AllMusicd. ]. undefined [20ByByWilliam Ruhlmannd. ]. undefined [20"Five of the six songs had lyrics, and their tone of disaffection was typical of earlier Capaldi sentiments. But the vocal sections of the songs merely served as excuses for Winwood to exercise his expressive voice as punctuation to the extended instrumental sections. As such, John Barleycorn Must Die moved beyond the jamming that had characterized some of Traffic's 1968 work to approach the emerging field of jazz-rock. And that helped the band to achieve its commercial potential; this became Traffic's first gold album".Read review
AllMusic2011ByByWilliam Ruhlmann2011"John Barleycorn Must Die moved beyond the jamming that had characterized some of Traffic's 1968 work to approach the emerging field of jazz-rock. And that helped the band to achieve its commercial potential; this became Traffic's first gold album".Read review
BBC musicd. 2. Mar. 2011ByBySean Egand. 2. Mar. 2011"By the time we get to the closing seven-minute Every Mother's Son, though, we feel we've been here before and excellent musicianship is not quite enough to disguise the meandering and the marginal differentiation".Read review