back around 1983, my crazy older brother ran away to hawaii. i kind of missed the daily torture, but he did leave me, a 15 year old with a hankering for all the music i could get my hands on, with a crazy ass stereo system and many hundreds of records he bought working at sam goody. (can you say "almost famous")
so, i've got all these records around me and way too much time to do nothing but explore. i will never forget the first one i pulled out and listened to. i was beckoned by the creepy, old-english looking cover talking about some man that must die. the wood-carved style pictures on the back, the starkness of it all. it stood out from the rest. what luck that this was the first one i pulled. a thousand or so plays later, it stays with me.
i have just received a mint version of the vinyl ordered from www.musicdirect.com.
i will go away now for a bit.
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Copy-cats!
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AH THE FEELING OF BLISS AND DISCOVERY
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No love for John Barleycorn. I hear that name everywhere lately. There's a disturbance in the force. This album looks pretty interesting. Looking at the wiki on the John Barleycorn song people have been singing a version of it as far back as the 1500's. I think I'll make up my own.
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a classic......would have loved to have seen traffic live in their heydey.
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didn't figure you for a high heeled boy.
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If your brother by any chance left behind Traffic's LP "Last Exit," check out the middle of the cut "Feelin' Good" (not to be confused with "Feeling Alright"). They create an ethereal new arrangement of a song from the 60's musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd" that goes seamlessly from a melodic ballad to a bluesy jazzy vamp. Like much of late Traffic, the intro and finale of the cut are too groping and desultory but the middle of the cut is A+ music.
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this is one of my all-time favorite albums (actually all bands with Steve Winwood are high in my favorites list)
sadly I only have these oldies in vinyl & so don't listen very often. thanks for the reminder
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Yeah, this is an absolute keeper for sure. I love this album like you would not believe, this and Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys would make a legendary double LP. Good call!
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i love the live effort, Welcome to the Canteen. has my favorite traffic tune, "shouldn't have took more than you gave. that and a blistering medicated goo opener and a rousing, closing twofer of dear mr. fantasy>gimme some loving. haven't heard john barleycorn in a million years, i wounder if it is on that long lost hard drive some bum owes me
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Yeah, I think I was fifteen, too. Got it for Christmas, along with Goodbye Cream, making it one of the two best music Christmases ever (the other: 1988 when I got Let It Bleed and Rust Never Sleeps--hot damn!). I cut some of the organ solo out of Every Mother's Son and put both albums on a 60 minute tape that I pretty much wore out it a year.