| "Can't Find My Way Home" | |
|---|---|
B-side of Australian release of "Well, All Right"
| |
| SinglebyBlind Faith | |
| from the album Blind Faith | |
| Released | August 1969 (1969-08) |
| Recorded | London, Spring 1969 |
| Genre | Folk rock |
| Length | 3:16 |
| Label | Polydor |
| Songwriter(s) | Steve Winwood |
| Producer(s) | Jimmy Miller |
| Official audio | |
| "Can't Find My Way Home"onYouTube | |
"Can't Find My Way Home" is a song written by Steve Winwood that was first released by Blind Faith on their 1969 album Blind Faith. The song was also issued as a single B-side in some countries in 1969 and as an A-side, on the RSO label in the United States, in 1977.
Winwood appears to have never spoken publicly about the origin or meaning of the song. He has said that "When I write a song, I don't like to have to explain it afterwards. To me, it's like telling a joke, then having to explain it. The explanation doesn't add to the song at all." [1]
Winwood was 21 or younger when he wrote the song.[2]
Rolling Stone, in a review of the album, noted that the song featured "Ginger Baker's highly innovative percussion" and judged the lyric "...I'm wasted and I can't find my way home" to be "delightful".[3]
The song has been covered by musicians and bands of different genres, often in the style of the original.
One of the earliest to cover the track was Eric Clapton,[4] who tapped Yvonne Elliman to sing the song during his 1976–77 concert tours.[5][6]
Brazilian singer and tropicalist composer Gilberto Gil recorded it on his 1971 studio album Gilberto Gil (a live version appeared as bonus track on CD as well).
Virtuoso slide guitarist Ellen McIlwaine covered the song twice -- once on her 1972 debut solo album "Honky Tonk Angel" and again -in a reggae-influenced synth percussion makeover- on her 1987 LP "Looking for Trouble."
American blues guitarist Bonnie Raitt sang the song during her 1972 concert series.[7] A bootleg recording with Raitt, Lowell George, John P. Hammond and Freebo has more than five million views on YouTube.[8]
American experimental rock act Swans released a cover featuring frequent collaborator Jarboe on 1989's The Burning World.
In 1990, American glam metal band House of Lords covered the song on their album Sahara.
Joe Cocker covered the song on his 1996 album Organic.
Two notable versions have been heard on screen: one by American singer Alana Davis in 1999's The Mod Squad film,[9] and another by American bluegrass singer Alison Krauss for the 2003 soundtrack of Crossing Jordan, a television series.[10]
In 2018, Australian-American singer Rachael Price covered the song on Live from Here with Chris Thile on mandolin.[11]
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