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BLIND FAITH was cursed at its very inception by being billed as a supergroup. This was truly a pity, because for all the classic beauty of its only recording, Blind Faith was a band that never had a legitimate opportunity to come together as a performing ensemble. Hyped to the hilt and rushed into a massive, chaotic tour, the band fell apart after its final American concerts when Eric Clapton packed it in to join Delaney & Bonnie's band.
BLIND FAITH scored a big hit with its evocative acoustic ballad "Can't Find My Way Home," featuring Winwood's raspy falsetto, Clapton's poignant acoustic guitar, and Baker's pulsing brush work. But then, every song on BLIND FAITH has become an FM radio staple. "Presence of the Lord" with Winwood's fervent vocals, "Had to Cry Today" (featuring Clapton's dense, multi-tracked blues leads), and the jacked-up rockabilly of Buddy Holly's "Well Alright," are all good examples. But the band never had much of a life outside the studio, and after Blind Faith folded, Winwood and Grech joined Baker's Air Force before reforming Traffic. Clapton began moving away from extended improvisations into more tightly structured song forms on his first solo album, ERIC CLAPTON, and proceeded in the same direction with Derek & The Dominos.
Originally released on Atco (33-304)/Polydor (583 059).
Recorded at Olympic & Morgan Studios, London, England between February & June, 1969.
Reissue producer: Bill Levenson.
Engineers include: Andy Johns, Alan O'Duffy, Keith Harwood.
Blind Faith: Steve Winwood (vocals, guitar, piano, organ, bass); Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar); Rick Grech (violin, bass); Ginger Baker (drums, percussion).
Producer: Jimmy Miller.
Rolling Stone (9/6/69, p.27) - "...with Blind Faith, Clapton appears to have found his groove at last. Every solo is a model of economy, well-thought-out and well-executed with a good deal more subtlety and feeling than we have come to expect from Clapton..." -Lester Bangs
Q (4/01, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...[This album] has much to admire, not least Steve Winwood's rarely bettered vocal contributions which make him sound every inch the aged Deep South bluesman..." Stereo Review's CD Buyer's Guide - "...For 20 years this has been a cornerstone in any basic rock library. MFSL's CD is the one to choose. The Ultradisc brings the brisk, jazzy music up-close and in living color..." Blind Faith Music | List Price | $9.95 (You save $3.46) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Rock/Pop, Hard Rock | | Label | Polydor | | Orig Year | 1969 | | All Time Sales Rank |  397   | | CD Universe Part number | 1590786 | | Catalog number | 531818 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 27, 2001 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Recording Time | 42 minutes | | Personnel | Eric Clapton - vocals, guitar
Steve Winwood - vocals, guitar, piano, organ, bass
Ginger Baker - drums, percussion
Rick Grech - violin, bass
| | Additional Info | Remastered |
Blind Faith Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Agree 100%...
The reviews are right-on. This is a great lineup of artists, the songs are classic. The kind of tunes you want to hear on a Saturday afternoon.
Favorite tune: Can't Find My Way Home, although the drum solo in "do what you like" is one of the best!
Submitted by JC (Deep in the heart of Texas) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  Blind Faith - 'nuf said!!
Do you need to add to your 60's catalog? Blind Faith. Want to hear some of the best music from the 60's? Blind Faith. What do you get when you add a little Cream to Traffic? Blind Faith.
This is a classic album, a wonderful snapshot of the music scene in 1969. Every moment, every note, every splash cymbal from Ginger Baker is a gem. This album is nearly perfect and is still as fresh today as it was the year after the "Summer of Love."
Put in the CD, light the incense, fire up the black light and "Do What You Like."
Submitted by bongolong (Silverado, CA, USA)
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 GREAT PRODUCTION , BUT....
TAKE THE THREE STUDIO TUNES FROM GOODBYE CREAM AND SUBSTITUTE THEM FOR "DO WHAT YOU LIKE" AND YOU WOULD HAVE A REALLY GOOD RECORD.AS IT STANDS , THERE IS TOO MUCH FILLER AND NOT ENOUGH REAL CREATIVITY.A WASTE OF BOTH WINWOOD'S AND CLAPTON'S TALENTS.
PRODUCTION***** PERFORMANCE**
Submitted by ARTISTE (MUSIKHALLE)
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Best Rock ever
I've been listeing to this album since it first came out, on LP. This is a timeless collection of music that is as good today as it was back then.
Submitted by steventobias (Chula Vista, CA)
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steve winwood, eric clapton, ginger baker. If only jack bruce would have came with the package...Anyways, its a classic and should be heard by all musicians and music lovers
Submitted by zola (Flint, MI, USA)
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Purchase Blind Faith CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland CD (1968)
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Principally recorded at the Record Plant, New York, New York in April and May 1968.
On ELECTRIC LADYLAND Jimi Hendrix stretched and experimented in the studio, going beyond the power-trio format on what would be his last studio album with the Experience. ELECTRIC LADYLAND was revolutionary in its scope and execution. Using New York City's Record Plant as a gateway to free expression, Hendrix traversed an abstract landscape containing compositions as weird and wonderful as "...And The Gods Made Love" and "1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)."
Simultaneously looking forwards and backwards, Hendrix mixed in a song reminiscent of his time on the chitlin' circuit (Earl King's "Come On [Part 1]"), a Bob Dylan favorite ("All Along The Watchtower"), and one of his snappiest singles ("Crosstown Traffic"). Although Hendrix produced and wrote most of this masterpiece, others weighed in with their own contributions. Noel Redding penned "Little Miss Strange," and other guests such as Al Kooper and Buddy Miles showed up to play. Traffic's Steve Winwood and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane also made cameos, appearing on this classic album's spiritual center, "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)."
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| | Beatles (White Album) CDs (1968) Limited Ed. No Longer Available
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Each copy of this limited edition is sequentially numbered. The packaging recreates the original double-gatefold sleeve and includes the original poster as well as the individual photos of each band member.
Additional personnel includes: Yoko Ono (vocals); Eric Clapton (electric guitar); Mal Evans (trumpet, tambourine); George Martin (piano, harmonium); Chris Thomas (harpsichord, Mellotron); Maureen Starkey, Patti Harrison (background vocals).
THE BEATLES (generally known as "The White Album" because of its cover) was a sprawling two-record set, highlighting the distinct personalities in the group as they matured and moved further away from each other. With the four Beatles playing like session men on each other's songs, the making of the album was fraught with tension. John Lennon's songs included a bitter take on people who read too much into the Beatles' lyrics ("Glass Onion"), reflections on loneliness and alienation ("Yer Blues," "I'm So Tired"), and the avant garde sound collage "Revolution 9."
George Harrison's songs offered black humor ("Piggies") and tender sadness ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps," with Eric Clapton on guitar). Paul McCartney provided both light, lyric songs ("Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Honey Pie"), and rockers ("Back ...
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The remastered DISRAELI GEARS is also available in its entirety on the 4 disc set THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
Recorded in the U.S. in a three-and-a-half day flurry of inspired activity before the band members' visas expired, DISRAELI GEARS continued to present the legendary, unprecedented rock power-trio acrobatics pioneered by Cream on their debut FRESH CREAM. The acronymic "SWLABR (She Walked Like a Bearded Rainbow)" for instance, featured some of the band's most fiery instrumental interplay. The album, with its eye-catching day-glo cover, was produced by Felix Pappalardi (who went on to co-found the Cream-inspired Mountain) and once again featured collaborations between singer/bassist Jack Bruce and lyric poet Pete Brown. The Top Five hit "Sunshine Of Your Love," however, was written by Brown and Eric Clapton. That iconic riff-rocker, along with the slinky, bluesy "Strange Brew," and the mythographic, wah-wah stomper "Tales of Brave Ulysses" was a staple of rock radio forever after, making DISRAELI GEARS one of the seminal '60s rock albums. Despite the good humor suggested by the ...
| | Traffic Definitive Collection CD (2000) Remastered
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Digitally remastered by Tom Ruff (Universal Music Studios East, Edison, New Jersey).
This release was formerly titled: FEELIN' ALLRIGHT: THE VERY BEST OF TRAFFIC.
This well thought-out anthology includes just about every notable Traffic track from their peak years of 1968 to 1971. What immediately impresses here is the range of the band and the variety of their influences. They veer from psychedelic pop (love that cheesy sitar on their debut hit, "Paper Sun"), to jazz-inflected R&B on the instrumental "Glad," via Celtic folk in the lovely, pastoral "John Barleycorn Must Die," and the psychedelic rock of San Francisco-style jams on "Mr. Fantasy."
The whole enterprise is held together by the glue of Jim Capaldi's vastly underrated drumming and by Stevie Winwood's justifiably celebrated keyboards and Ray Charles-inflected vocals. You can almost smell the incense and controlled substances that were present at the creation of most of this material, but, in a way, this only adds to the music's laid-back charm. Essential.
Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England between April 1967 and May 1970; The Record Plant, New York, New York from January-May 1968; Morgan Studios, London, England in November 1968; Island Studios, London, England between ...
| | Traffic John Barleycorn Must Die CD (1970) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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Although JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE was originally intended as Steve Winwood's post-Blind Faith solo debut, Winwood and producer/label head Chris Blackwell first drafted Jim Capaldi to provide lyrics, and then Chris Wood dropped by to add his familiar reeds, and almost by accident, Traffic was reborn.
This was a different, and better, Traffic than the ill-fated quartet lineup with Dave Mason, which never entirely settled on an artistic direction. The sound of JOHN BARLEYCORN MUST DIE, on the other hand, remained the template for the rest of the reunited band's career--long, organically developed songs with a subtle jazz-rock feel, powered by Capaldi's percussion and Winwood's organ. "John Barleycorn," a traditional English folk song about the process of brewing ale (not, as the liner notes mistakenly claim, a call for temperance), here becomes a pastoral reverie carried along by flute and acoustic guitar, and proves to be the record's highlight. However, the quality of the other songs, particularly the instrumental opener, "Glad," and the outstanding ballad "Empty Pages," is nearly as high.
At only 22 years old, Steve Winwood sat down in early 1970 to fulfill a contractual commitment by making his first solo album, on which he intended to play all the instruments himself. The record got as far as one backing track produced by Guy Stevens, "Stranger to Himself," before Winwood called his erstwhile partner from ...
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A surprise best-seller when it was first released, this mostly improvised pairing of singer/keyboardist/producer Al Kooper with two major guitar heroes of the day sounds fascinating all these years later precisely because of the distance of time--nobody makes records like this any more. The material runs the gamut from folk pop (covers of Donovan and Dylan), to blues ("Albert's Shuffle," "You Don't Love Me"), to heady jams ("His Holy Modal Majesty"), to big-band jazz ("Harvey's Tune").
All the tunes make effective templates for the kind off-the-cuff music-making that in less capable hands might have resulted in simple noodling. In fact, although Bloomfield and Stills don't play together on any of the cuts (Bloomfield played on one side of the original LP, Stills on the other), all three principals get off lots of good licks and producer Kooper has some interesting tricks up his sleeve, as in the over-the-top phasing he lavishes on "You Don't Love Me." The only real disappointment here is ...
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MAKING FRIENDSTHIS NEW CD INCLUDES AN ORIGINAL DESIGN OF A HYBRID BASS, 15 STRING GUITAR WITH A METAL KEY PAD AND MORE …MAKING FRIENDS combines electronic elements, classical forms, and jazz harmonic structures to create a musical dialect with the content alternating between discordant instrumental sound collages and lush vocal pop epics. Her original instrument designs include a 15 string guitar with a metal key pad, an oscillator and a hybrid bass with a stereo output. These instruments create unique sounds and add to the CD’s musical journey.In 2001, she started recording Making Friends after she built her analog home studio in San Francisco. “I wanted do everything myself, from building the gear in my studio to mixing and producing the record.’ So, that’s what I did.” Then, after a cross-country move to the Northeast in 2004, she chucked her analog tape decks, bought ProTools , and finished Making Friends in her Brooklyn apartment in 2006. “I brought a lot of musician friends into my studio to play the horn and drum parts; and I played all of the other instruments, along with some instruments I designed and / or built myself,” says Norwich.One of the main instruments used on the recording is Aimee’s original design of a hybrid bass. It is a modified ¾ scale Fender bass. The three highest strings are piccolo strings, which are in the guitar register, and are on a different circuit than the E bass string. The E string has a custom one-string bass pickup and the piccolo strings use a guitar pickup. There is a stereo output which allows Aimee to split the signal and run the bass and piccolo strings on separate signal paths; thus allowing her to play bass and guitar parts simultaneously through different amplifiers. The oscillator she built, with a customized chassis and other added components, may be heard in the ending noise landscape on the last song, I Never (reprise). Finally she uses a 15 string guitar with a metal key pad and nails hammered into the neck by her design. With its ...
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