Track Listing

1. Had to Cry Today
2. Can't Find My Way Home
3. Well...All Right - Blind Faith, Allison, Jerry
4. Presence of the Lord - Blind Faith, Clapton, Eric
5. Sea of Joy
6. Do What You Like - Blind Faith, Baker, Ginger

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #691 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.com
The short-lived classic-rock supergroup Blind Faith's sole album has aged remarkably well. In 1969, 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 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. This 2000 reissue of the album omits the unreleased jams and mixes that fill the second disc of the deluxe reissue that appeared earlier in the year. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

Classic album
This is a great album from the best supergroup of all time you will never get such a talented group of people together again the only shame is they only produced one album. Every track is different and it shows you the talent this group had, long live the Blind Faith the only true supergroup.

Almost as good as Cream,LOL.
Kinda hard to beat this album.Blind Faith released in 69 was the only album they ever released and thats allright because if Clapton and Winwood attempted to follow this up with a better album chances are they would have killed themselves in doing so.This doesn't sound like music by men living on the edge.It sounds like music made by men who actually jumped off over the edge and somehow made it back alive.CLASSIC stuff here.No surprise this was the first music project Clapton did after hearing Music from Big PInk by "The Band".He was inspired by them to make an album that meant more than being a guitar king.You can here the soul in the music.Although Clapton had not yet found confidence in his voice yet,I probably would trust Steve Winwood to get the job done too,ha ha.And he sure did.His vocal on "Had to Cry Today" nearly outshines the brilliant guitar interplay by himself and Clapton."Prescence of the Lord" may be the best song Eric ever wrote besides maybe"Layla" the next year.The guitar solo on it is insane.All and all a great album with even Ginger Bakers drum solo and Rick Gretch's violin solo contributing greatly to Eric and Stevies vision.Better than Cream,better than Beatles,better than a lot of stuff.But than again thats just my opinion.Watch Clapton's 2007 guitar festival if you want to see him and Stevie take another trip to the edge of existence by performing these timeless songs nearly 40 years later.Could not have been done better.I truly hope Clapton and Winwood will continue to play together and maybe record some more,they are an unbeatable duo.

A bit overrated
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.