Found this AI-generated description of the term blind faith:

All that aside, whenever I hear mention of blind faith I am thinking music as in the first rock supergroup – Blind Faith.

Check out this from Redditt comments on the group and their album (click here.) Ironic side note here – there was a lot of controversy over the original album cover (click here.)

For obvious reasons that cover was banned in the US. That explains why the album I owned appeared as such:

Featuring only six tunes, that first and only album from them included Clapton’s Presence of the Lord and two other great songs contributed by Stevie Winwood Can’t Find My Way Home and Had to Cry Today.

Presence of the Lord featured Clapton writing about redemption and salvation.

As for being the “first” supergroup, Blind Faith may actually have been the fourth or fifth such group of superstars. A case could be made that Cream, with two of Blind Faith’s members Clapton and GInger Baker, were the first supergroup along with Jack Bruce. Clapton then left them to form Derek and the Dominoes before landing with the Blind Faith fellas. Back in the U.S. Crosby, Stills and Nash were on the scene too in 1968.

And then there is a little known collaboration led by Al Kooper on the album Super Session. Kooper was joined by Mike Bloomfield and Steven Stills. For what it’s worth (get it?) I still have Super Session somewhere in my milk carton collection. Upon re-checking, I found that my Blind Faith censored-cover copy is missing. Guess you can say that I lost my faith.

I don’t know why but the phrase “It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry’ often times runs through my head during bad, sad and mad times. It is one of Bob’s many lyrics that have stayed with me thru my 75 years in this country store called life. As for matters of faith, the one thing that I am absolutely sure of is that I do believe in Bob.

That is Harvey Brooks kicking it on bass in the above tune. The last song on Super Session was his and is titled appropriately enough “Harvey’s Tune.” Great tune but @ 2:08 is a little too short imho.

Billy Fitzgerald visited with Larry and me for this week’s Buzzy Podcast which will appear here tomorrow. If you would like to catch that now (click here.)