Steve Winwood had left the Spencer Davis Group and seen Traffic and Blind Faith break up before he turned 22. But after recording a few tracks for a solo album in which he played all of the ...

is the Traffic album that nearly never was. After all, the band had split up a couple of years earlier after guitarist Dave Mason left the group for the second time. It was a sudden end to what had ...

Steve Winwood had his solo career laid out in front of him, but he put what was best for the music in front of any ego. The result was a reunited Traffic and their 1970 classic album John Barleycorn ...

Traffic to Release Deluxe Edition of John Barleycorn Must Die March 8 Deluxe Import Includes Alternate Takes, Live Tracks & Previously Unreleased Material Originally a project where Steve Winwood ...

Q: Can you tell me the meaning behind the song “John Barleycorn” by Traffic? Bradford Brady and John Maron write the weekly On The Record column.

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For all of the buzz surrounding frontman Steve Winwood when he helped form Traffic in 1967, the band's not-so-secret weapon was its genre-jumping music. Like many of its contemporaries, the quartet ...

Traffic reinvented themselves repeatedly over the course of close to three decades together, but perhaps never more dramatically than with John Barleycorn Must Die. The deluxe version of the title ...

Towards the end of 1969, Traffic had ground to a standstill. The ever-errant Dave Mason had left for the second time during the making of 1968’s Traffic. The remaining group gradually dispersed to the ...