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Blind Faith - Blind Faith (1969) (2CD Deluxe Edit 2002)
Short-lived classic-rock supergroup Blind Faith's sole album (1969) has aged remarkably well. Blind Faith fused the psychedelic blues of Eric Clapton and the soulful vocals and keyboards of Steve Winwood with the polyrhythmic, Afrocentric leanings of drummer Ginger Baker. "Can't Find My Way Home" is easily one of the hippie era's most lyrically poignant, sonically subtle tunes. The record has a lot of surprises; "Presence of the Lord" is rousing and melancholy at the same time, while the way the bass and guitar double-team on the introductory melodic line to "Had to Cry Today" makes a hard-rock cliché fresh again. The 10-minute drum solo on "Do What You Like" is pretty good as 10-minute drum solos go; Blind Faith is not a purchase for the jam-shy, especially in its present, bloated form, which adds almost an hour and a half of unreleased jams and mixes. And while surely there are levitational moments within the five 12-to-16-minute improv sections included here, the excess (and lack of great material; remember that this band was only together a few months) grows tiresome. One notable exception is the "Change of Address Jam," excerpts from which were pressed up as a record label change-of-address announcement back in the day. It's got a pleasant, near-swinging, Graham Bond/Booker T on Quaaludes vibe, with Winwood's keyboards rollicking nicely in a manner recalling his work on Electric Ladyland. The rest of disc two is for wank aficionados and completists only...M. McGonigal
Blind Faith's first and last album, more than 30 years old and counting, remains one of the jewels of the Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Ginger Baker catalogs, despite the crash-and-burn history of the band itself, which scarcely lasted six months. As much a follow-up to Traffic's self-titled second album as it is to Cream's final output, it merges the soulful blues of the former with the heavy riffing and outsized song lengths of the latter for a very compelling sound unique to this band. Not all of it works -- between the virtuoso electric blues of "Had to Cry Today," the acoustic-textured "Can't Find My Way Home," the soaring "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton's one contribution here as a songwriter, and the first great song he ever authored) and "Sea of Joy," the band doesn't do much with the Buddy Holly song "Well All Right"; and Ginger Baker's "Do What You Like" was a little weak to take up 15 minutes of space on an LP that might have been better used for a shorter drum solo and more songs. Unfortunately, the group was never that together as a band and evidently had just the 42 minutes of new music here ready to tour behind...B. Eder
Codec: mp3
Bitrate: 320 kB/s
Size: 302 MB
Genre : Rock
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Tracklist:
CD 1
01. Had to Cry Today 8:48
02. Can't Find My Way Home 3:16
03. Well All Right 4:27
04. Presence of the Lord 4:50
05. Sea of Joy 5:22
06. Do What You Like 15:18
07. Sleeping in the Ground (Prev. Unreleased Mix) 2:49
08. Can't Find My Way Home (Electric Version) (Prev. Unreleased Mix) 5:40
09. Acoustic Jam (Prev. Unreleased) 15:50
10. Time Winds (Prev. Unreleased 3:15
11. Sleeping in the Ground (Slow Blues Version) (Prev. Unreleased) 4:44
CD 2
01. Jam No.1: Very Long & Good Jam (Prev. Unreleased) 14:01
02. Jam No.2: Slow Jam #1 (Prev. Unreleased) 15:06
03. Jam No.3: Change of Address Jam (Prev. Unreleased) 12:06
04. Jam No.4: Slow Jam #2 (Prev. Unreleased) 16:06
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