It was big news when guitarist Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker from the recently-disbanded Cream joined forces with keyboardist-singer Steve Winwood, whose history with Traffic and the Spencer Davis Group had made him one of Britain’s most admired young musicians (bass player Rick Grech came from the more obscure Brit group Family), and the buzz must have been palpable when they took the stage before hundreds of thousands of fans on a June afternoon in 1969.
They were known as rock’s first supergroup, but there’s nothing all that super about Blind Faith – London Hyde Park 1969, a record of the quartet’s debut performance. In fairness, the group hadn’t been together very long, and their one and only album hadn’t bee