Hey Lawdy Mama - Cream

[conradzajkowski]

this song is crack, Daymn

[busessuck1]

...why'd you even listen to this version?

the quality is terrible on two levels

[chofascc]

what does lawdy mean?

[privettricker]

@chofascc It means "Lordy."

[chofascc]

@privettricker thanks!

[timjumper7]

the picture of hendrix and clapton is great,this is when rock guitar was really born

[timjumper7]

angus young has been a gibson sg the whole time

[lofi73]

You should get your hands on the "Klook´s Kleek" bootleg if you can.They were on fire that night!

[EasyAce]

@klotzstang Anyone who says the Gibson SG looks like a Stratocaster ought to have his or her eyes examined. And anyone who says Gibson is old school and out of date ought never to be taken seriously as anything resembling a music critic. (Just ask James Hetfield, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and a small host of others who continue to play Gibson guitars . . . )

[tombokickass]

@LBDarnocCZ ..if good music's not around today, how did you find this?

Just because someone else doesnt listen to this music doesnt mean its dead.

[plpicher]

i belive single coils sound 10 times better than humbucker still i agree he should have kept playing with gibsons

[NoyzyBoyZ3]

@klotzstang Whom ever you use for your info should be fired!They're making a fool out of you!

[TheForestmonk]

Most talented guitar player to ever live. Master of timing and grace. For this  I refer to Clapton as a Master of Time.

[Screamingdk]

@TheForestmonk ANOTHER NUT SACK SUCKING WHITE FOOL!

[TheForestmonk]

@Screamingdk Incorrect sir.

[RcUniverseGuy]

@Screamingdk if tis white its right

[888899991]

holy fuck look at their clothes 1:12

[MikeInVentura]

Great Job! You're hired!

[MorroccoM13]

@klotzstang Well, I meant a real Gibson not an Epiphone. Almost all of the famous Brit Blues and Rock guitarists made themselves who they are on a Gibson and not a (dont stay in tune) Fender. I was getting at the tone and style they played while playing their Gibsons.

[fonkfiend]

God, I want that psychedelic Gibson SG so bad...

[coreydoublebassist]

@fonkfiend

theres a guitar store back home where im from,( Montgomery alabama) that has an old sixties sg painted up just like (the fool)

[metart93]

0:52, erics pants gettin a little revealing : P lol

[Screamingdk]

@metart93 STOP DICK WATCHING SHITNEY!

[izzykov]

What are you guys so lazy you can't twist the knobs in a heartbeat between songs?

Fender Strat is the best sounding guitar, not to mention the way it sets just right against ya......

I love this song btw, way back a million years ago I played it at my high school talent show.

[petequintin]

Gibson Les paul is THE BEST!

[DapperDanP]

Dude fender doesn't suck, I play fender's.

There the perfect guitar for the blues and rolling stone declared it the most regonizable guitar in the world.

[MorroccoM13]

Yah, Strats never stay in tune. The Gibson's do have a much better tone for him. Maybe not SRV but definitely Clapton.

[MorroccoM13]

Clapton should still be playing a Gibson guitar.

[petequintin]

Quite right! fender sux balls

[KonradAdenauer]

You are so right. He never bonded with the Strat, and it has the wrong tone for him.

[Mikeeyooshow]

@MorroccoM13 strat all the way!

[magicpen6666]

@MorroccoM13 while he certainly no slouch on a fender stratocaster, i LOVE him on a Gibson SG

[MorroccoM13]

@magicpen6666 >> Its that humbucker sound.

Gibby all the way!

[supsailor1885]

I first heard this version on a poor quality CBM LP Bootleg called Cream Amsterdam '67 ' RAH 68, ironicly Cream never played a gig in Amsterdam

[sizzledeyes]

The Cream Greatest CD isn't very good. I didn't like Cream for a long while, but this song is awesome. Why isn't stuff like this on there?

[OspreyD40]

My suggestion is to try to get a good old CD of Fresh Cream, the group's first 'album' in the USA. I've found that sound quality has varied a lot with their studio releases. Even the second vinyl pressing of their Disraeli Gears album had lost tone. The first run had "Dratleaf" as the song publisher. The second pressing listed "Nemperor", I scouted record shops to find a Dratleaf pressing! Fresh Cream shows many elements of their music, with a bit of the experimental- the odd vocal time of NSU.

[DapperDanP]

I love to play this song on my guitar, it just evokes great feeling...

[LucasMarquesGHC]

the intro seems very much to strange brew

[iagobroxado]

Strange Brew comes from this version of Lawdy Mama.

[Vladymir1916]

Vocal line sounds similar to this from Crossroads

[eggymoo]

Actually strange Brew comes from Lawdy Mama (version 2). find it here on youtube. Guitar intro is similar in both versions tho.

[iagobroxado]

haha, I'll tell you where the intro comes from - it´s an Albert King´s "Oh Pretty Woman" solo ripoff! :)

[eggymoo]

Absolutely - the Strange brew solo is also apparently a 'tribute' to Albert King (i.e. EC nicked it note for note!) ;-D

[therealnotpalc]

one of the, if not earliest cream recordings

I have this boot and it is just amazig

[PatClapp]

where can i find this? so great!

[iagobroxado]

google Sugarmegs audio! :)

[Vladymir1916]

at the BBC Sessions

[LesPaulGoldTop21]

Great song!

[Greenduckman1]

they all look weird

[supsailor1885]

I remember the first time I heard this version, it was on a CBM Bootleg called Cream Amsterdam 67 London 68, ironically, Cream never played Amsterdam. Anyway, the song was misnomered "Big Black Woman Blues" on the Album Jacket. The same show has been released in much better quality since then

[akillerpanda76]

Does this sound like Crossroads to anyone else?

[Danjd1]

blues follows a 1-4-5 chord pattern for the most part, so some songs are bound to sound similar, i hear what you mean, but crossroads is definatly different.

[akillerpanda76]

yeah, i think youre right, it just struck me as odd the first time i heard this.

[firefarris]

music was definitlely getting lounder and harder. thanks cream. kick ass rock band!!!

[TL250Rider]

This is Fantastic. Thank you for the listing.

The Music form the 60's was and is the best ten years of Rock N Roll.

Wall Of Sound to Woodstock the Best.

10 years of Rock N Roll

[glennfryenpie]

this is cool, where did you get this?

[rvz77]

You guys are tone deaf! its statesboro blues, the allman brothers version at the beginning. interesting, could abb have stolen it from this song?

[coontardo]

its called a blues shuffle, there there are a hundred takes on it that sound just like the beginning.

[ame624]

beggining sounds like strange brew

[Ledvolta]

That's the point...yes.

[ChrisLeeBear]

well, actually you better should say strange brew sounds like lawdy mama ;)

[Ledvolta]

That's what I meant to imply.

[Slowhand505]

where did you get that picture with Eric a Hendrix, i only see one picture, of them together this is amazing nice edition

[loudrussell]

where is that picture of eric & jimi from?

[flaviolima91]

lawdy mama is an older buddy guy song...

strange brew was a different arrangement of it, and not the other way around.

[Ledvolta]

Is the BG song of the same name (lawdy mama)?

[flaviolima91]

yes

[DFORCE1969]

Theres also a bootleg of a very powerful version of We're going wrong from the same gig;I live in West Hampstead;Do you know where Klooks Kleek was located?

[twoslices]

Above the Railway Tavern in West Hampstead

[ddecto]

wher'd you get the pic of Eric and Jimi

[glaxev]

really sounds like some of claptons earlier blusebreakers stuff.

[janeythebrit]

yum

[Nickyb567]

i have a track where the guitar parts sounds note for note identical to strang brew

[notme98]

this sounds VERY close to crossroads

[musicplusfood]

12 bar blues in A...

this song became strange brew according to clapton's autobiog

[janeythebrit]

it did...slow it down...you can sing Strange Brew to it ! ive got a version of lawdy Mama @in transition'....instruments sound already like they are playin Strange Brew

[eoj115]

this is strange brew... they just changed the lyrics... this is obviously just a live version thats y its so fast, if u listed 2 the studio u can tell all they did is change the vocals...

[Ledvolta]

great. Love this song.