Wheels of Fire

by Cream

Wheels of Fire cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 June 1968
  • Label: Polydor
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:20:12
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 12 ratings

Artists on this release: Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce

Album Notes & Community Reviews

As a sprawling double album, 'Wheels of Fire' documents the two distinct sides of Cream: a studio disc and a live disc. The studio set demonstrates the band's growing compositional ambition and elaborate production, blending the psychedelic art-rock of Jack Bruce and Pete Brown's "White Room" with varied instrumentation, while the live set from the Fillmore captures the trio's lauded improvisational power on extended blues jams like "Crossroads" and "Toad".

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, technical, bluesy, improvisation, guitar-driven

Tracklist

  1. White Room (04:58)
  2. Sitting On Top Of The World (04:58)
  3. Passing The Time (04:32)
  4. As You Said (04:20)
  5. Pressed Rat And Warthog (03:13)
  6. Politician (04:11)
  7. Those Were The Days (02:53)
  8. Born Under A Bad Sign (03:09)
  9. Deserted Cities Of The Heart (03:38)
  10. Crossroads - Live (04:18)
  11. Spoonful - Live (16:46)
  12. Traintime - Live (07:01)
  13. Toad - Live (16:15)

Credits

  • Jack Bruce - lead vocals, bass guitar, cello, harmonica, calliope, acoustic guitar, recorder, co-writer
  • Ginger Baker - drums, percussion, bells, glockenspiel, timpani, vocals, spoken word, co-writer
  • Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
  • Tom Dowd - recording engineer
  • Adrian Barber - recording engineer, re-mix engineer
  • Bill Halverson - recording engineer
  • Felix Pappalardi - producer, viola, bells, organ, trumpet, tonette
  • Mike Taylor - co-writer, piano
  • Pete Brown - co-writer, poet
  • Martin Sharp - art
  • Jim Marshall - photography
  • Booker T. Jones - writer
  • Stanislaw Zagórski - album design

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