellent acoustic guitar, and a hell of a keyboard player. He had been giving us music since he was 16.
May he continue for many more years.
Actually, Steve Winwood started doing music when he was a pre teen. Here is something he was doing at around age 15.
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Steve Winwood is a brilliant musician.
Winwood is a musical genius, in all his "incarnations"!
John Barleycorn is the Olde English reference to barley grown in fields to make the mash for their brandy. This is a great album all around.
Yes, more Traffic. More of this album and also the extraordinary Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys!
Justin has already review that tune a year ago. But excellent choice.
m so proud t be 68 and have lived through the 60's thru to today ! Traffic- John Barleycorn ...GREAT !
The first time I heard this song was in concert at the Fillmore East in June 1970. Great song, great album, great concert.
You do something fantastic that 98% of the reaction YTubers doesn't do: You allow the music to be heard without talking over it or stopping it. Thank you so much. Nice review/reaction.
Thank you :)
Epic. Saw them live, and they started the song with Steve alone on stage and lit each of the other players as they joined. Very cool live.
I've been waiting forever for you to do John Barleycorn. I didn't realize it way back when, but it was my first exposure to prog-type music. I was mesmerized, and had to stop my then-boyfriend from turning the station. The story is actually an old English folk-tale. (How much music I first heard riding in a boyfriend's car!)
It's folk music not prog.
@@heliotropezzz333 Folk influence Prog in so many ways
@@highpath4776 I agree. When I think of prog though I think of Yes or Pink Floyd or Emerson Lake and Palmer.
@@heliotropezzz333 Listen to Bruce Cockburn's "Badlands Flashback" for folk prog. edited because going back to listen, it may be more folk jazz.
A great,and mellow rendition of an archaic classic. Less 'hey nonny nonny' than Spans version, this is simplicity itself, and all the better for it, imho. And that's no disrespect to Spans version, just a preference thang.
I've seen a video of Steve Winwood singing this by himself with just his guitar and it still sounds great. In fact I think it was my favourite version. Barley is a crop. It's not a synonym for hops, but both barley and hops are used in beer.
Indeed, in fact specific varieties of barley are preferred for malting and they need to be grown in certain conditions to produced the low protein barley that makes the best beer. This can be relatively expensive. I suspect that is why a lot of mass market beers use rice as well as barley (and who knows what else) to produce their product.
To be clear, this song isn't about beer, it's about whiskey!
@@erikkaye1114 This is what the internet has to say. 'John Barleycorn " is an English and Scottish folk song listed as number 164 in the Roud Folk Song Index. John Barleycorn, the eponymous protagonist, is a personification of barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it: beer and whisky.'
@@maruad7577 Brewers also use hops to make beer.
@@heliotropezzz333 I know. I also grow hops on my back fence. They die off in the fall and provide places for sparrows to hide in the winter.
Well, there's also Jethro Tull version off their album A Little Light Music.
Beautiful storytelling
Great song, Great album, GREAT band. criminally underrated.
Oh man, I was listening to this whole album today. The whole album is great.
Knowing you're a fan of Jethro Tull, you might enjoy checking out their version of this song off their A Little Light Music album. They give it a little bit of bite
I agree...
Glad was a big song of this disc. Great album!!!
Great album. This is probably the most well-known version of “John Barleycorn” and for me the standard bearer. The ominous, minor-key feel fits the lyrics better (actually, kind of like Genesis’ “Twilight Alehouse,” no?) than the rather cheerful, major-key feel of Steeleye Span’s version.
On hearing this now, it reminds me of The Incredible String Band-hope you get to The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter one day-Winwood’s voice sounds like ISB’s Mike Heron.
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is a great LP.
@@jeffmartin1026 Agreed but they made may good records. I particularly like "Liquid Aerobat as Regards the Air" and "Hard Rope and Silken Twine".
Stevie is great! I'm now going to listen to 'I Can't Find My Way Home' from the Blind Faith album, it never fails to impress.
One of thee masterworks! Alltime.
This is one of the greatest flute players that ever lived, Chris Wood.
John Renbourn of Pentangle put together his own traditional vocal ensemble called the John Renbourn group and they covered this song on their album 'A Maid in Bedlam.' If you have a fondness for traditional English folk tunes, that album is spectacular, in my opinion. But that said, I love the Traffic version.
Good suggestion. I also like the John Renbourn Group album “The Enchanted Garden.” Well worth checking out
@@Katehowe3010 agreed!
Love Traffic. Always wished we got more from them, but totally grateful for what we got. Winwood was a very special talent. Totally recommend seeing him if you ever get the chance.
I saw Steve Winwood twice live as the opening act for Tom Petty. Amazing musican. Cheers!
Yep, a song about making beer.. if you like folk, Fairport Convention - Meet on the Ledge, Who Knows Where The Time Goes, etc. Richard Thompson : Beeswing, When I Get To The Border, End of The Rainbow, A Heart Needs a Home... so many stunning songs Check out early Steve Winwood pre- Traffic, singing with The Spencer Davis Group: Keep On Running, etc. You will be amazed
The song represents the growing, harvesting and processing of the Barley crop.
Welcome To the Canteen. Hop right up, have a little brew. Sit and watch high-heeled boys, put on a little 'shoe', a really big 'shoe'! You must stay and watch the boys play, You're blocked in by Traffic anyway. Moo, have a great day-Peace.
If you want to hear a great jazz/rock song listen to Glad from this album. Should be heard with Freedom Rider, which it blends into. The live version from Woodstock 94 is killer.
Steve is a musical genius. 👌🏼
Hops is just the flavouring, used to give the beer a clean taste. Malted barley is traditionally the grain used to make beer in Europe and North America though rice and other things are now used to reduce costs and lighten the taste. The Reinheitsgebot was introduced in Bavaria in 1516 to regulate beer production and it decrees only water, barley and hops (yeast was added later) can be used to make beer.
Great reaction/review of a classic song.
See such places as Farnham Maltings (now a music/arts venue but I think In the south of england one proper malting house (barn?) remains.
@@highpath4776 Makes sense. Concentration of ownership of breweries means they probably own the malting houses they use (I am just assuming). There used to be at least two malting houses in my home city but there is still one which surprises me as I don't think there are any major breweries left here. The bigger breweries were bought out by two major players and then closed. All that are left are mircos.
I have recently come across this album and listened to it while at work - I couldn't really pay much attention to what I was hearing, but upon starting the title track I knew I had to come back to the whole album in my free time. Glad I did! Thanks for sharing your view on the song.
On another note - in one of your earlier reactions you mentioned that you haven't really had a chance to listen to Bob Dylan, I think you definately should give him a try if you enjoy good storytelling in a song. Beside his early works in 60s and early 70s I would strongly recommend starting with Hurricane or Changing of the Guards. The latter being my personal faviourite and probably one of his most underrated gems.
IIRC Dylan gets blocked a lot which makes him less attractive to music reactors.
I thought it was gonna start rocking like Dancing With the Moonlit Knight but they kept it in that folksy pocket perfectly. And that flute, zoiks 😳
A favourite track from an all time favourite album. The song's folk vibe is a unicum, the other tracks being essentially jazz/rock/blues.
I love that triangle note, it's only played twice.
Chris Woods on the flute and saxophone with Traffic
As I understand it for me personally the signature sound of the band! When the band finished it broke him !!!!
Just tragic,!!!...
A good British folk band is 'Magpie Lane'. They have done this song and many others similar in a version which you can imagine being played in the 1800s in some sort of British bar or tavern. I recommend the album 'British country songs and dances' from 1994. If you choose to do a review on this album, I recommend listening to this track and a few others such as: Oxford City, The Painful Plough or any that you like yourself. I hope this recommendation is considered as it is a great example of what historic folk is. ( btw the album is available on Spotify.)
Magpie Lane are a great English band in a more traditional style - with lots of varied instrumentation.
The album with John Barleycorn is called 'The Oxford Ramble - Songs and tunes of Oxfordshire'.
'Speed the Plough - Songs and tunes of rural England' is another cracker as is 'Jack-in-the-Green'.
Thanks for your input on the music that helped so many expand
Good morning Justin. Try Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. Excellent song!
I think Justin did it a year, year and a half or so ago - was so-so with some of it _ if I remember, he thought the solo portions went on too long. That said, it would be interesting for him to revisit some of his initial songs - his prog ears have grown much.
The first two tracks of this album are a must, Justin. The whole album is good, but do yourself and us a favor and do "Glad"/"Freedom Rider."
JP...you gotta do the entire album. Again, another Traffic album that is a MUST HAVE in one's collection. You will take this album out and chill with a beer of the same for many years to come.
Just as it sounded in 1133.
Good morrow, Justin. Dave from Old England. And So It Was That Later, As The Miller Told His Tale... What is so great about this song is that Traffic are not a folk band but their performance here is off the scale. John Barleycorn is my favourite album of theirs, but much of it is the jazzier end of rock. Steve is a truly remarkable singer and multi-instrumentalist - he's played with the likes of Clapton and Hendrix, as well as on Talk Talk's Colour of Spring. The raw soul in his voice on the 60s Spencer Davis hits like Keep On Running was staggering given that he was about 16 at the time.
Steve Winwood is a prolific musician. I have experienced him in Traffic, Blind Faith, and on the Stomu Yamashta project Go. My favorite Winwood is probably in Go, which he did with Stomu Yamashta, an excellent composer and percussionist, and Al Di Meola, an excellent jazz fusion guitarist. Justin you should check out Go, it is right up your alley. It is the most unique prog rock/ jazz fusion/ electric pop from the 70s.
For me, this album's highlight is the first two tracks. "Glad" & "Freedom Rider". In fact they became so linked that when Traffic reunited & toured decades later, they played them that way...back to back with no break, as heard on the album. th-cam.com/video/doXXcTNUx8o/w-d-xo.html
Luv this track and album. Traffic is a great band. It just makes you feel good,
Superb album.
Each song on this album can be reacted....it's that good!
You could go for a hat-trick with Jethro Tull's version.
The best one. True medieval spirit
Great song on a great album by a great group. A friend of mine told me about this album around 1972-3 ish. It opened new musical worlds for a then 15 year old. Empty Pages is my favorite.
I knew you’d like this. Soooo long since I’ve heard this. Thanks for listening and sharing these guys. I’ve held back listening to Brian Augers Oblivion Express for about a year hoping you’ll break into them also. “Straight Ahead “ album is one you’ll love start to finish. Start on side with Straight Ahead, Change, and Forever You’ll Stay in my Heart
OMG are you reading my mind? I just listened to this on vinyl.(hmmm, this video was recorded before I did that, I'm reading your mind?) This whole album is amazing.
We're in each others minds, reading through the library :D
You can tell the difference with this and Tull's folk/rock material. There's always a sense of humor with Tull, like Ian is letting you in on the joke. There's a mood for both styles.
Steve Winwood is an amazing musician, he was recording on did great songs when he was 16!
I must be one of the people that requested this, love it, it's my favorite track by them. Steve Winwood is one of those rare natural musicians than can play any instrument he finds, just give him 30 minutes alone with it. McCartney is another, so was Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. Winwood record whole albums by himself.
The somber tone of this one really makes it linger longer after the music has stopped. The metaphor is indeed brutal and barbarous. It was probably written before we had daily newspapers to bring us current events, they had troubadours to pick up and repeat stories in music and rhyme. A different age.
Really enjoyed. Thanks again
my favourite ballad
Excellent...almost a Jethro Tull vibe here( JT had a few songs like this, acoustic guitar/flute dominant)... Winwood has a timeless, earthy voice, always worth a listen
I’ve been listening to this song since it’s release (51 years) and I loved seeing you chuckling in appreciation of the macabre, dark humor in the lyrics. Do you know the work of Edward Gorey?
For its musicality, I highly recommend Pentangle’s “Once I Had a Sweetheart”. Not your average English traditional sitar with glockenspiel perfect for whirling around like a slow Dervish in your living room rag. John Renbourn and Bert Jansch haunt my memories.
I’ve subscribed and am glad to have found you here.
The whole John Barleycorn Must Die album is great. Kickback, smoke a bowl and enjoy
JP, barley is what beer is made of. Malt is sprouting barley corn. Hops is a flower used to give the bitter taste to beer. See now where the title comes from? ;-)
Yup! 😁
Traffic adds a bit of mystery to the music in this version. I hear a bit of piano in the background, but it's downplayed quite a bit, just a whispy chord here and there.
"Glad" and "Freedom Rider" show more of Traffic's flowing style.
Hey JP ! A classic album from start to finish .Very folk / jazz influenced I think you'll love it .They have so many fantastic classic LPs . Steve W . & Jim Capaldi also have some great solo albums to check out sometime . I was able to see there last reunion tour before J . Capaldi passed away & was lucky enough to get S. Winwood & J . Capaldi to autograph there last Traffic CD for me . 😎👍
Very Nice Gene!
Great Album!..Great band!..Steve does a fireside acoustic solo of this that's really great..At the same sitting he also does Blind Faith's, "Can't find My Way Home"..I think you'd really enjoy them both...Also check him out when he was 15, doing an old 1920's tune called, "Nobody Know's When You're Down and Out" and how much he sounded like Ray Charles back then..Incredible!
Great choice.
Glad please next.
I actually got into Traffic late personally, my artist friend I know had Low Spark, Shoot Out, and On The Road albums. He had so many albums of new to me genres and artists. Finally, I bought Smiling Phases, a retrospective double set. Luckily most of my favs are on one disc starting with Glad, Freedom Rider, JB Must Die and Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, which I play a lot at work while mimicking Chris Wood’s flute by whistling. Love this crazy band.
The Essential Airto is his two first solo albums together. Airto I believe played on Live Evil with Miles Davis.
He’s also on Borboletta by Santana.
Of course, he and Flora Purim were in the original incarnation of Return To Forever. Hope you like this collection, opened up the South American world of jazz along with Gato Barbieri, and Egberto Gismonti and Hermeto Pascoal. Great jazz guys play in these bands: Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke, Herbie Hancock, John Abercrombie, etc.
Peace and home brewed Music
That's a great idea, the version from On The Road with Freedom Rider is a good too.
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Wish Justin would play more live music, sometimes it’s captured lightning in a bottle.
@@-davidolivares I'm down with that.
Traffic are awesome
The musicianship is excellent, but it lacks the joi de vivre of the Steeleye version, which should be there if you are singing this in a tavern with a flowing pint in hand. Where's the spirit of fun?
The crop you are looking for is Barley. The clue's in the name. It is used in brewing, and mature barley dies have long whiskers, which is mentioned in the lyric - he grew a long beard.
I'd be happy to listen to more of this album. It was seen a lot in my youth, being carried by the cogniciente, but I never had a copy myself.
This was my first listen to Traffic. Dad bought the album for the jazzy horns in Glad and Freedom Rider as these two tunes are always played together.I found to enjoy this music well. RIP Dad. 🎶🎷🎺🎷
This is a fantastic album. It was originally supposed to be Winwood's solo debut, so there is at least one song where you hear a full band, but it's entirely Steve, and another with just Jim on drums. I do highly recommend hearing the entire album.
I know "Hole in my shoe" is an off track in Traffic's production. Still it was a hit in the 60s which I liked a lot and still do!
All the other songs on this album have drums, electric guitars....
Some songs are jazz-rock.
It's one of those albums where every song is really good.
Barley can be used for beer or whisky (or whiskey, depending on where it's made). The one step the song seems to miss is the malting process where the grain kernels are laid out and moistened until they start to germinate. Without this step the enzymes required to change the starch into sugar would not be present and without sugar there would be nothing for the yeast to eat and produce alcohol, which, of course, is the whole point of the process.
I always wondered why the song mentions brandy since brandy is produced by distilling wine. Perhaps it was simply a note of the color of the liquor produced, which for whisky comes solely from the wood barrels it's aged in. Yeah, you've happened to hit on a favorite topic of mine.🙂
Great topic. Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye is made about 60 miles (100 km) north of here in the town of Gimli. Famous for it's whiskey, the Gimli Glider and the number of people of Icelandic heritage living there.
Scottish poet Robert Burns has a nearly identical version of "John Barleycorn" (1782) to describe the making of whisky. Some slight differences in wording and a couple more verses. I believe Traffic is singing an English version for the making of brandy.
Burns based his poem on the earlier English song.
The first LP I ever bought, back a long long time ago. Tremendous album.
My third favorite flutey band. Many a Mile to Freedom from LS of HH Boys has a flute solo that’s sublime.
It's been a very long time since I've listened to this version, and it's as great as I remember it. Thanks for sharing 🙂. Of course, the song itself has a mystical/magical element to it as well, as much about the seasons and rebirth/resurrection as an allegorical telling of beer making. Many of these old songs have something of that nature spirit undercurrent to them, and John Barleycorn is one of the better known ones. I think Traffic really capture that spirit with their version.
Also, if you're enjoying the storytelling element of these traditional songs, I recommend you check out some of the ballads sung by Martin Carthy (who at one point joined Steeleye Span). Something like Famous Flower of Serving Men, or Prince Heathen - really powerful ballads performed with passion and some masterful guitar work.
The whole lp is superb.
You will love these guys. I can’t think of a bad song from them. You will also love Blind Faith which was Steve Winwood and Ric Grech from Traffic and Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker from Cream
This tune might be the oldest song in history that is still heard today. Possibly a thousand years old! I think it's even older than "Greensleeves". Barleycorn was the old British word for wheat or grain. It's a pagan mythic tale of transformation, as the god of the fields is transformed into alcohol. I LOVE THIS SONG and I rarely drink! LOL The rest of this album is a fusion of psychedelic rock.
The song dates back to 14th December 1624 when it was registered with the Stationers Company of London.
It's not pagan at all - it is an allegory.
Steve Winwood is one of the greatest talents western music has ever produced. Dig deeper into his career -- you won't be sorry. And yes, the focus on the vocal performance in folk music is no accident. Folk music was born out of the ancient tradition of travelling story tellers and entertainers. Back in the day most common people were illiterate and this is how their cultural traditions were shared. Folk musicians to this day often learn their songs from having them passed from one to another, and I've read a lot of folk album CD liner notes that mention "such and such song was picked up from so-and-so who learned it from so-and-so..." So yeah, it's a very different tradition than most pop music and something I hope you spend more time exploring. You're already seeing the connection to Jethro Tull, but Traffic is another band that explored a folkier sound in the early 70s. If you want to jump over the other way I highly recommend Fairport Convention's Leige and Lief album.
Yes, listen to the album! While this song is great it’s not a representation of the rest album.
Traffic is a semi-supergroup with some moving parts but the 3 members on this album are the core.
The rest of the album is less folky, with elements of jazz , blues and solid rock.
Love this album!!!! I really hope they make it big someday. lol
Thanks for the nice Sunday morning song, Justin. Looking forward to more Traffic.
A brilliant album
John Barley corn is not beer but Whiskey. when they sing of his beard and becoming a man it's a celebration of the harvest and the beard is when it's ripe and can be used to make spirits. Not too sure what the 3 men from the west were, maybe brewers?
A good song though, it's kept my interest ,good to hear folk song sung by a well known group. It's done well. Thanks for uploading.
Do listen to the entire album, one of their best.
Listen to the whole album cuz it’s really great and I know you will love it
" Empty Pages" is a nice song off that album.
Medieval vibe.
Barley = whiskey
Some instrumental music you might like: *Guy Buttery* - live in India, with friends. th-cam.com/video/fJBKxzx703w/w-d-xo.html
Apparently most of what might appear to be big gestures of some kind of expression was actually communication of things like the changes - not really "conducting" the fully collaborative work but something a bit like that - because they hadn't had enough rehearsal time. (It was a new piece at the time, I think.)
Malted Barley, Yeast, Hops and Water, the basic ingredients of Beer. Of course there are Wheat Beers and almost any other grain you care to name, but these are the standard ingredients of say a Lager or Pilsner, the most common types consumed in the USA. I don't count Light or Lite Beers.
Again, this song is not àbout making beer. It's about making whiskey. There's more than one beverage to be made from barley! In England, Barleycorn means whiskey.
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Barleycorn means barley.
This is a version of a poem by Robert Burns
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Burns based his poem on the earlier English song.
Good choice, Justin. I haven't heard this one for ages. 😊
Incredible…. Musical savant.
A trio on THIS album. Other musicians came and went during their time. I love the early Dave Mason albums. Nice breakdown as usual Justin. Yes, as others have said, MORE Traffic please. Now I think i understand your reluctance to react to more Procol Harum. It's the SONGS I suggested. So, let's go with two different ones. Please return to Procol Harum with their songs Nothing I Didn't Know (acoustic guitar and a sad tale) or Piggy Pig Pig (God's aloft, the winds are raging). (This is, if you REALLY didn't want to do Simple Sister)
Grand Hotel's quite spiffy too -- the whole album, or ... oh... Fires Which Burnt Brightly.
Barley used to make brandy’s and ale and the tinker use barley as well
This is a metal acoustic song.
I think there's a slight reference to the fact that barley which is a particular grain and very important for making alcohol because when you sprout it and then you cook it it creates the carbohydrate conversion to sugar so that it can be used to ferment alcohol but there is also another interesting little factoid there are some times when The Barley is left out and it gets rained on it will grow a fungus called ergot And I think that's what they were referring to when they speak of John Barleycorn growing a beard like he became a man well the interesting thing is this ergot fungus is an analog to LSD which Albert Hoffman studied and came up with a i chemistry and the active ingredient and the rest is history but yeah you know who knows but I really do think that is a reference hello hidden little tidbit off in the background there
Nothing to do with hallucinogenics.
The 'beard' is obvious if you look at a photo of barley.
This was a really perceptive reaction, Justin. Your observation that in traditional song the words are really important is spot on - some would say they’re more important than the words, really. A word of warning: take claims of ‘pagan’ music with a large pinch of salt. John Barleycorn is a fine song that doesn't need romantising by giving it 'pagan' roots. Most scholars agree its origins are early modern (16th century) and the version Steve sings is a 19th century rewrite. Nothing wrong with that!
1624 and an 18th century rewrite - The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs.
This album is worth checking but I'd suggest Winwood's first solo album (1977). Songs like Hold On, Time Is Running Out and Vacant Chair (my favourite) are great!
RIP Chris Wood, Jim Capaldi. (The Blind Faith song called 'Sea of Joy' would have been a great addition to this album, instead of 'Every Mother's Son'........just my humble opinion.)