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Music CD - Blind Faith: Blind Faith
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Music CD: Blind Faith
Artist: Blind Faith
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $4.44
Your Save: $ 7.54 ( 63% )
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Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
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Tracks:
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1. Had To Cry Today
2. Can't Find My Way Home
3. Well All Right
4. Presence Of The Lord
5. Sea Of Joy
6. Do What You Like
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731453181823
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor / Umgd
Release Date: 2001-02-27
Studio: Polydor / Umgd
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Summary: Blind Faith CD
Comment: We have the original album, but it nice to have it on CD to preserve the old album. Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton! It just doesn't get much better than that! A timeless classic for any rockers collection.
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Summary: Are "Supergroups" Really All That Super?
Comment: Blind Faith is hailed as THE "supergroup" of the era. The performances on this record are excellent and the tunes are certainly above average, especially "Can't Find My Way Home" and "The Presence of The Lord". Naturally, one is want to compare this record to anything released by Cream, Traffic or Family. Unfortunately, this record is not greater than the combined value of the aforementioned, but rather an adequate compromise. The players are first-rate, but the LP simply doesn't live-up to the hype that has surrounded it since its release. The band itself fell apart under that weight. Still, this record has more to offer on the basis of the participants than many records by obscure artists. I guess it's all relative to notoriety.
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Summary: Worth owning
Comment: I recently lost about 400 CDs, 200 LPs, and countless cassettes and MP3s in a recent fire in my home. This was one of the very first CDs I just had to have to start my collection over again. I originally had this LP from probably the late 70s or early 80s when it was rereleased back then as I was only 4 years old when it first came out, unlike some of you old timers. I am proud to say it is still a great cornerstone to any music collection, even for us young whipper snappers.
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Summary: Never Again
Comment: Interesting reading the reviews. I wonder how many of the people who submitted reviews heard the album for the first time in 1969. You had to be there to appreciate the affect it had on you amid the tumultuous times. It is impossible to take these albums out of the times they were first heard. I admit I am biased because I heard the songs for the first time live, even though it was in Bridgeport, CT. Guess what I bought the next day, then the CD and then the MP3 for my iPod. While I'm in the middle of a workout at the gym listening to Blind Faith, my mind is in Bridgeport, CT, now that's what great music is all about and this group made a great album. Obviously, I'm not a music critic but I know what I like. Will a rap fan enjoy this CD? Probably not, but that's their loss.
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Summary: A once In A Lifetime Experience
Comment: Looking back at the summer of 1969, you'd have to say that there was indeed a bumper crop of classic rock albums. Let's see there was Workingman's Dead, which transitioned the Dead from psycadellic jug band to a new acoustic blues-folk-country genera that continued on into American Beauty. We got the amazing Soft Parade by The Doors in '69. Jethro Tull put out their debut album, the only recording with orginal Blodyn Pig guitarist Mick Abrams. Procol Harum signed on with A Salty Dog, a collection of dark broodong songs evoking "Tales Of The Ancient Mariner". There was the understated brilliance of Crosby Stills & Nash. Together or without Neil Young, this was the first edition of what would become one of Rock's most enduring super groups.
That brings us to rock's most ill-fated super group....Bind Faith. For my money this was the premire event in an all too brief period of unsurpassed classic rock releases. They became for me, a perfect blend of almost all the aforementioned classics. Winwood carried along the haunting bluesy vocals he perfected with Traffic and Clapton showed the world that he didn't need to extend guitar solos beyond the three minute mark to express heart-felt passion deep down to your toes.
So why did Blind Faith collapse in less than tweleve months? Clapton lends a lot of credence to the idea that Music From Big Pink by The Band opened his mind to a whole new "roots" sound. He wanted to get back to tight ensamble playing. It seems he wanted to capture a more understated and less in your face approach. And of course you can't argue with the man who brought us Layla. Winwood reformed Traffic, without Dave Mason and Baker went on to join the Airfore, Ginger Baker's Airforce of course.
It's cleched I know but Blind Faith really cements where I was and what I was at nineteen years old in that oh so wonderful, old, magical, whacky world of the summer of '69. I'll forever regret not joining my friends who hitch hiked from New York to Providence, RI to see Blind Faith in concert. If I had only known that it was to be a once in a lifetime Experience.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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
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