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"John Barleycorn" is one of my absolute earworms. The two Traffic vinyl albums I own are the post-"Blind Faith": "John Barleycorn Must Die" from 1970 and the 1971 "The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" (both bought several years after initial release). I was a bit puzzled not to find the name of one drummer in the "Traffic" article on Wikipedia. But going direct to his name cleared things up: Pete York and Steve Winwood played together pre Winwood's Traffic years, in the Spencer Davis Group! And I once saw and heard Pete York live in the north of Nürnberg in a music club, with his then group "Pete York's New York". Don't know precisely when that was, but I bought a vinyl thingy then and there, the group's "Into the Furnace" from 1980 (And I just noticed - I knew I had garnered Pete's signature on the inner sleeve - that I seem to have gotten the signatures of (all) four members of the group there! And that I noted when - 27 January 1981 - and where (no idea if this cellar club still exists) I managed to get a hold of it!). A song from that LP (and that they played that night) is an even more serious earworm for me: "Blue Mountain Roll"! Send shivers down my back even now! 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Good stuff. But if you want to get a hold of some really good Brazilian / Jazz fusion stuff, try to get your mitts on a copy of Stan Getz's 1972 "Captain Marvel". He got together a group of serious luminaries for this: Chick Corea, who composed most of the material, Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira and Tony Williams 🤩🤩🤩 . And if you liked the flute bit, just check out Herbie Mann. 🤩🤩🤩 I have 19 albums by this guy, including the amazing 1962 "At The Village Gate", which has about the earliest music riffs that I can still remember.
On the other hand, the "newest" album of his that I have is from 1974 ...
And on an entirely other hand, on Mann's 1971 album "Push Push", some guy named Duane Allman lends the session some (slide) guitar fireworks.