Fresh Cream
by Cream
- Type: Album
- Released: 9 December 1966
- Label: Reaction
- Country: United Kingdom
- Community rating: 3.63/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Bruce, Muddy Waters, Ginger Baker, Janet Godfrey, Baker, Robert Johnson, Trad. Arr. S. Splurge, Skip James, Godfrey-Bruce, Eric Clapton, Willie Dixon, Godfrey-Baker, Jack Bruce
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Formed as a virtuosic blues-rock power trio, Cream's debut emphasizes heavily amplified interpretations of traditional blues standards and tight original compositions. The interplay between Eric Clapton's sustained guitar tones, Jack Bruce's driving bass, and Ginger Baker's jazz-inflected drumming established a template for hard rock.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, rhythmic, bluesy, improvisational, jamming
Tracklist
Credits
- Cream - primary artist
- Jack Bruce - bass, harmonica, vocals, written-by, bass guitar, vocal
- Paragon Publicity - cover, design
- Ginger Baker - drums, vocals, written-by, drums (drum set), vocal
- John Timperley - engineer [uncredited]
- Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals, vocal
- Robert Stigwood - producer [product of the robert stigwood organisation]
- Bruce - written by
- Godfrey-Bruce - written by
- Janet Godfrey - written-by
- Godfrey-Baker - written by
- Willie Dixon - written by, written-by
- S. Splurge - arranged by
- Trad. Arr. S. Splurge - written by
- Traditional - written-by
- Doctor Ross - written-by [uncredited]
- Robert Johnson - written by, written-by
- Muddy Waters - written by, written-by
- Skip James - written by, written-by
- Baker - written by