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...snare drum work is flat, and detracts from the overall lightness. So do Rebop's congas. Wood's sax solo is short, disjointed and cliched. The song's saving grace is Steve's guitar. "Evening Blue" is a mood piece, with a pastoral opening out of "John Barleycorn." It would have been successful given the same spare treatment...
...CRIMSON hailed "The Passing of John Barleycorn" in an editorial on the day the requisite number of states ratified Probihition...
...John Barleycorn had a long life and served his purpose well--after his fashion. On cold nights he made us warm; on hot days he made use cool...
...London police on robbery detail stopped a seedy little man for routine questioning and seemed to have stumbled on the solution of a murder in Portsmouth, 65 miles away. Harold Loughan-a brash habitual criminal-volunteered the information that he had crept into the rooms above the John Barleycorn pub three weeks before and, in committing a robbery, had strangled to death the pub's owner, Rose Robinson. "It's a relief to get it off my mind," he told the police. "I didn't mean to kill the old girl, but you know what...
Maximum Penalty. The liveliest of the longer pieces deals with Prohibition, and John Bull has a field day with the U.S. v. John Barleycorn. Proffered bribes to a Prohibition agent ran as high as $300,000 a week; Al Capone's liquor take was $75 million a year. At the outset, the Department of Justice had no plans for handling Volstead Act violations; after the act had been in force for one month, the first open court date in New York State was three years...