Blind Faith Self Titled Year 1969 Vinyl Record. Album More Info Below

Description: Check Our Profile Page For More Cool Items. Blind Faithis the only studio album by the English supergroup Blind Faith, originally released in 1969 onPolydor Recordsin the United Kingdom and Europe and on ATCO Records in the United States. It topped the album charts in the UK, Canada and US, and was listed at No. 40 on the US Soul Albums chart. Released 9 August 1969 US And 22 August 1969 UK Recorded 20 February 28 June 1969 Studio Olympic, London Morgan, London Genre Psychedelic rock blues rock Length 42:01(original LP): 131:38 (CD deluxe edition) Label Polydor ProducerJimmy Miller The band contained two-thirds of the popularpower trioCream, inGinger BakerandEric Clapton, working in collaboration with British starSteve Winwoodofthe Spencer Davis GroupandTraffic, along withRic GrechofFamily. They began to work out songs early in 1969, and in February and March the group was atMorgan Studiosin London, preparing for the beginnings of basic tracks for their album, although the first few almost-finished songs did not show up until they were atOlympic Studiosin April and May under the direction of producerJimmy Miller.[5] The recording of their album was interrupted by a tour of Scandinavia, then a US tour from 11 July (Newport) to 24 August (Hawaii), supported byFree,TasteandDelaney & Bonnie and Friends. Although a chart topper, the LP was recorded hurriedly and side two consisted of just two songs, one of them a 15-minute jam entitled "Do What You Like". Nevertheless the band was able to produce two hits, Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home" and Clapton's "Presence of the Lord". The cover was a photo byBob Seidemannof a topless 11-year-old girl, Mariora Goschen,[7]holding a silver-painted model of an aircraft, sculpted for the album shoot by Mick Milligan.[8]The cover was mildly controversial in the British press , with some seeing the model airplane asphallic.[9][10]The American record company issued the album with an alternative cover, with a photograph of the band on the front, as well as the original cover. The cover art was created by Seidemann, a friend and former flatmate of Clapton, who is primarily known for his photos ofJanis Joplinand theGrateful Dead. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help selllithographicreprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image. The album was released on vinyl in 1969 onPolydor Recordsin the UK and Europe, and on Atco Records in the US. Polydor released a compact disc in 1986, adding two previously unreleased tracks, "Exchange and Mart" and "Spending All My Days", recorded by Ric Grech for an unfinished solo album, supported byGeorge Harrison,Denny Laine, andTrevor Burton.[13] An expanded edition of the album was released on 9 January 2001, with previously unreleased tracks and 'jams' included. The studio electric version of "Sleeping in the Ground" had previously been released on the four-disc boxed set for Clapton,Crossroads(released 1988, recorded 19631987, including several previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings). The bonus disc of jams does not include bassist Grech, who had yet to join the band, but includes a guest percussionist, Guy Warner. Two live tracks from the1969 Hyde Park concertnot included here, "Sleeping in the Ground" and a cover of "Under My Thumb", are also available on Winwood's four-disc retrospectiveThe Finer Things. Commercially,Blind Faithcharted at number one in both the US[18]and the UK.[19] The album met with a mixed response from critics. Reviewing in August 1969 forThe Village Voice,Robert Christgaufound none of the songs exceptional and said, "I'm almost sure that when I'm through writing this I'll put the album away and only play it for guests. Unless I want to hear Claptonhe is at his best here because he is kept in check by the excesses of Winwood, who is rapidly turning into the greatest wasted talent in music. There. I said it and I'm glad."[17]InRolling Stone, Ed Leimbacher said of the quality, "not as much as I'd hoped, yet better than I'd expected." His colleagues at the magazineLester Bangsand John Morthlandwere more impressed, especially Bangs in his appraisal of Clapton: "[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." Retrospective appraisals have been positive. According toStereo Reviewin 1988, "for 20 years this has been a cornerstone in any basic rock library." AllMusic's Bruce Eder regarded the album as "one of the jewels of the Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Ginger Baker catalogs". In 2016,Blind Faithwas ranked 14th onRolling Stone's list of "The 40 Greatest One Album Wonders", which described "Can't Find My Way Home" and "Presence of the Lord" as "incredible". eBay Store spinplay67

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