“John Barleycorn” by Traffic

"John Barleycorn" is Traffic's take on a traditional song, and it turned up in July 1970 on John Barleycorn Must Die, the English band's fourth album and their comeback after a brief breakup; the record became their highest-charting album in America. Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi share the vocal, Winwood playing acoustic guitar and piano and Capaldi shaking a tambourine, while Chris Wood adds flute and percussion.

Winwood produced it with Chris Blackwell, and Brian Humphries and Andy Johns engineered. Where the songwriter's name would normally go, the credit simply reads traditional.

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