Blind Faith:

Blind Faith: (1969)

Blind Faith, a pesky "Super Group" made up of members of Cream and Traffic, except...this one works. At least for one album. This album also comes with a legendary controversy over its cover art. Hence the two different ones above. Americans have always been squeamish about nudity, our puritan genes running wild and such. So the record company stateside released the very vanilla cover art of the band sitting around. It was the naughty cover version that fell into my hands at the age of fourteen. All cover art aside, the music on this record overshadows any frivolous BS. I've always found Eric Clapton to work better as a sideman rather than a front, and here who better for him to side for than Steve Winwood. Those soaring vocals on Presence of The Lord, fucking awesome. The guitar exchanges between Winwood and Clapton are incredible. And then when you set all that on top of the Ginger Baker/Ric Grech rhythm section, off to the moon. Can't Find My Way Home is a key track for me, so gentle and understated.