In Reply to: RE: Traffic "John Barleycorn Must Die" posted by Mr_Steady on September 24, 2015 at 18:37:00:
One thing I wanted to add.
If you love the song JBMD, and if you like Jethro Tull, then you may want to pick up a copy of Steeleye Span's, "Below the Salt." It has an electrified traditional version of this song. Very cool. The theme of that album was electrified medieval and early renaissance music. The album was pretty well done technically, and it is a reference recording of mine.
The SES version has a different ending that I like better.
>"They have worked their will on John Barleycorn
but he lived to tell the tale,
and they pour him out of an old brown jug,
and they call him home brewed ale."
I've read there are more than 1,000 documented variations of this traditional English folk song.
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Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!
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