Blind Faith ( Blind Faith album ) - wikipedia Blind Faith ( Blind Faith album ) Blind Faith Studio album by Blind Faith Released August 1969 ( 1969 - 08 ) Recorded 20 February -- 24 June 1969 Studio Olympic Studios & Morgan Studios, London Genre Blues rock Length 42 : 12 Label Polydor Producer Jimmy Miller Alternative cover US cover Blind Faith is the self - titled and only album by the English supergroup Blind Faith, originally released in 1969 on Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Europe and on Atlantic 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. Rolling Stone published three reviews of the album in their 6 September 1969 issue, which were written by Ed Leimbacher, Lester Bangs, and John Morthland. Contents 1 Background 2 Album cover controversy 3 Release history 4 Reception 5 Track listing 6 Personnel 7 Charts 7.1 Weekly charts 7.2 Year - end charts 8 Certifications 9 See also 10 References Background This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2018 ) A buzz built about the band, since it contained two - thirds of the immensely 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 in London at Morgan Studios, preparing for the beginnings of basic tracks for their album, although the first few almost finished songs did n't show up until they were at Olympic Studios in April and May under the direction of producer Jimmy Miller. 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 promoters and record companies got involved, pushing those concerned for an album and a tour. 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 was able to produce two hits, Winwood 's `` Ca n't Find My Way Home '' and Clapton 's `` Presence of the Lord ''. Album cover controversy The release of the album provoked controversy because the cover featured a topless pubescent girl, holding what appears to be the hood ornament of a Chevrolet Bel Air, which some perceived as phallic. The American record company issued it with an alternative cover showing a photograph of the band on the front as well as the original cover. The cover art was created by photographer Bob Seidemann, a personal friend and former flatmate of Clapton 's 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 ( 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 ? Seidemann wrote that he approached a girl reported to be 14 years old on the London Underground 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. Mariora initially requested a horse as a fee but was instead paid £ 40. Bizarre rumours both contributed to and were fuelled by the controversy, including that the girl was Baker 's daughter or was a groupie kept as a slave by the band. 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. 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. '' This had been done previously for the Rolling Stones ' 1964 debut album, the Beatles ' albums Rubber Soul in 1965 and Revolver in 1966, and Traffic 's self - titled 1968 debut album. In America, Atco Records made a cover based on elements from a flyer for the band 's Hyde Park concert of 7 June 1969 in London. 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, deluxe 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. 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 Source Rating AllMusic Rolling Stone ( favourable ) The 1000 Best Pop - Rock Albums Music Story The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching number one on both sides of the Atlantic and receiving mostly positive reviews. On a list by Rolling Stone of `` The 30 Greatest One Album Wonders '', Blind Faith was at 14, while songs such as `` Ca n't Find My Way Home '' and `` Presence of the Lord '' were described as `` incredible ''. Classic Rock Review spoke positively of the album, saying the critical acclaim it had received was `` well - deserved ''. The German edition of Rolling Stone ranked the album as the 140th greatest of all time. Track listing Side one No. Title Writer ( s ) Length 1. `` Had to Cry Today '' Steve Winwood 8 : 48 2. `` Ca n't Find My Way Home '' Winwood 3 : 16 3. `` Well All Right '' Buddy Holly, Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin, Norman Petty 4 : 27 4. `` Presence of the Lord '' Eric Clapton 4 : 50 Side two No. Title Writer ( s ) Length 5. `` Sea of Joy '' Winwood 5 : 22 6. `` Do What You Like '' Ginger Baker 15 : 18 Deluxe edition 2001 bonus tracks No. Title Writer ( s ) Length 7. `` Sleeping in the Ground '' Sam Myers 2 : 49 8. `` Ca n't Find My Way Home '' ( Electric version ) Winwood 5 : 40 9. `` Acoustic Jam '' Winwood, Clapton, Baker, Ric Grech 15 : 50 10. `` Time Winds '' Winwood 3 : 15 11. `` Sleeping in the Ground '' ( Slow blues version ) Myers 4 : 44 2001 bonus disc No. Title Writer ( s ) Length 1. `` Jam No. 1 : Very Long & Good Jam '' Winwood, Clapton, Baker 14 : 01 2. `` Jam No. 2 : Slow Jam No. 1 '' Winwood, Clapton, Baker 15 : 06 3. `` Jam No. 3 : Change of Address Jam '' Winwood, Clapton, Baker 12 : 06 4. `` Jam No. 4 : Slow Jam No. 2 '' Winwood, Clapton, Baker 16 : 06 Personnel Steve Winwood -- keyboards, vocals, guitars ; bass guitar on `` Presence of the Lord '' Eric Clapton -- guitars ; vocals on `` 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 '' Production personnel Jimmy Miller -- producer George Chkiantz, Keith Harwood, Andy Johns, Alan O'Duffy -- engineers Alan O'Duffy, Andy Johns, Jimmy Miller -- mixing Stanley Miller, Bob Seidemann -- cover design and photography Chris Blackwell, Robert Stigwood -- executive producers Margaret Goldfarb -- production co-ordination Bill Levenson -- reissue supervision Suha Gur -- remastering Vartan -- reissue art direction Charts Weekly charts Chart ( 1969 -- 2015 ) Peak position Australian Albums ( Kent Music Report ) Canadian Top Albums / CDs ( RPM ) Croatian International Albums ( HDU ) 25 Danish Albums ( Hitlisten ) Dutch Albums ( MegaCharts ) French Albums ( IFOP ) German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100 ) 5 Irish Albums ( IRMA ) 88 Japanese Albums ( Oricon ) 293 Norwegian Albums ( VG - lista ) Spanish Albums ( PROMUSICAE ) 49 UK Albums ( OCC ) US Billboard 200 US Top R&B Albums ( Billboard ) 40 Year - end charts Chart ( 1969 ) Position German Albums ( Offizielle Top 100 ) 53 Norwegian Albums ( VG - lista ) 20 UK Albums ( OCC ) 35 Certifications Region Certification Certified units / Sales Australia ( ARIA ) 3 × Platinum 210,000 Canada ( Music Canada ) Platinum 100,000 Croatia ( HDU ) Gold 7,500 Macao ( IFPI Macao ) Gold 15,000 Netherlands ( NVPI ) Platinum 100,000 Norway ( IFPI Norway ) Platinum 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 sales figures based on certification alone shipments figures based on certification alone See also List of Billboard 200 number - one albums of 1969 List of Canadian number - one albums of 1969 List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1960s List of controversial album art References Jump up ^ Doggett, Peter ( 2008 ). 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Question: who wrote in the presence of the lord
Answer: Eric Clapton