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 ...

If you read my most recent column about Fall, the harvest and the English folksong John Barleycorn, below is a more detailed look at the ancient poem. John Barleycorn is an old English folksong that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Autumn is upon us, the weather is cooling — and the beer is becoming fuller-bodied to help keep us warm. Curiously, we’ve only called this season autumn or fall for a relatively short time. Fall is ...

Comes a time when it’s mandatory to step away from the morass of misdeeds and moronic mistakes that is the Mordor of modern matters of state. It’s unofficially summer, so let’s pour a mug of our ...

Nearly three months after the last call at John Barleycorn, closing time has yet to arrive for the real estate deal that shut down the longtime Lincoln Park bar. A lawsuit has thwarted the sale of the ...

The 400-seat spot (about 320 for dining; 80 at the bars), aims to open in mid-November and will generally feel like Barleycorn’s other locations in regard to the food and drink, but will have a bit ...

Schaumburg’s John Barleycorn restaurant is ceasing its day-to-day operations, but will remain open exclusively as a venue for private parties and special events, its owner announced Tuesday. The ...