Following Cream and Blind Faith, the late drummer traveled restlessly to collaborate with kindred spirits. Here, a playlist of incomparable power and swing.
Although best known for his early work drumming for the Eric Clapton-led bands Cream and Blind Faith, Ginger Baker was a born explorer who earned the kind of success that, paired with his skills and restlessness, afforded him the opportunity to seek., took full advantage of his success in the mid- and late 1960s on Cream hits including “White Room,” “I Feel Free” and “Sunshine of Your Love.”
Pure percussion with call-and-response vocals, Baker issued this at the same moment that much of the rock culture was harmonizing along with singer-songwriters such as James Taylor and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Needless to say, the single didn’t generate enough demand for an LP.In 1970, Baker saw the great Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti in London and headed to Lagos the next year.
A mess of riffs, oscillators and pounding, Baker pushed Dave Brock and company’s hard rock in ways that predicted desert rock heroes Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.Baker’s best recorded expressions are, by far, his instrumentals. “The Land of Mordor,” taken from a one-off album by another of his trios, called Bakerandband, journeys to the Middle Earth of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
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