Album
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Why this album mattered
John Barleycorn Must Die (1970) is a Traffic album in the RetroVerse archive. The RetroVerse catalog lists 10 tracks on this release. It reached #5 and charted for 38 weeks.
The music
- 1
Glad
- 2
Freedom Rider
3 Empty Pages
- 4
I Just Want You to Know
- 5
Stranger to Himself
- 6
John Barleycorn (Must Die)
- 7
Every Mother’s Son
- 8
Sittin’ Here Thinkin’ of My Love
- 9
Backstage & Introduction (live)
- 10
Who Knows What Tomorrow Will Bring (live)
One bar, one chart week
The chart journey
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Chart Journey
The songs behind the run
Breakout songs
The album’s tracks with chart history. Open a song to follow its full journey.
Similar chart journeys
Albums with similar chart journeys share comparable chart arcs — how they climbed, peaked, and endured on the chart.
