A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
Maybe dragged down just a bit by decades of classic rock radio saturation, the killer single off 1970's John Barleycorn Must Die nonetheless emerges as one of the handful of Traffic songs I still really dig. They get surprisingly funky here, the song buoyed by the percussion shuffle and an attention-grabbing bassline, though of course it's Steve Winwood's soulful pipes that make it one of the enduring epics of the FM age. It feels like it oughtta go on far longer than its mere 4-and-a-half-minute running time, some stellar jazzy jamming that seems built for extended Grateful Dead-styled cosmic noodling.Live 1994:Winwood 2005:Blood, Sweat & Tears slap it with horns and mine the funk grooves:Gov't Mule live 2017:
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