ERIC CLAPTON 1969 - Part 1 Blind Faith
	K E Y to releases: Regular Guest Appearance Bootleg Regular Bootleg Guest Appearance Related (no EC participation)

INDEX Tourography 1969

CONTENTS

BRITISH SUPER SHOW '69 - Various Artists
THE MORGAN REHEARSALS - Blind Faith
WE'LL ALL RIGHT - Blind Faith
BLIND FAITH - Blind Faith
THAT'S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT - Billy Preston
STEPPING STONES PARTS 1 & 2 - Cream/Blind Faith
GOTHENBURG 1969 - Blind Faith
WINWOOD - Steve Winwood
THE FINER THINGS - Steve Winwood
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FINER THINGS - Steve Winwood
BLIND DOMINOES - Blind Faith/Derek & The Dominos
SEA OF BLUES - Blind Faith/Derek & The Dominos
CROSSROADS - Blind Faith
RECORDED ALONG THE US TOUR - Blind Faith
SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE - Blind Faith
CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME - Blind Faith
AIRFORCE - Ginger Baker
DO WHAT YOU LIKE - Ginger Baker

LP Tracks:
Side 1 -
1. Love Potion
2. Under The Jasmine Tree
3. Mary Had A Little Lamb
4. Primitive Ohio
5. Dazed & Confused
6. Hoochie Coochie Man
7. Debut
   Side 2 -
8. Cheating On My Baby Texas Blues
9. Stormy Monday Blues
10. Kansas City
11. My Time After A While
12. Slat 27 - [sic: entitled Slate 27]
13. Eric Rudy's Blues
14. Song Of The End Of The Show

Buddy Miles - vocals (1,7-10), drums (1,7-9,11), guitar (10)
Stephen Stills - guitar (1,11)
Buddy Guy - vocals (2,3), guitar (2-8,13,14)
Glen Campbell - steel guitar (7,8)
Eric Clapton - guitar (12-14)
Led Zeppelin:
Jimmy Page - guitar (4-6)
Robert Plant - vocals (4-6)
John Paul Jones - bass (4-6)
John Bonham - drums (4-6)

Japanese Bootleg w/ deluxe brown cover.
1986 - home video release by Virgin as Supershow.
Tracks 12 & 14 can also be found on the compilation SONGS I FORGOT- Eric Clapton.

CD Tracks:
1. Jam #1
2. Jam #2
3. Jam #3
4. Jam #4
5. Jam #5
6. Jam #6
7. Jam #7
8. Jam #8
9. Jam #9
10. Well Alright #1
11. Well Alright #2
12. Well Alright #3
13. Well Alright #4
14. Well Alright #5
15. Well Alright #6
16. Well Alright #7
17. Hey Joe #1
18. Hey Joe #2
19. Jam #10
20. Well Alright #11
21. Well Alright #12
22. Jam #11
23. Jam #12
24. Jam #13
25. Jam #14
26. Jam #15
27. Jam #16

Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

• "We'll All Right" - Capricorn Records - CR-2020
  

CD Tracks:
1. Well Alright
2. Untitled #1
3. Sleeping in the Ground
4. Untitled #2
5. Well Alright
6. Untitled Blues #1
7. Sea of Joy
8. Untitled #1
9. Well Alright
10. Under My Thumb
11. Key To The Highway
12. Untitled Blues #2
13. Well Alright

The live portion was from Blind Faith's debut concert, a free event at London's Hyde Park with over 100,000 attendees estimated.
Said the ever introspective Clapton afterwards:
"I came offstage at that Hyde Park concert shaking like a leaf because I'd let people down."
- Turner; Conversations with Eric Clapton.

Less than a month later (5 July 1969) at this same location, the Rolling Stones would debut their new band lineup with Mick Taylor (former Bluesbreaker) on guitar.

• "The Morgan Rehearsals" - lun - BL121391
  
• "God is Good" - ARMS - ARMS 24
  
• "Blind Dominoes" - Keep On Keeping On Music - KOKO-003
  
• "Genuine Crossroads" - Stonewall - CD3139/40
  

LP & CD Tracks:
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

Import CD Tracks:
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
7. Exchange and Mart
8. Spending all my days

Eric Clapton - vocals, guitar
Steve Winwood - vocals, piano, bass
Rick Gretch - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

Denny Laine
George Harrison
Trevor Burton

A 1986 CD release of this album included two bonus tracks, the instrumental "Exchange And Mart" and "Spending All My Days", that were not previously released and were omitted from subsequent CD releases. The tracks were recorded at the Morgan Studios in October 1969, after the Blind Faith American tour, for a Rick Grech solo project. Eric Clapton, Denny Laine, George Harrison and Trevor Burton took part in the session, and the CD credits Clapton-Winwood-Grech-Baker for the song writing on both tracks.

Rolling Stone
"...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..."
-Lester Bangs
Rolling Stone 9/6/69, p.27


CD Now
BLIND FAITH scored a hit with their evocative acoustic ballad "Can't Find My Way Home," featuring Winwood's raspy falsetto, Clapton's pungent classical guitar and Baker's pulsing brush work. But then, every song on BLIND FAITH has become an FM radio staple, from Clapton's fervent vocals on "Presence Of The Lord" to his dense multi-tracked blues leads on "Had To Cry Today;" from the jacked up rockabilly of Buddy Holly's "Well Alright" to the jazzy blowing on Baker's "Do What You Like." But the band never had a reality outside the studio and after Blind Faith folded, Winwood and Grech joined Baker's Airforce before re-forming Traffic; and Clapton began moving away from extended improvisations into more tightly structured song forms on his first solo album ERIC CLAPTON, then with Derek & The Dominos.


American Music Guide
More than a quarter century after the release of {Blind Faith}'s first and last album, all the stories of hype and manipulation pall before the album's enduring appeal. {Steve Winwood} is especially impressive, contributing three compositions--"Had to Cry Today," "Can't Find My Way Home," and "Sea of Joy"--that continue to rank among his best, and singing with his usual soulfulness. {Eric Clapton}'s "Presence of the Lord" is also a perennial in his repertoire, and his guitar playing throughout the record is distinctive and impressive. If {Ginger Baker} overplays somewhat for contemporary tastes (especially on his 15-minute showcase, "Do What You Like"), late-'60s tastes were more accommodating, and {Baker} nevertheless demonstrates why he is among the handful of great drummers in rock. And whatever you think of the hype, the album was a notable success.
~ William Ruhlmann, All-Music Guide

The original UK cover with the nude pre-teen girl was considered too blatant for the sedate American Market as was replaced with a brown cover depicting a photo of the group. Considering the times, it was 'much ado about nothing' and is nowadays considered quite tame. The CD version is found as the original "nude" cover version. - JCH

A very comprehensive listing of Blind Faith and other Steve Winwood/Traffic releases (including different country versions, singles, etc) can be found at Steve Winwood's Fan Site

Story of cover from Bob Seidemann's (photographer) perspective:

...I was being on the "scene" because it was happening. It was ground zero of the cultural revolution. How I managed it was by producing a handful of photographs for a small poster company I was a partner in. The company was founded by a raving poet with a hundred dollars and a picture of the face of Christ, supposedly an impression on the veil of Mary Magdalene. His name is Louis Rapoport, today he is news editor of the "Jerusalem Post". It was our first poster and it was a hit. My work consisted at the beginning of pictures of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. They were impressionistic and successful.
...
I called Eric Clapton in London to ask if he would put me up for a while. He did. I stayed at his flat in Chelsea with a wild crowd of ravers. The party had been going on for some time when I arrived. Other residents of the never-ending, day-for-night, multi-colored fling were Martin Sharp, a graphic artist and poet with an uncanny resemblance to Peter O'Toole, and the wildest of ravers, Philippe Mora, a young filmmaker who looked like a cherry Peter Lorre, and their handsome girlfriends. I bunked on a ledge under a skylight in the living room. All of the London scene came through. It was wild and wooly.

A year passed and I had my own room in a basement flat in the same part of town with another bunch of ravers. The phone rang. It was Robert Stigwood's office, Clapton's manager. Cream was over and Eric was putting a new band together. The fellow on the phone asked if I would make a cover for the new unnamed group. This was big time. It seems though the western world had for lack of a more substantial icon, settled on the rock and roll star as the golden calf of the moment. The record cover had become the place to be seen as an artist.

I could not get my hands on the image until out of the mist a concept began to emerge. To symbolize the achievement of human creativity and its expression through technology a space ship was the material object. To carry this new spore into the universe innocence would be the ideal bearer, a young girl, a girl as young as Shakespeare's Juliet. The space ship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.

The space ship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the Royal College of Art. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. It was the beginning of the transition from girl to woman, that is what I was after. That temporal point, that singular flare of radiant innocence. Where is that girl?

I was riding the London Tube on the way to Stigwood's office to expose Clapton's management to this revelation when the subway doors opened and she stepped into the car. She was wearing a school uniform, plaid skirt, blue blazer, white socks and ball point pen drawings on her hands. It was as though the air began to crackle with an electrostatic charge. She was buoyant and fresh as the morning air.

I must have looked like something out of Dickens. Somewhere between Fagan, Quasimodo, Albert Einstein and John the Baptist. The car was full of passengers. I approached her and said that I would like her to pose for a record cover for Eric Clapton's new band. Everyone in the car tensed up.

She said, "Do I have to take off my clothes?" My answer was yes. I gave her my card and begged her to call. I would have to ask her parent's consent if she agreed. When I got to Stigwood's office I called the flat and said that if this girl called not to let her off the phone without getting her phone number. When I returned she had called and left her number.

Stanley Mouse, my close friend and one of the five originators of psychedelic art in San Francisco was holed up at the flat. He helped me make a layout and we headed out to meet with the girl's parents.

It was a Mayfair address. This was a swank part of town, class in the English sense of the word.
...
Mouse and I made our presentation, I told my story, the parents agreed. The girl on the tube train would not be the one, she was shy, she had just passed the point of complete innocence and could not pose. Her younger sister had been saying the whole time, "Oh Mommy, Mommy, I want to do it, I want to do it." She was glorious sunshine. Botticelli's angel, the picture of innocence, a face which in a brief time could launch a thousand space ships.

We asked her what her fee should be for modeling, she said a young horse. Stigwood bought one for her. I called the image "Blind Faith" and Clapton made that the name of his band. When the cover was shown in the trades it hit the market like a runaway train, causing a storm of controversy. At one point the record company considered not releasing the cover at all. It was Eric Clapton who fought for it. It was Eric who elected to not print the name of the band on the cover. This had never been done before. The name was printed on the wrapper, when the wrapper came off, so did the type.

This was an image created out of ferment and storm, out of revolution and chaos. It was an image in the mind of one who strove for that moment of glory, that blinding flash of singular inspiration. To etch an image on a stone in our cultural wall with the hope that the wall will last. To say with his heart and his eyes, at a time when it mattered, this is what I feel. It was created out of and a wish for a new beginning. It was created out of hope and a wish for a new beginning. Innocence propelled by BLIND FAITH.

Originally from an advert to sell lithographs at this site
(c) 1996-98 Frames Direct Inc.

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THAT'S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT - Billy Preston
April 1969 Trident Studios
Released June 1969
Capitol Apple UK: CD SAPCOR 9; CDP 7975802 UK CD 1991

CD Tracks:
1. Do What You Want 3:41
   
2. I Want To Thank You 3:10
   
3. Everything's All Right 2:41
   
4. She Belongs To Me 4:06
   
5. It Doesn't Matter 2:39
   
6. Morning Star 3:16
   
7. Hey Brother 2:31
   
8. What About You? 2:07
   
9. Let Us All Get Together Right Now 4:06This Is It 2:42
   
10. Keep It To Yourself 2:35
    
11. That's The Way God Planned it (Parts 1 & 2) 5:32
    
12. Through All Times 3:57 (CD bonus)
    
13. As I Get Older 3:40 (CD bonus)
    
14. That's The Way God Planned It (alternate) 4:13 (CD bonus)
    

Producer - George Harrison, Wayne Schuler (2,7,11,13), Ray Charles(14)
Engineer - Glyn Johns (remix)

Personnel:

Tracks 1,12 -
Billy Preston - keyboards, vocals
Eric Clapton - guitar
George Harrison - guitar
Keith Richards - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

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STEPPING STONES Parts 1 & 2 - Cream/Blind Faith
Silver Rarities - SIRA 23/24 (1993) GERMANY

October 18, 1968 - Cream - LA Forum, Los Angeles, CA(1-6)
June 13, 1969 - Blind Faith - Gothenburg, Sweden(7-15)
Total Time - xx:xx/56:49

CD1 Tracks: -
1. White Room
2. Politician
3. I'm So Glad
4. Sitting on Top of the World
5. Crossroads
6. Sunshine of Your Love
7. Well Alright
8. Sleeping on the Ground
9. Sea of Joy
   CD2 Tracks: -
10. Under My Thumb
11. Can't Find My Way Home
12. Do What You Like
13. Presence of the Lord
14. Means To An End
15. Had to Cry Today

Personnel:

Tracks 1-6 (Cream)
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Jack Bruce - bass, harmonica, vocals
Ginger Baker - drums

Tracks 7-15 (Blind Faith):
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

See also: "Gothenburg 1969" - Moby Dick - MD 003

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GOTHENBURG 1969 - Blind Faith
Moby Dick - MD 003

June 13, 1969 - Blind Faith - Gothenburg, Sweden(7-15)
Total Time - 65:22

CD1 Tracks: -
1. Sleeping on the Ground
2. Sea of Joy
3. Under My Thumb
4. Can't Find My Way Home
5. Do What you Like
6. Presence of the Lord
7. Had to Cry Today

Personnnel:

Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

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WINWOOD - Steve Winwood - 4CD set
United Artists 9964 (2LP set)
Original Release Date: 1972
Total Time - xx:xx/xx:xx

LP Tracks:

1. Keep On Running - Spencer Davis Group
2. Somebody Help me - Spencer Davis Group
3. Goodbye Stevie - Spencer Davis Group
4. Cross Roads - Powerhouse
5. Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group
6. I'm a Man - Spencer Davis Group
7. Can't Get Enough of It - Spencer Davis Group
8. Stevie's Blues - Spencer Davis Group
9. Paper Sun - Traffic
10. Heaven Is In Your Mind - Traffic
11. Coloured Rain - Traffic
12. Dear Mr Fantasy - Traffic
13. Smiling Phases - Traffic
14. Dealer - Traffic
15. Medicated Goo - Traffic
16. Forty Thousand Headmen - Traffic
17. Vagabond Virgin - Traffic
18. Sea of Joy - Blind Faith
19. Empty Pages - Traffic
20. Stranger to Himself - Traffic
21. Freedom Rider - Traffic

Personnel:

Spencer Davis Group
Spencer Davis - vocals, guitar
Steve Winwood - guitar, keyboard, vocals
Muff Winwood - bass
Pete York - drums

Powerhouse
Steve Winwood - keyboards, vocals
Eric Clapton - guitar
Jack Bruce - bass
Peter York - drums
Paul Jones - harmonica
Ben Palmer - piano

Traffic 1
Steve Winwood - keyboards, vocals, guitar
Jim Capaldi - drums
Chris Wood - flute, saxophones
Dave Mason - guitar, vocals

Blind Faith
Steve Winwood - keyboards, guitar, vocals
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Rick Grech - bass, electric violin
Ginger Baker - drums

Traffic 2
Steve Winwood - keyboards, guitar, vocals
Jim Capaldi - drums
Chris Wood - flute, saxophones

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THE FINER THINGS - Steve Winwood - 4CD set
Date: 03/21/95
Label: PGD/POLYGRAM POP/JAZZ
Original Release Date: 1995
Includes 48 Page Booklet
Total Time - xx:xx/xx:xx/xx:xx/xx:xx

CD1 Tracks:

1. Dimples - The Spencer Davis Group
2. I Can't Stand It - The Spencer Davis Group
3. Every Little Bit Hurts - The Spencer Davis Group
4. Strong Love - The Spencer Davis Group
5. Keep On Running - The Spencer Davis Group
6. Somebody Help Me - The Spencer Davis Group
7. When I Come Home - The Spencer Davis Group
8. I Want To Know - Eric Clapton And The Powerhouse
9. Crossroads - Eric Clapton And The Powerhouse
10. Gimme Some Lovin' - The Spencer Davis Group
11. I'm A Man - The Spencer Davis Group
12. Paper Sun - Traffic
13. Dealer - Traffic
14. Coloured Rain - Traffic
15. No Face, No Name, No Number - Traffic
16. Heaven Is In Your Mind - Traffic
17. Smiling Phases - Traffic
18. Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic
19. Pearly Queen - Traffic
20. Forty Thousand Headmen - Traffic
21. No Time To Live - Traffic
22. Shanghai Noodle Factory - Traffic
23. Medicated Goo - Traffic
24. Withering Tree - Traffic
    CD2 Tracks:
    
25. Had To Cry Today - Blind Faith
26. Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith (electric version, previously unreleased)
27. Sea Of Joy - Blind Faith
28. Sleeping In The Ground - Blind Faith (live, previously unreleased)
29. Under My Thumb - Blind Faith (live, previously unreleased)
30. Stranger To Himself - Traffic
31. John Barleycorn - Traffic
32. Glad - Traffic
33. Freedom Rider - Traffic
34. Empty Pages - Traffic
35. Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys - Traffic
36. Rainmaker - Traffic
    CD3 Tracks:
    
37. Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory - Traffic
38. (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired - Traffic (live)
39. Happy Vibes - Winwood/Kabaka/Amao
40. Something New - Traffic
41. Dream Gerrard - Traffic
42. Walking In The Wind - Traffic
43. When The Eagle Flies - Traffic
44. Winner/Loser - Stomu Yamashta's Go
45. Crossing The Line - Stomu Yamashta's Go (live)
46. Hold On
47. Time Is Running Out
48. Vacant Chair
    CD4 Tracks:
    
49. While You See A Chance
50. Arc Of A Diver
51. Spanish Dancer
52. Night Train
53. Dust
54. Valerie
55. Talking Back To The Night
56. Your Silence Is Your Song
57. Higher Love
58. Freedom Overspill
59. Back In The High Life Again
60. The Finer Things
61. Roll With it
62. Don't You Know What The Night Can Do?
63. One And Only Man

Recorded between 1964 and 1990. Includes a 48-page booklet with liner notes by John McDermott.
Engineers: Brian Humphries (disc 1, tracks 5-6; disc 2, tracks 7-12; disc 3, track 2); Brian Humphries, Eddie Kramer (disc 1, track 10); Eddie Kramer (disc 1, tracks 11-20, 24); Glyn Johns (disc 1, tracks 21, 23); Andy Johns (disc 1, track 22; disc 2, tracks 1-3, 6); Jerry Masters, Steve Melton (disc 3, track 1); Steve Winwood (disc 3, track 3; disc 4, tracks 1-8); Brian Humphries, Nobby Clarke (disc 3, tracks 4-7); Phil Brown, Robert Ash (disc 3, track 8); Robert Ash (disc 3, track 9); Phil Brown (disc 3, tracks 10-12); Tom Lord Alge, Jason Corsaro (disc 4, tracks 9-12); Tom Lord Alge (disc 4, tracks 13-15)

Producers: Chris Blackwell (disc 1, tracks 1-3, 5-7); Harold Robinson (disc 1, track 4); Jac Holzman (disc 1, tracks 8-9); Chris Blackwell, Jimmy Miller (disc 1, track 10); Jimmy Miller (disc 1, tracks 11-24; disc 2, tracks 1-3); Guy Stevens (disc 2, track 6); Chris Blackwell, Steve Winwood (disc 2, tracks 7-12; disc 3, tracks 2, 10-12); Steve Winwood (disc 3, tracks 1, 3; disc 4, tracks 1-8, 15); Traffic (disc 3, tracks 4-7); Dennis McKay, Stomu Yamashta (disc 3, track 8); Stomu Yamashta (disc 3, track 9); Russ Titelman, Steve Winwood (disc 4, tracks 9-12); Steve Winwood, Tom Lord Alge (disc 4, tracks 13-14)

Compilation producers: Bill Levenson, Trevor Wyatt

Personnel -

• Steve Winwood Band:
  Steve Winwood - vocals, various instruments
  Paul Pesco, Al DiMeola, Nile Rodgers, Junior Marvin, Eddie Martinez - guitar
  Joe Walsh - slide guitar
  George Young - alto saxophone
  Bob Mintzer, Andrew Love - tenor saxophone
  Lewis Del Gatto - baritone & tenor saxophones
  Wayne Jackson - trumpet, trombone
  Stomu Yamashta - piano, percussion
  Mike Lawler - keyboards
  Rob Mounsey - synthesizer
  Alan Spenner, Willie Weeks - bass
  Steve Ferrone, John Susswell, Michael Shrieve, John Robinson - drums
  Carole Steele - congas, percussion
  Brother James, Bashiri Johnson - percussion
  James Taylor, Tessa Niles - background vocals
  
• Spencer Davis Group:
  Spencer Davis - vocals, guitar
  Steve Winwood - vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, organ, keyboards, percussion
  Muff Winwood - vocals, bass
  Pete York - drums
  
• Blind Faith:
  Steve Winwood - vocals, guitar, piano, organ
  Eric Clapton - guitar
  Rick Grech - violin, bass
  Ginger Baker - drums, percussion
  
• Traffic includes:
  Steve Winwood - vocals, various instruments
  Dave Mason - vocals, guitar, sitar, harmonica, organ, bass
  Chris Wood - vocals, flute, saxophone, organ, bass, percussio
  n Jim Capaldi - vocals, drums, percussion
  Rick Grech - violin, bass
  Rosko Gee, David Hood - bass
  Jim Gordon, Roger Hawkins - drums
  Reebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
  

Reviews -

CD Now


Rolling Stone
"...Given the breadth of his career, the surprising thing about Steve Winwood's THE FINER THINGS is its consistency....Some very fine things indeed..."
Rolling Stone 4/6/95, p.62


Entertainment Weekly
"...This four-disc retrospective covers blue-eyed soul man Winwood's stints with the Spencer Davis Group, several incarnations of Traffic, and Stomu Yamashta's Go....this is still one of those rare sets where the wheat outweighs the chaff..."
- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly 4/28/95, p.64


Jazziz
"...this is a true career retrospective, and one that shows Winwood to be an innovator, exceptional vocalist, consistent songwriter, and pop artist who did much with blues, R&B, folk, jazz, and other non-pop styles."
Jazziz 10/95, p.102


American Music Guide
{Steve Winwood} has led a long and varied career, recording everything from straight R&B and jazz-flavored rock to folk and pop. Over the course of four discs, =The Finer Things= chronicles the entirety of his career, beginning with {The Spencer Davis Group}, through {Traffic} and {Blind Faith,} right until his successful solo career. It includes all of the hits and many of his finest album tracks, yet the overall approach is rather exhausting -- the rarities are rarely illuminating, they're just there for the sake of being there. Nevertheless, it is a worthwhile purchase for anyone wanting a comprehensive picture of {Winwood} in all of his various guises.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All-Music Guide

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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FINER THINGS - Steve Winwood - 1 CD

Total Time - xx:xx

CD Tracks:

11. Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith (electric version, previously unreleased)
12. & others

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BLIND DOMINOES - Blind Faith/Derek & The Dominos
Keep On Keeping On Music - KOKO-003 (1994) GERMANY

June 7, 1969 - Hyde Park, London, UK (1-4)
November 11, 1970 - Johnny Cash TV Show, Nashville, TN(5-10)
September 22, 1970 - Paris, France(11)
October 29, 1970 - Klinehalls, Buffalo, NY(12)
Total Time - xx:xx

CD Tracks:
1. Well Alright
2. Sea of Joy
3. Sleeping in the Ground
4. Under Me Thumb
5. It's Too Late
6. Got To Get Better in a Little While
7. Matchbox #1
8. Matchbox #2
9. Matchbox #3
10. Blues Power
11. It's My Life Baby
12. Got to Get Better in a Little While

Personnel:

Tracks 1-4(Blind Faith)-
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

Tracks 5-12(Derek & The Dominos)-
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Bobby Whitlock - keyboards, vocals
Carl Radle - bass
Jim Gordon - drums
with:
Johnny Cash - guitar, vocals (7-9)
Carl Perkins - guitar, vocals (7-9)
Buddy Guy - guitar (11)
Junior Wells - harmonica, vocals (11)

Notes:

The band name, 'Dominos', is mis-spelled as 'Dominoes' in the title of the CD.
Tracks 1-4 run fast (R.B.)

See also:

• "God is Good" - ARMS - ARMS 24
  
• "We'll All Right" - Capricorn Records - CR-2020
  
• "Genuine Crossroads" - Stonewall - CD3139/40
  
• "Cash Perk(in)s" - World Production of Compact Music - WPOCM 1190 D 061-2
  
• "Layla and Other Assorted Unreleased Songs" - Yellow Dog - YD 040
  
• "Cash Perk(in)s" - Black Panther - BP083
  

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CROSSROADS - Blind Faith
Why Not - WNCD 003 (1989) ITALY

August 16, 1969 - Fairgrounds Arena, Santa Barbara, CA
Total Time - 36:07

CD Tracks:
1. Crossroads
2. Presence of the Lord
3. Means to an End
4. Can't Find My Way Home
5. Had to Cry Today

Personnel:

Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

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RECORDED ALONG THE US TOUR - Blind Faith
The Amazing Kornyphone Record Label - TAKRL 1902 (197x) US

?/?/? - Unknown venue
6 tracks on 1 LP.

CD Tracks:
1. Crossroads
2. Presence Of The Lord
3. Means to An End
4. Well Alright
5. Can't Find My Way Home
6. Had to Cry Today

Notes:

I strongly suspect that this is merely a copy of the "Crossroads" CD outlined above. Until this is proven, however, I have given "US Tour" its own entry. Be Warned! (J.M.) I strongly suspect that this isn't even a CD, but only ever released on LP! (R.B.-Bootography)

Personnel:

Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

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SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE - Blind Faith
EC in Person - EIP 022 (1995)

August 8, 1969 - Hemisfair Arena, San Antonio, TX
Total Time - 71:27

CD Tracks:
1. Well Alright
2. Can't Find My Way Home
3. Had To Cry Today
4. Sleeping in the Ground
5. Crossroads
6. Presence of the Lord
7. Sea of Joy
8. Do What You Like
9. Sunshine of Your Love

Personnel:

Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

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CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME - LAST CONCERT - Blind Faith
Red Light - RL1003 (199x)
August 8, 1969 - UCLA Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA
Total Time - 55:08

CD Tracks:
1. Can't Find My Way Home
2. Had to Cry Today
3. Untitled
4. Crossroads
5. Presence of the Lord
6. Means to an End
7. Do What You Like

Personnel:

Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, vocals
Rick Grech - bass
Ginger Baker - drums

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AIRFORCE - Ginger Baker
Atco 2LP

Polydor 2662 001 LP
Polydor 837 349-2 CD [1970]
2LP on 1 CD (less one track "Doing It")
Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Total Time - xx:xx

CD Tracks:
1. Da Da Man - 7:15
2. Early In The Morning - 11:13
3. Don't Care - 12:29
4. Toad - 12:59
5. Aiko Biaye - 13:01
6. Man Of Constant Sorrow - 3:57
7. Do What You Like - 11:47
8. Doing It - (LP Only)

Producer - Jimmy Miller
Engineer - Andrew Johns
Asst. Engineer - George Chkiantz

Personnel:

Ginger Baker - drums
Steve Winwood - vocals & organ
Jeanette Jacobs - vocals
Denny Laine - guitar, vocals (6)
Chris Wood - tenor sax & flute
Rick Grech - bass & violin
Remi Kabaka - drums
Graham Bond - alto sax
Harold McNair - tenor sax & flute
Phil Seamen - percussion

Notes:

Blind Faith live minus EC. It's all here but the fire...
Still an interesting performance of yet another "supergroup". The missing LP track later re-surfaces on the compilation "Do What You Like".

Reviews

Wilson & Alroys Record Reviews
A double-album-on-one-CD live performance that features a weird mix of Traffic minus Capaldi (Winwood, Wood),Blind Faith minus Clapton (Baker, Grech), and a million guests - a horn section, female backup singer, percussionist, and guitarist (Denny Laine, who later spent ten years as Paul McCartney's Wings alter-ego). It's a catastrophe, with Baker pushing his jam-like-crazy philosophy on the flawed assumption that this is what made Cream so successful. The only short track ("Man Of Constant Sorrow") is a middling Denny Laine number; most of the rest is pseudo-jazzy free-form junk that just highlights Clapton's absence (Cream's "Toad"; Blind Faith's "Do What You Like"; etc.) and makes you wish that Winwood would step in and take control (he doesn't). (JA)

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DO WHAT YOU LIKE - Ginger Baker

PGD/POLYGRAM POP/JAZZ CD
Date: 07/07/98 Total time - xx:xx/xx:xx

CD1 Tracks:
1. Da Da Man
2. Early In The Morning
3. Don't Care
4. Toad
5. Aiko Biaye
6. Man Of Constant Sorrow
7. Do What You Like
8. Doin' It
   CD2 Tracks:
9. Man Of Constant Sorrow
10. Let Me Ride
11. Sweet Wine
12. Do U No Hu Yor Phrenz R?
13. We Free Kings
14. I Don't Want To Go On Without You
15. Toady
16. 12 Gates Of The City
17. Sunshine Of Your Love
18. Ariwo
19. Tiwa (It's Our Own)
20. Something Nice
21. Ju Ju
22. Blood Brothers 69
23. Coda

Notes -

DO WHAT YOU LIKE contains 3 LPs on 2 CDs:
GINGER BAKER'S AIR FORCE - 1970
GINGER BAKER'S AIR FORCE 2 - 1970
GINGER BAKER STRATAVARIOUS - 1972.

Producers - Ginger Baker, Jimmy Miller
Compilation producer - Bill Levenson
Engineers - Roy Thomas Baker, Andrew Johns, George Chkiantz
Liner notes - John McDermott

Personnel:

Ginger Baker - vocals, drums, percussion, tympani, tubular bells, African drums
Remi Kabaka (Rebop) - drums
Sandra Danielle, Aliki Ashamn, Catherine James, Diane Stewart, Jeanette Jacobs - vocals
Ken Craddock - vocals, guitar, piano, organ
Bobby Gass - vocals, guitar, bass
Denny Laine - vocals, guitar
Graham Bond - vocals, alto saxophone, piano, organ
Bud Beadle - tenor saxophone, flute
Fela Ransome-Kuti - vocals, piano, organ, percussion
Steve Winwood - vocals, organ
Bobby Gass - guitar
Rich Grech - violin, bass
Harold McNair - alto & tenor saxophone, flute & alto flute
Chris Wood - tenor saxophone, flute
Colin Gibson - bass
Neemoi Acquaye - African drums, percussion
Alhari Brimar, Phil Seamen, Rocky Dzidzornu - percussion

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John Hamilton

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