Blind Faith

ブラインド・フェイスの唯一のアルバム『BLIND FAITH』がハーフ・スピードマスタリング版LPで再発!
元クリームのエリック・クラプトン、ジンジャー・ベイカー、元トラフィックのスティーヴ・ウィンウッド、元ファミリーのリック・グレッチから成る、有名バンド出身の大物ミュージシャンが一堂に会したスーパーグループ、ブラインド・フェイスの唯一のアルバム『BLINDFAITH』が、今回ハーフ・スピードマスタリング版LPで再リリース。このアルバムはアビイ・ロード・ロード・スタジオでマイルズ・ショーウェルによってマスタリングされた重量盤LP。特注ヴィニール・プレス仕様で最上級音質を保証。ハイスペック・パッケージ。

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. ~ Bruce Eder