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}}"Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a song recorded in 1967 by British group Cream.BOOK, Welch, Chris, Clapton, 2011, Voyageur Press, 978-1610597715, eBook, It was released as the B-side to the "Strange Brew" single in June 1967.WEB,weblink Cream, Blind Faith, Dominos, 3rd Cream Single, The Eric Clapton Lyric Archive, eric-clapton.co.uk, 27 September 2011, In November, the song was included on Cream's second album, Disraeli Gears.{{Gilliland weblink |Show 53 - String Man. : UNT Digital Library}} The song features one of the earliest uses of a wah-wah pedal, which guitarist Eric Clapton plays throughout the song. Cream's song "White Room" copies the chord progression to a large extent.

Background

The song was the first collaboration between guitarist Eric Clapton and artist Martin Sharp. Clapton composed the music, inspired by the Lovin' Spoonful's 1966 hit "Summer in the City".MAGAZINE, Pemberton, Pat, 2012-06-13, Tales of a Brave Ulysses,weblink 2020-12-09, Rolling Stone, en-US, "I just started chatting to Eric", said Sharp, who lived in the same building. "I told him I had written a poem. He, in turn, told me he'd written some music. So I gave him my poem. Two weeks later, he turned up with it on the B-side of a 45 record.""Sleevenotes â€“ the inside story of a classic album cover", Classic Rock #56, August 2003, p8 Sharp had written the lyrics to the melody of Leonard Cohen's song "Suzanne", specifically the Judy Collins version.MAGAZINE,weblink Tales of a Brave Ulysses - Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, September 15, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20161221054204weblink">weblink December 21, 2016, live, The song was the B-side for "Strange Brew" in June 1967, several months ahead of the group's second album, Disraeli Gears, which included both songs. Cash Box called it a "visionary hard rock excursion."MAGAZINE, CashBox Record Reviews, June 10, 1967, 24, 2022-01-12,weblink Cash Box, AllMusic's Matthew Greenwald calls it, "One of a few overtly psychedelic songs to have aged gracefully ... Lyrically, it's a relatively factual and colorful rendering of the great Greek tragedy Ulysses".In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton recalls:}}The song uses a descending tetrachord bass line of D/C/B/B-flat, which Greenwald describes as "simple but effective". Jack Bruce, on bass, also provides the vocal, and Ginger Baker is on drums.Cream recorded the song at Atlantic Studios in New York City in May 1967, during the sessions for Disraeli Gears. Atlantic brought in engineer Tom Dowd and producer Felix Pappalardi to work with Cream on their next album. For the recording, Clapton used a wah-wah pedal guitar effects unit for the first time.Cream performed the song in concert and a 10 March 1968 recording from Winterland in San Francisco is included on Live Cream Volume II. In May 1968, the group were filmed performing it for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour television programme.BOOK, Schumacher, Michael, Crossroads: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton, 1993, New York City, Crown Trade Paperbacks, 0-517-88118-7, 107,weblink

References

Sources

Hjort, Christopher (2007). Strange Brew: Eric Clapton & the British Blues Boom, 1965â€“1970. London, UK: Jawbone Press. pp. g. 29. {{ISBN|978-1-906002-00-8}}.
ErtegÃ¼n, Ahmet (2006). Classic Albums: Cream â€“ Disraeli Gears (DVD). Eagle Rock Entertainment.

External links

WEB,weblink You've Never Heard Cream's 'Disraeli Gears'?!, Grimm, Beca, 3 February 2011, All Things Considered, 9 September 2016

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