CREAM – DETROIT 1967

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This unofficial double CD released on the Homespun label is a beautiful testimony to how Cream knew how to improvise live, expanding their repertoire to an enormous extent and offering a different performance every night. This is the radio recording made by the WRIF-FM station of the concert that Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker held on October 15, 1967 at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit, shortly before releasing the epochal second album “Disraeli Gears” from which the power trio offers “Tales Of Brave Ulysses”. From the previous repertoire come the original compositions “NSU”, “Traintime”, “Sweet Wine” and “Toad” (the famous drum solo by Baker) and the covers of “Sitting On Top Of The World” (Mississippi Sheiks), “Rollin’ And Tumblin'” (Hambone Willie Newbern, Muddy Waters), “Spoonful” (Willie Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf), “Steppin’ Out” (Memphis Slim) and “I’m So Glad” (Skip James).