2/21/2024 0 Comments Freedom rider song traffic![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My brother and sisters and I just loved it. 'I looked to the sky where an elephant's eye/Was looking at me, from a bubble-gum tree.' We thought 'Hole in my Shoe' was an ingenuously naive pop song for childish adults and adult children, but clearly there was more going on that met the eye – especially when that breathy youthful female voice-over talked of climbing on the back of a giant albatross that flew through a gap in the clouds to a land where happiness reigned all the year round. Long before Sergeant Pepper, which I would discover retrospectively, they gave me my first taste of psychedelia.!(upload://rj1VJA7jFn2n94Qo5GhPaTFEKz2.jpg) And then I loved Traffic when they burst upon the scene a couple of years later. I loved the Spencer Davis band as a kid, and in particular the prodigiously mature impassioned vocals of their keyboard player, the real star of the quartet from Birmingham. It seems that Steve Winwood has been with me almost all of my vie en albums. The traditional English folk song, with its simple, melodious tale of harvesting and distilling the barley corn into some potent alcoholic drink of yore, still as compelling as ever. The voice still sounds good, even though he must be closing in on 70. There was a YouTube video doing the rounds not long ago of Stevie Winwood, perhaps in his home studio, singing ‘John Barleycorn’ accompanied by his acoustic guitar. ![]()
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