Also re-released this past month is the latest in the awesome Universal Music DELUXE EDITION series- the Classic Album JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE by Steve Winwood group TRAFFIC.
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I’ve always loved these DELUXE EDITION releases (other albums I’ve picked up have been releases from the Who and Moody Blues, among others) because besides the beautiful packaging and sonic remastering, they always manage to dig up a whole slew of interesting rarities for their Bonus disc, and this release is no different!
John Barleycorn Must Die has always been my favorite TRAFFIC album, and I couldn’t wait once I found out it was FINALLY getting the Deluxe Edition Treatment!
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The remastered disc is great- crisp pinging highs and droning lows (especially in the opening track GLAD), but the treat of this disc is the BONUS stuff- from alternate takes of songs like STRANGER TO HIMSELF, JOHN BARLEYCORN and EVERY MOTHER’S SON to selections from the legendary live 1970 FILLMORE EAST concert sets:
Medicated Goo
Empty Pages
Forty Thousand Headmen
Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring?
Every Mother’s Son
Glad
Freedom Rider
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Been playing this disc in the car the past few days and have been subjecting all who ride along with me the wonder of Traffic, including one friend who commented (when hearing Freedom Rider), “I thought this was Blind Faith”. HAHAHAHA, seems he’d gotten his Steve Winwood groups mixed, and it’s kind of funny in that this was a guy whose favorite single in 1980 was “While You See A Chance”! LOL
