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| Name = Blind Faith
| Type = Studio album {{Infobox album
| Artist = ] | name = Blind Faith
| Cover = BlindFaithBlindFaith.jpg | type = studio
| Released = August, 1969 | artist = ]
| cover = BlindFaithBlindFaith.jpg
| Recorded = February 20-June 24, 1969
| alt = a topless pubescent girl, holding in her hands a stylized silver aircraft
| Genre = ], ], ], ]
| released = 9 August 1969 (US)<ref>{{cite periodical |title=Album Reviews |periodical=Cash Box|date=August 9, 1969 |page=42 |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1969/CB-1969-08-09.pdf |access-date=15 September 2021}}</ref><br />22 August 1969 (UK)<ref>{{cite periodical |title=Album Reviews |periodical=Melody Maker|date=August 23, 1969 |page=18 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Melody-Maker/60s/69/Melody-Maker-1969-0823.pdf |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>
| Length = 42:12
| recorded = 20 February – 28 June 1969
| Label = ] U.K./Canada
| studio =
] U.S.
*], London
| Producer = ]
*], London
| Reviews =
| genre =
* ] {{Rating|4|5}}
* ]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/artist/blind-faith/ |title=Blind Faith|author=uDiscover Team |date=11 February 2020 |publisher=uDiscover Music|access-date=January 2, 2022 }}</ref>
* ] (B)
* ]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-top-30-british-blues-rock-albums-of-all-time|title= The Top 30 British Blues Rock Albums Of All Time|date= 23 March 2007|magazine= ]|access-date= 1 September 2018}}</ref>
| Misc = {{Extra chronology 2
| Artist = ] | length = 42:01
| Type = Studio album | label = ]
| producer = ]
| Last album = '']''<br /> by <br />] <br /> (1969)
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| This album = '''''Blind Faith'''''<br />(1969)
| Next album = '']'' <br />by<br /> ]<br /> (1970) | artist = ]
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| year = 1969
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'''''Blind Faith''''' is the ] album by the British ] ], which consisted of ] (], ]), ] (], ]), ] (], ]) and ] (]).


'''''Blind Faith''''' is the only studio album by the English ] ], originally released in 1969 on ] in the United Kingdom and Europe and on ] in the United States. It topped the album charts in the UK, Canada and ], and was listed at No. 40 on the US ]. It has been certified ] by the ].
There was an intense buzz about the band and its debut album ''Blind Faith'', which on release topped '']'''s Pop Albums chart in America (as it did the UK and Canadian charts) and peaked at #40 on the Black Albums chart, an impressive feat for a British rock quartet. In addition, '']'' published three reviews of the album in their September 6, 1969 issue, which were written by Ed Leimbacher, ], and John Morthland.


== Background ==
They began to work out songs early in 1969, and in February and March the group was in London at ], preparing for the beginnings of basic tracks for their album, although the first few almost finished songs didn't show up until they were at ] in April and May under the direction of producer ]. The music community was already aware of the linkup, despite Clapton's claim that he was cutting an album of his own on which Winwood would play. The rock press wasn't buying any of it, knowing that Baker was involved as well, and then the promoters and record companies got involved, pushing those concerned for an album and a tour.
The band contained two-thirds of the popular ] ], in ] and ], working in collaboration with British star ] of ] and ], along with ] of ]. They began to work out songs early in 1969, and in February and March the group was at ] in London, although the first few almost-finished songs did not show up until they were at ] in April and May under the direction of producer ].<ref name=black>{{cite magazine|title=Born Under A Bad Sign|first=Johnny|last=Black|magazine=Mojo|date=June 1996|pages=47–52|url=http://www.gingerbaker.com/bands/blind-faith.htm}}</ref>


The recording of their album was interrupted by such a tour of Scandinavia, then a U.S. tour from July 11 (Newport) to August 24 (Hawaii), supported by ], ] and ]. Although a chart topper the LP was recorded hurriedly and side two consisted of just two songs, one of them a 15-minute jam entitled "Do What You Like." Nevertheless the band was able to produce two classic hits, Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home" and Clapton's "Presence of the Lord". The recording of their album was interrupted by a tour of Scandinavia, then a US tour from 11 July (Newport) to 24 August (Hawaii), supported by ], ] and ]. Although a chart topper, the LP was recorded hurriedly and side two consisted of just two songs, one of them a 15-minute jam entitled "Do What You Like". Nevertheless, the band produced two hits, Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home" and Clapton's "Presence of the Lord".<ref name=black/><ref>{{cite book|last=Welch|first=Chris|title=Clapton – Updated Edition: The Ultimate Illustrated History|publisher=Voyageur Press|year=2016|isbn= 978-0-760-35019-5|pages=132–141}}</ref>


== Album cover ==
An expanded, deluxe edition of the album was released in 2001, with previously unreleased tracks and 'jams' included. Two live tracks from the Hyde Park concert, ''Sleeping In The Ground'' by Sam Myers and the ] song "Under My Thumb" are also available on Winwood's 4-CD retrospective ''The Finer Things''.
The cover was a photo by ] of a topless 11-year-old girl, Mariora Goschen,<ref name=bestcovers/> holding a silver-painted model of an aircraft, sculpted for the album shoot by Mick Milligan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21948/lot/192/|title= Blind Faith: The Prop Aircraft Model Used On The Controversial Album Cover, Blind Faith|date=10 Dec 2014|work=]}}</ref> The cover was mildly controversial in the British press, with some seeing the model airplane as ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Doggett|first=Peter |title=There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the '60s|publisher=Canongate Books|year=2008|pages=|isbn=978-1-84767-180-6|url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/theresriotgoingo00dogg/page/280}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=1992|pages=268|isbn=0-85112-939-0}}</ref> The American record company issued the album with an alternative cover, with a photograph of the band on the front, as well as the original cover.


The cover art was created by Seidemann, a friend and former flatmate of Clapton, who is primarily known for his photos of ] and the ]. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help sell ] reprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image.
==Album cover controversy==
The release of the album provoked controversy because the cover featured a topless ] girl, holding in her hands a sculpture of an airplane, which some perceived as ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Doggett |first=Peter |authorlink= |title=There's a Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of the '60s |publisher=] |date=2008 |pages=280–281 |isbn=1847671802}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |authorlink=Colin Larkin (writer) |title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=] |date=1992 |pages=268 |isbn=0851129390}}</ref> The U.S. record company issued it with an alternative cover (which showed a photograph of the band on the front) as well as the original cover.


{{blockquote|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 spaceship 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 ]. The spaceship would be the fruit of the ] and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.
The cover art was created by photographer ], a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton's who is primarily known for his photos of ] and the ]. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help sell ] reprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/badcatrecords/BANNEDblindfaith.htm |title=She's older than she looks... |accessdate=2008-05-09 |publisher=Badcat Records }}</ref>


The spaceship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweller at the ]. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be ], too young and it would be nothing. 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?<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/badcatrecords/BANNEDblindfaith.htm|title=She's older than she looks...|access-date=9 May 2008|publisher=Badcat Records|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027083720/http://geocities.com/badcatrecords/BANNEDblindfaith.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 October 2009}}</ref>}}
<blockquote>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 ]'s ]. The space ship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life.</blockquote>


Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl, reported to be 14 years old, on the ], asking her to model for the cover. He eventually met her parents, but she proved to be too old for the effect he wanted. Instead, the model he used was her younger sister, Mariora Goschen, who was reported to be 11 years old.<ref name=bestcovers /> Goschen recalled that she was coerced into posing for the picture. "My sister said, 'They’ll give you a young horse. Do it!{{'"}} She was instead paid £40.<ref name=bestcovers>{{cite book|title=100 Best Album Covers: The Stories Behind the Sleeves|last=Thorgerson|first= Storm|author2=Powell, Aubrey|year=1999|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|isbn=0-7513-0706-8|pages=29}}</ref><ref>Barrell, Tony (11 November 2007), , ''Sunday Times''.</ref>
<blockquote>The space ship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweler at the ]{{sic}}. The girl was another matter. If she were too old it would be cheesecake, too young and it would be nothing. 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?
</blockquote>


The image, which Seidemann titled "Blind Faith", became the inspiration for the name of the band itself, which had been unnamed when the artwork was commissioned. According to Seidemann: "It was Eric who elected to not print the name of the band on the cover. The name was instead printed on the wrapper, when the wrapper came off, so did the type." That had been done previously for several other albums.
Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl reported to be 14 years old on the ] about modelling for the cover, and eventually met with her parents, but that she proved too old for the effect he wanted. Instead, the model he used was her younger sister Mariora Goschen, who was reported to be 11 years old.<ref name=bestcovers /> Mariora initially requested a horse as a fee but was instead paid £40.<ref name=bestcovers>{{cite book |title=100 Best Album Covers: The Stories Behind the Sleeves |last=Thorgerson |first= Storm |coauthors=Powell,Aubrey |year=1999 |publisher=Dorling Kindersley |isbn=0751307068 |pages=29}} </ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>


In America, ] used a cover based on elements from a flyer for the band's ] concert of 7 June 1969.
Bizarre rumours both surfaced and were fuelled by the controversy, including that the girl was Baker's daughter or was a ] kept as a slave by the band.


== Release history ==
The image, titled "Blind Faith" by Seidemann, became the inspiration for the name of the band itself, which had been unnamed when the artwork was commissioned.
The album was released on vinyl in 1969 on ] in the UK and Europe, and on Atco Records in the US. Polydor released a compact disc in 1986, adding two previously unreleased tracks, "Exchange and Mart" and "Spending All My Days", recorded by Ric Grech for an unfinished solo album, supported by ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZjY3kg2umEQC&pg=PA43|page=43|title=The Music of George Harrison: While My Guitar Gently Weeps|author=Simon Leng|publisher=SAF Publishing Ltd|date= 2003|isbn=9780946719501}}</ref>


An expanded edition of the album was released on 9 January 2001, with previously unreleased tracks and 'jams' included. The studio electric version of "Sleeping in the Ground" had previously been released on the four-disc boxed set for Clapton, '']'' (released 1988, recorded 1963–1987, including several previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings). The bonus disc of jams does not include bassist Grech, who had yet to join the band, but includes a guest percussionist, Guy Warner. Two live tracks from the ] not included here, "Sleeping in the Ground" and a ] of "]", are also available on Winwood's four-disc retrospective '']''.
According to Seidemann, "It was Eric who elected to not print the name of the band on the cover. The name was instead printed on the wrapper, when the wrapper came off, so did the type." In fact, this had been done previously for ] 1964 ], ]'s ], and ]' albums '']'' (1965) and '']'' (1966).

== Reception ==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = ]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/blind-faith-mw0000197076|title=Blind Faith – Blind Faith &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards &#124; AllMusic|website=]|access-date=29 August 2015}}</ref>
| rev2 = '']''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|date=2011|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|title-link=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|page=|publisher=]|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8|edition=5th concise}}</ref>
| rev3 = '']''
| rev3score = 7/10<ref>{{cite book|last=Strong|first=Martin C.|author-link=Martin C. Strong|date=2004|title=The Great Rock Discography|url=https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr0000stro_r9o1/page/150/mode/2up|page=150|via=]|url-access=registration|publisher=]|isbn=1-84195-615-5|edition=7th}}</ref>
| rev4 = '']''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last=Henderson|first=Paul|date=16 August 2018|url=https://www.loudersound.com/reviews/blind-faith-super-album-from-supergroup|title=Blind Faith: Blind Faith album review|website=]|access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref>
| rev5 = '']''
| rev5score = 3.5/5<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Graff |editor-first1=Gary |editor-last2=Durchholz |editor-first2=Daniel |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |publisher=] |location=Farmington Hills, MI |date=1999 |isbn=1-57859-061-2 |page=120|url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/120/mode/2up|via=]}}</ref>
| rev6 = ]
| rev6score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ogouz|first1=Jean-Noël|title=Blind faith, Blind Faith|url=http://www.music-story.com/blind-faith/blind-faith|website=]|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625091822/http://www.music-story.com/blind-faith/blind-faith|archive-date=June 25, 2009|access-date=February 20, 2024}}</ref>
| rev7 = '']''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=]|title=Blind Faith|date=April 2001|page=116}}</ref>
| rev8 = '']''
| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Nathan|editor-last1=Brackett|editor-link1=Nathan Brackett|editor-first2=Christian|editor-last2=Hoard|editor-link2=Christian Hoard|title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide|url=https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/84/mode/2up|via=]|url-access=registration|publisher=]|location=New York|date=2004|access-date=February 20, 2024|isbn=0-7432-0169-8|page=84}}</ref>
| rev9 = '']''
| rev9score = B<ref name="CG"/>
}}
Commercially, ''Blind Faith'' charted at number one in both the US<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/6976282/blind-faith/chart|title=Blind Faith – Chart history – Billboard|magazine=]|access-date=20 May 2018|archive-date=15 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715095332/https://www.billboard.com/artist/6976282/blind-faith/chart|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/2618/blind-faith/|title=BLIND FAITH – full Official Chart History – Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=20 May 2018}}</ref>

The album met with a mixed response from critics. Reviewing in August 1969 for '']'', ] found none of the songs exceptional and said, "I'm almost sure that when I'm through writing this I'll put the album away and only play it for guests. Unless I want to hear Clapton—he is at his best here because he is kept in check by the excesses of Winwood, who is rapidly turning into the greatest wasted talent in music. There. I said it and I'm glad."<ref name="CG">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=14 August 1969|url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg3.php|title=Consumer Guide (3)|newspaper=]|access-date=5 June 2017}}</ref> In '']'', Ed Leimbacher said of the quality, "not as much as I'd hoped, yet better than I'd expected." His colleagues at the magazine—] and John Morthland—were more impressed, especially Bangs in his appraisal of Clapton: " 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."<ref>{{cite book|title=Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965–1970|last=Hjort|first=Christopher|year=2007|page=|publisher=Jawbone Press|isbn=978-1906002008|url=https://archive.org/details/strangebrewericc00hjor/page/256}}</ref>

Retrospective appraisals have been positive. According to '']'' in 1988, "for 20 years this has been a cornerstone in any basic rock library."<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Stereo Review's Stereo Buyers Guide|year=1988|publisher=CBS Magazines|title=Blind Faith}}</ref> ]'s Bruce Eder regarded the album as "one of the jewels of the Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Ginger Baker catalogs".<ref name="AM" /> In 2016, ''Blind Faith'' was ranked 14th on ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s list of "The 40 Greatest One Album Wonders", which described "Can't Find My Way Home" and "Presence of the Lord" as "incredible".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/40-greatest-one-album-wonders-14916|title=40 Greatest One-Album Wonders|magazine=]|access-date=20 May 2018}}</ref>


==Track listing== ==Track listing==
{{Track listing
===Original version===
| headline = Side one<ref name=discogs>{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Blind-Faith-Blind-Faith/release/391938|title=Blind Faith|work=discogs.com|year=1969 }}</ref>
| title1 = Had to Cry Today
| writer1 = ]
| length1 = 8:48
| title2 = ]
| writer2 = Winwood
| length2 = 3:16
| title3 = ]
| writer3 = ], ], ], ]
| length3 = 4:27
| title4 = Presence of the Lord
| writer4 = ]
| length4 = 4:50
}}


{{Track listing
====Side 1====
| headline = Side two<ref name=discogs />
# "Had to Cry Today" (Steve Winwood) – 8:48
| title5 = Sea of Joy
# "Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood) – 3:16
| writer5 = Winwood
# "Well All Right" (], ], ], ]) – 4:27
| length5 = 5:22
# "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 4:50
| title6 = Do What You Like
| writer6 = ]
| length6 = 15:18
}}


{{Track listing
====Side 2====
| headline = 1986 CD bonus tracks<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/434020-Blind-Faith-Blind-Faith | title=Blind Faith - Blind Faith | website=] | year=1986 }}</ref>
# "Sea of Joy" (Steve Winwood) – 5:22
| title7 = Exchange and Mart
# "Do What You Like" (Ginger Baker) – 15:20
| writer7 = ]
| length7 = 4:18
| title8 = Spending All My Days
| writer8 = Grech
| length8 = 3:03
}}


'''Deluxe edition'''
*Note that on the original ] CD release from 1986, two previously unreleased tracks were added as a bonus, "Exchange and Mart" and "Spending All My Days". These were originally recorded for a never released Ric Grech solo album, and there is no proof that any of the other members of Blind Faith took part in the recording sessions.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
{{Track listing
| headline = 2001 bonus tracks
| title7 = Sleeping in the Ground
| writer7 = ]
| length7 = 2:49
| title8 = Can't Find My Way Home
| note8 = Electric version
| writer8 = Winwood
| length8 = 5:40
| title9 = Acoustic Jam
| writer9 = Winwood, Clapton, Baker, Grech
| length9 = 15:50
| title10 = Time Winds
| writer10 = Winwood
| length10 = 3:15
| title11 = Sleeping in the Ground
| note11 = Slow blues version
| writer11 = Myers
| length11 = 4:44
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = 2001 bonus disc
| title1 = Jam No. 1: Very Long & Good Jam
| writer1 = Winwood, Clapton, Baker
| length1 = 14:01
| title2 = Jam No. 2: Slow Jam No. 1
| writer2 = Winwood, Clapton, Baker
| length2 = 15:06
| title3 = Jam No. 3: Change of Address Jam
| writer3 = Winwood, Clapton, Baker
| length3 = 12:06
| title4 = Jam No. 4: Slow Jam No. 2
| writer4 = Winwood, Clapton, Baker
| length4 = 16:06
}}


===Deluxe edition=== == Personnel ==
'''Blind Faith'''
====Disc 1====
* ] – keyboards, vocals, guitars; bass guitar on "Presence of the Lord" and "Well All Right"; ] on "Sea of Joy"; ] on "Jam No. 1–4"
# "Had to Cry Today" (Steve Winwood) – 8:48
* ] – guitars; vocals on "Well All Right" and "Do What You Like"
# "Can't Find My Way Home" (Steve Winwood) – 3:16
* ] – bass guitar, ] on "Sea of Joy"; vocals on "Do What You Like"
# "Well All Right" (Petty, Holly, Allison, Mauldin) – 4:27
* ] – drums, percussion; vocals on "Do What You Like"
# "Presence of the Lord" (Eric Clapton) – 4:50
# "Sea of Joy" (Steve Winwood) – 5:22
# "Do What You Like" (Ginger Baker) – 15:18
# "Sleeping in the Ground" (]) – 2:49
# "Can't Find My Way Home" (Electric Version) - 5:40
# "Acoustic Jam" (Previously Unreleased) - 15:50
# "Time Winds" (Previously Unreleased - 3:15
# "Sleeping in the Ground" (Slow Blues Version) (Previously Unreleased) - 4:44


'''Guest'''
====Disc 2====
* Guy Warren – percussion on "Jam No. 1–4"
# "Jam No.1: Very Long & Good Jam" (Previously Unreleased) - 14:01
# "Jam No.2: Slow Jam #1" (Previously Unreleased) - 15:06
# "Jam No.3: Change of Address Jam" (Previously Unreleased) - 12:06
# "Jam No.4: Slow Jam #2" (Previously Unreleased) - 16:06


'''Production personnel'''
==Personnel==
* ] – ]
* ], ], ], Alan O'Duffy – ]
* Alan O'Duffy, Andy Johns, Jimmy Miller – ]
* Stanley Miller, ] – cover design and photography
* ], ] – executive producers
* Margaret Goldfarb – production co-ordination
* Bill Levenson – reissue supervision
* Suha Gur – remastering
* Vartan – reissue art direction


== Charts ==
*] - organ, piano, guitar, bass, lead vocals
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*] - guitar, vocals
{{col-2}}
*] - bass guitar, violin, vocals
*] - drums, percussion.


===Weekly charts===
==Personnel on deluxe edition disc 2==
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|+Weekly chart performance for ''Blind Faith''
!scope="col"|Chart (1969–1970)
!scope="col"|Peak<br />position
|-
!scope="row"|Australian Albums (])<ref>{{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=], N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
|2
|-
!scope="row"|Canadian Albums (])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6071&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=pm01g0nbqg0hrc8rh2f46qj8e7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171025021857/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6071&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=pm01g0nbqg0hrc8rh2f46qj8e7|archive-date=25 October 2017|url-status=dead|title=Top Albums/CDs – Volume 12, No. 10, October 25 1969|work=]|publisher=]|access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
|1
|-
!scope="row"|Danish Albums (])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://danskehitlister.dk/?song_id=6185|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307111550/http://danskehitlister.dk/?song_id=6185|archive-date=7 March 2016|url-status=dead|title=Danskehitlister – Blind Faith: Blind Faith|publisher=]|language=da|access-date=4 August 2021}}</ref>
|1
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!scope="row"|Norwegian Albums (])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chartsurfer.de/musik/album-charts-norwegen/jahrescharts/alben-1969-2x1.html|title=Alben 1969 Norwegen &#124; Album-Charts &#124; Top 40 Auswertung|publisher=Chartsurfer.de|language=de|work=GfK Entertainment|access-date=29 August 2015|archive-date=16 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616130415/http://www.chartsurfer.de/musik/album-charts-norwegen/jahrescharts/alben-1969-2x1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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!scope="row"|UK Albums (])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chartsurfer.de/musik/album-charts-uk/jahrescharts/alben-1969-2x1.html|title=Alben 1969 UK &#124; Album-Charts &#124; Top 75 Auswertung|publisher=Chartsurfer.de|language=de|work=GfK Entertainment|access-date=29 August 2015|archive-date=16 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616130540/http://www.chartsurfer.de/musik/album-charts-uk/jahrescharts/alben-1969-2x1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|align="center"|35
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== Certifications ==
==Production==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Blind Faith''}}
*Producer: Jimmy Miller
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|artist=Blind Faith|title=Blind Faith|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=1969|certyear=1980|region=Australia|certref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://australianfuncountdowns.blogspot.de/2010/01/accreditation-awards.html?showComment=1440840953640#c2835315120615304454|title=Australian Fun Countdowns: Accreditation Awards|publisher=Australian Fun Countdowns|work=]|date=7 April 2011 |access-date=29 August 2015}}</ref>}}
*Engineers: ], ], ], Alan O'Duffy
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|type=album|award=Gold|artist=Blind Faith|title=Blind Faith|relyear=1060|certyear=1969|certref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/60s/1969/CB-1969-11-15-OCR-Page-0063.pdf#search=%22blind%20faith%20gold%20leaf%22|title=Cash Box Canada}}</ref>}}
*Mixing: Andy Johns, Jimmy Miller
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|artist=Blind Faith|title=Confianza Ciega|relyear=1992|relmonth=01|certyear=1992|region=Spain|award=Gold|certref=<ref name="ESP" />}}
*Remastering: Suha Gur
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|artist=Blind Faith|title=Blind Faith|relyear=1969|certyear=1969|region=United Kingdom|award=Gold|certref=<ref>See BPI Certifications list on UKMIX.org for reference. Retrieved 29 August 2015.</ref>}}
*Production coordination: Margaret Goldfarb
{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|artist=Blind Faith|title=Blind Faith|relyear=1969|certyear=1969|region=United States|award=Platinum|access-date=29 August 2015}}
*Arranger: Chris Blackwell, Robert Stigwood
{{Certification Table Summary}}
*Reissue supervisor: Bill Levenson
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*Art direction: Vartan
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*Cover design: Stanley Miller, Bob Seidemann
*Cover art: Stanley Miller
*Cover photo: Bob Seidmannn
*Photography: Bob Seidemann


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1969 album by Blind Faith

Blind Faith
a topless pubescent girl, holding in her hands a stylized silver aircraft
Studio album by Blind Faith
Released9 August 1969 (US)
22 August 1969 (UK)
Recorded20 February – 28 June 1969
Studio
Genre
Length42:01
LabelPolydor
ProducerJimmy Miller
Eric Clapton chronology
Best of Cream
(1969) 		Blind Faith
(1969) 		On Tour with Eric Clapton
(1970)
Alternative cover
US cover

Blind Faith is the only studio album by the English supergroup Blind Faith, originally released in 1969 on Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Europe and on Atco Records in the United States. It topped the album charts in the UK, Canada and US, and was listed at No. 40 on the US Soul Albums chart. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA.

Background

The band contained two-thirds of the popular power trio Cream, in Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton, working in collaboration with British star Steve Winwood of the Spencer Davis Group and Traffic, along with Ric Grech of Family. They began to work out songs early in 1969, and in February and March the group was at Morgan Studios in London, although the first few almost-finished songs did not show up until they were at Olympic Studios in April and May under the direction of producer Jimmy Miller.

The recording of their album was interrupted by a tour of Scandinavia, then a US tour from 11 July (Newport) to 24 August (Hawaii), supported by Free, Taste and Delaney & Bonnie and Friends. Although a chart topper, the LP was recorded hurriedly and side two consisted of just two songs, one of them a 15-minute jam entitled "Do What You Like". Nevertheless, the band produced two hits, Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home" and Clapton's "Presence of the Lord".

Album cover

The cover was a photo by Bob Seidemann of a topless 11-year-old girl, Mariora Goschen, holding a silver-painted model of an aircraft, sculpted for the album shoot by Mick Milligan. The cover was mildly controversial in the British press, with some seeing the model airplane as phallic. The American record company issued the album with an alternative cover, with a photograph of the band on the front, as well as the original cover.

The cover art was created by Seidemann, a friend and former flatmate of Clapton, who is primarily known for his photos of Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. In the mid-1990s, in an advertising circular intended to help sell lithographic reprints of the famous album cover, he explained his thinking behind the image.

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 spaceship 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 spaceship would be the fruit of the tree of knowledge and the girl, the fruit of the tree of life. The spaceship could be made by Mick Milligan, a jeweller 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. 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?

Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl, reported to be 14 years old, on the London Underground, asking her to model for the cover. He eventually met her parents, but she proved to be too old for the effect he wanted. Instead, the model he used was her younger sister, Mariora Goschen, who was reported to be 11 years old. Goschen recalled that she was coerced into posing for the picture. "My sister said, 'They’ll give you a young horse. Do it!'" She was instead paid £40.

The image, which Seidemann titled "Blind Faith", became the inspiration for the name of the band itself, which had been unnamed when the artwork was commissioned. According to Seidemann: "It was Eric who elected to not print the name of the band on the cover. The name was instead printed on the wrapper, when the wrapper came off, so did the type." That had been done previously for several other albums.

In America, Atco Records used a cover based on elements from a flyer for the band's Hyde Park concert of 7 June 1969.

Release history

The album was released on vinyl in 1969 on Polydor Records in the UK and Europe, and on Atco Records in the US. Polydor released a compact disc in 1986, adding two previously unreleased tracks, "Exchange and Mart" and "Spending All My Days", recorded by Ric Grech for an unfinished solo album, supported by George Harrison, Denny Laine, and Trevor Burton.

An expanded edition of the album was released on 9 January 2001, with previously unreleased tracks and 'jams' included. The studio electric version of "Sleeping in the Ground" had previously been released on the four-disc boxed set for Clapton, Crossroads (released 1988, recorded 1963–1987, including several previously unreleased live or alternate studio recordings). The bonus disc of jams does not include bassist Grech, who had yet to join the band, but includes a guest percussionist, Guy Warner. Two live tracks from the 1969 Hyde Park concert not included here, "Sleeping in the Ground" and a cover of "Under My Thumb", are also available on Winwood's four-disc retrospective The Finer Things.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Great Rock Discography7/10
Louder
MusicHound Rock3.5/5
Music Story
Q
The Rolling Stone Album Guide
The Village VoiceB

Commercially, Blind Faith charted at number one in both the US and the UK.

The album met with a mixed response from critics. Reviewing in August 1969 for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau found none of the songs exceptional and said, "I'm almost sure that when I'm through writing this I'll put the album away and only play it for guests. Unless I want to hear Clapton—he is at his best here because he is kept in check by the excesses of Winwood, who is rapidly turning into the greatest wasted talent in music. There. I said it and I'm glad." In Rolling Stone, Ed Leimbacher said of the quality, "not as much as I'd hoped, yet better than I'd expected." His colleagues at the magazine—Lester Bangs and John Morthland—were more impressed, especially Bangs in his appraisal of Clapton: " 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."

Retrospective appraisals have been positive. According to Stereo Review in 1988, "for 20 years this has been a cornerstone in any basic rock library." AllMusic's Bruce Eder regarded the album as "one of the jewels of the Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, and Ginger Baker catalogs". In 2016, Blind Faith was ranked 14th on Rolling Stone's list of "The 40 Greatest One Album Wonders", which described "Can't Find My Way Home" and "Presence of the Lord" as "incredible".

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Had to Cry Today"Steve Winwood8:48
2."Can't Find My Way Home"Winwood3:16
3."Well All Right"Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin, Norman Petty4:27
4."Presence of the Lord"Eric Clapton4:50
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Sea of Joy"Winwood5:22
6."Do What You Like"Ginger Baker15:18
1986 CD bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Exchange and Mart"Ric Grech4:18
8."Spending All My Days"Grech3:03

Deluxe edition

2001 bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
7."Sleeping in the Ground"Sam Myers2:49
8."Can't Find My Way Home" (Electric version)Winwood5:40
9."Acoustic Jam"Winwood, Clapton, Baker, Grech15:50
10."Time Winds"Winwood3:15
11."Sleeping in the Ground" (Slow blues version)Myers4:44
2001 bonus disc
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Jam No. 1: Very Long & Good Jam"Winwood, Clapton, Baker14:01
2."Jam No. 2: Slow Jam No. 1"Winwood, Clapton, Baker15:06
3."Jam No. 3: Change of Address Jam"Winwood, Clapton, Baker12:06
4."Jam No. 4: Slow Jam No. 2"Winwood, Clapton, Baker16:06

Personnel

Blind Faith

  • Steve Winwood – keyboards, vocals, guitars; bass guitar on "Presence of the Lord" and "Well All Right"; autoharp on "Sea of Joy"; bass pedals on "Jam No. 1–4"
  • Eric Clapton – guitars; vocals on "Well All Right" and "Do What You Like"
  • Ric Grech – bass guitar, violin on "Sea of Joy"; vocals on "Do What You Like"
  • Ginger Baker – drums, percussion; vocals on "Do What You Like"

Guest

  • Guy Warren – percussion on "Jam No. 1–4"

Production personnel

Charts

Weekly charts

Weekly chart performance for Blind Faith
Chart (1969–1970) Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) 2
Canadian Albums (RPM) 1
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) 1
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) 1
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) 5
French Albums (IFOP) 4
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 5
Japanese Albums (Oricon) 3
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) 1
UK Albums (OCC) 1
US Billboard 200 1
1992 weekly chart performance for Blind Faith
Chart (1992) Peak
position
Spanish Albums (AFYVE) 9
2015 weekly chart performance for Blind Faith
Chart (2015) Peak
position
Croatian International Albums (HDU) 25

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Blind Faith
Chart (1969) Position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 53
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) 20
UK Albums (OCC) 35

Certifications

Certifications for Blind Faith
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) 3× Platinum 150,000
Canada (Music Canada) Gold 50,000
Spain (PROMUSICAE) Gold 50,000
United Kingdom (BPI) Gold 100,000
United States (RIAA) Platinum 1,000,000
Summaries
Worldwide (IFPI) — 8,000,000

Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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