Fresh Cream

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Fresh Cream

Fresh Cream represents so many different firsts, it's difficult to keep count. Cream, of course, was the first supergroup, but their first album not only gave birth to the power trio, it also was instrumental in the birth of heavy metal and the birth of jam rock. That's a lot of weight for one record and, like a lot of pioneering records, Fresh Cream doesn't seem quite as mighty as what would come later.. In retrospect, the moments on the LP that are a bit unformed -- in particular, the halting waltz of "Dreaming" never achieves the sweet ethereal atmosphere it aspires to -- stand out more than the innovations, which have been so thoroughly assimilated into the vocabulary of rock & roll, but Fresh Cream was a remarkable shift forward in rock upon its 1966 release and it remains quite potent. Certainly at this early stage the trio was still grounded heavily in blues,

1.	"N.S.U."
2.	"Sleepy Time Time"
3.	"Dreaming"
4.	"Sweet Wine"
5.	"Spoonful" 1. "Cat's Squirrel" 2. "Four Until Late" (Lead vocals: Eric Clapton) 3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'"   4. "I'm so glad"   5. "Toad" (Instrumental)