Blind Faith

by Blind Faith

Overview

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. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	11/04/2016
Label:	Imports
UPC:	4988031180167
Rank:	9368

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Blind Faith   Primary Artist
Rick Grech   Bass,Violin,Vocals
Eric Clapton   Vocals,Guitar
Ginger Baker   Drums,Percussion
Steve Winwood   Bass,Organ,Piano,Guitar,Vocals,Keyboards

Technical Credits

Stanley Miller   Cover Design,Cover Art
Andy Johns   Mixing,Engineer
Bill Levenson   Producer,Reissue Supervisor
Chris Blackwell   Arranger
Joe Mauldin   Composer
Vartan   Art Direction
Jerry Allison   Composer
Rick Grech   Composer
Alan O'Duffy   Engineer
Margaret Goldfarb   Production Coordination
Bob Seidemann   Cover Photo,Photography,Cover Design
Eric Clapton   Composer
Sam Myers   Composer
Robert Stigwood   Arranger
Norman Petty   Composer
Buddy Holly   Composer
George Chkiantz   Engineer
Ginger Baker   Composer
Steve Winwood   Composer
Keith Harwood   Engineer
Jimmy Miller   Mixing,Producer
Suha Gur   Remastering