180g Vinyl Reissue!
Rolling Stone 2015 Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Jam Bands: Cream Rated 4th!
Live Cream is a live compilation album by the English rock band Cream, released in 1970. This album comprises four live tracks recorded in 1968 and one studio track "Lawdy Mama" from 1967. The instrumental track for "Lawdy Mama" is the same as heard on "Strange Brew" with a different vocal and guitar solo by Eric Clapton. Live Cream hit No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and made No. 4 on the UK Top 40.
This British rock supergroup was formed in 1966 and their sound was characterized by a hybrid of blues rock, hard rock, and bourgeoning psychedelic rock as performed by Eric Clapton's innovative blues guitar, Jack Bruce's operatic voice and fluid bass playing, and Ginger Baker's jazz-influenced drumming. Cream soon evolved further, creating a trademark approach built around each musician's virtuoso playing. The band's imaginative lyrics were often written by poet Pete Brown.
"This could well be their most consistently brilliant album for sheer musicianship...Live Cream offers the overall highest quality, both in terms of clarity and fidelity, and the performances, which, in addition to the essential great playing (better in some ways than what was heard on some of the much-vaunted live tracks from Wheels of Fire), include excellent vocalizing by Clapton and Jack Bruce...Performances like this single-handedly raised the stakes of musicianship in rock." -Bruce Eder, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Vinyl
Exact reproduction of original artwork
Selections:
Side One:
1. N.S.U.
2. Sleepy Time Time
3. Lawdy Mama
Side Two:
1. Sweet Wine
2. Rollin' and Tumblin'
Rolling Stone 2015 Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Jam Bands: Cream Rated 4th!
Live Cream is a live compilation album by the English rock band Cream, released in 1970. This album comprises four live tracks recorded in 1968 and one studio track "Lawdy Mama" from 1967. The instrumental track for "Lawdy Mama" is the same as heard on "Strange Brew" with a different vocal and guitar solo by Eric Clapton. Live Cream hit No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and made No. 4 on the UK Top 40.
This British rock supergroup was formed in 1966 and their sound was characterized by a hybrid of blues rock, hard rock, and bourgeoning psychedelic rock as performed by Eric Clapton's innovative blues guitar, Jack Bruce's operatic voice and fluid bass playing, and Ginger Baker's jazz-influenced drumming. Cream soon evolved further, creating a trademark approach built around each musician's virtuoso playing. The band's imaginative lyrics were often written by poet Pete Brown.
"This could well be their most consistently brilliant album for sheer musicianship...Live Cream offers the overall highest quality, both in terms of clarity and fidelity, and the performances, which, in addition to the essential great playing (better in some ways than what was heard on some of the much-vaunted live tracks from Wheels of Fire), include excellent vocalizing by Clapton and Jack Bruce...Performances like this single-handedly raised the stakes of musicianship in rock." -Bruce Eder, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Vinyl
Exact reproduction of original artwork
Selections:
Side One:
1. N.S.U.
2. Sleepy Time Time
3. Lawdy Mama
Side Two:
1. Sweet Wine
2. Rollin' and Tumblin'
