Blind Faith - Blind Faith

Although I'd been listening to music from an early age, my parents bought be "Squeeze Me Please Me" by Slade when I was, I think, six years old, one of the first genres/tribes that inspired me as  i approached my teens was Heavy Metal and Hard Rock with bands such as AC/DC, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden. I can't really remember how I got into this music, although I do remember seeing Judas Priests' video for "Breaking the Law" on Top of The Pops once. It was also a time, the late 70s/early 80s when there was a thing called "The New Wave of British Heavy Metal" just starting up which Iron Maiden and Def Lepard were part of.

Anyway, As I followed these bands via magazines like Kerrang and Sounds, I took note of the bands/artists that had influenced them, which is where I discovered bands like Cream, Led Zepplin, Deep Purple and, obviously, musicians like Eric Clapton ( I also took note of their influences from the Blues etc but that's for another post maybe).

One of the things I like about this period, the mid 60s to the mid 70s, is that artists appear to have been prepared to "up sticks" and move on to something new when they felt the need and be willing to collaborate. So Clapton went from the Yard Birds to the Blues Breakers to Cream and on. And Steve Winwood went from Spencer Davis to Traffic etc. Blind Faith, the band and the album came about, of course, as a consequence of that spirit of collaboration. 

I'd been aware of the album since I first got into listening to Eric Clapton but at the time I didn't dare buy it, my mother would have had a fit seeing the album cover! So it remained one of the albums i always intended to check out but never got round to it until a year or so ago.

Originally, I checked it out on Spotify and then downloaded it, where it lay unlistened to on my ipod until recently.

There are some really good songs on it and Steve Winwoods' voice is brilliant, sounding like a Brummy Ray Charles. My favourite track is "In The Presence of the Lord". I also like the cover of "Well Alright", originally by Buddy Holly, one of my favourite artist from the early days of Rock & Roll.