BLIND FAITH LP (Eric Clapton/Stevie Winwood) 1st Proof

	£		239
	$		317

BLIND FAITH - BLIND FAITH

(Eric Clapton/Stevie Winwood/Rick Grech/Ginger Baker)

1ST PROOF PRESSING WITH WHITE LABELS

EXTREMELY RARE!!!!

Polydor 583 059  (Released in 1969)

Blind Faith's first and last album, now nearly 40 years old, 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. ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Record: EX (A few light surface marks...plays very well with a little surface noise on quieter passages)

Cover: VG (Overall a good, strong card cover (not laminated)/Has shelf-wear on all four edges but very evident on bottom edge where card has worn the most /Very slight corner creases top-right and bottom right/The front and back cover both have a 1st Proof sticker (the one on the front has been partially removed)/Gatefold sleeve has two red 1st Proof stamps on the inside pages.) Apart from the edge-wear this cover would be in Excellent (EX) condition.

Labels: Both are plain white (no writing, no stickers etc.)/a little spindle-wear evident

THIS IS A VERY RARE ITEM. IN OVER 40 YEARS OF BUYING & SELLING RECORDS I HAVE NOT COME ACROSS A 1ST PROOF ITEM RELATING TO BLIND FAITH.

GET THIS WHILE YOU CAN....IT MAY NEVER APPEAR AGAIN!!!!

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