A great finger-picking song...if I could only pick like Clapton.

It's innocent—-the album cover —-I've seen a million little hippie kids cavorting in the same way—that freedom is at it should be—-we can still get back to the garden

BUT I think it's good that consciousness has been raised  about the abuse of women and children—-consciousness hasn't done much to stop it though, unfortunately.

My love for rock and roll and fringe artists and writers has sometimes  made it so I have to walk a careful line to continue loving Led Zeppelin, Allen Ginsberg, punk rock and some Charles Bukowski I've had to think a lot about men and even love them and forgive them for borderline and (not-so- borderline) bad behavior.

 mandolin wrote: 
Expression is no more stifled now than it was back then - but it's often less intelligent and/or meaningful (not that there's anything profoundly expressive about this album cover). Thanks to contemporary "innovations", any simpleton with a computer can consider themself an artist, musician, or film-maker.  Every village idiot has a public address system these days.

 calypsus_1 wrote:
True
I am just not sure
if it's the music alone
or
the music
together with the memories
we've woven around it
over time

 ziakut wrote: 

Sorry - you mean it....eeeeh, sexually or artwise, zeitgeist-wise, so to speak?
Seriously interested!
To say it right away: I do not see much of art-work on that cover.

The nudity of a 12-year old - I am not from the bible-belt!! - alone is no art for me!
I do not even argue with her nudity.
The nudity of a child serving as more than just a postergirl for late teens,
is something that cannot be art in my opinion, because true art must unit, not part!
Today this poster would certainly NOT be possible,
and, I say, that is ALRIGHT so!

In her hands is,....what? An aeroplane?

Is there a (hi)story behind that "piece", one you know about?
Tell!

SR 

 mandolin wrote: 

Stifled? You mean that "stifled" from the word "STIFF"...?
Is that your sub-concious speaking?
Or just a Freudian thing?

OK - just kidding!

SR

 mandolin wrote: 

Today that would certainly create fuzzy troubles,
just like..., how man years ago, 40 already? Nearly, I bet!

Why do you believe there is much "art" behind this cover?

Do not assume more than I said, please!

Just interested!

 Giselle62 wrote: 

OK - maybe (I actually dislike red-heads, if this falls under "free speech" and nothing else) that is true,
but this is certainly not what "we" (straight-shooters) would like to know...!

SR

 Giselle62 wrote: 
She does!  Looks like she's doing very well, thank you.

 jagdriver wrote: 

You clearly lost your mind!
I laugh my ass off - sorry...!

SR

whoa, sweet set of songs!  and I love how there's a new(ish) song sandwiched between 2 classics

Nick Drake - From the Morning
Shearwater - Whipping Boy
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

I am nearly inclined to give a "10"

 Jeff09 wrote: 
she still has FABULOUS hair!!!

 Jeff09 wrote: 
Thank you Jeff09 (Gainesville, Florida USA), very interesting your search.

 He stopped being "Stevie" Winwood upon his founding of Traffic.

Here she is today...Mariora Goschen (MSc, BA, and BSc) works as a massage therapist and shiatsu practitioner in London.

 ziakut wrote: 
The nudity wouldn't shock many, but the whole genre of album jacket art has virtually disappeared.  Too bad.  It was a fun part of those LPs.

 ziakut wrote: 
...that's really sad to think about; how stifled expression has become...

Here's a question for everyone. Would this Album cover be made today? I think not. Just like most of the movies and tv shows...everything today is too condensed and homogenized and politically correct. I miss the old days!! Great tune.

Interesting. I always thought it was a hood ornament from an Oldsmobile.  A Google image searched yielded some things that were close, but not quite what she is holding. Art indeed. I love all the 1950's rocket themes in cars. Anyone want to lend me a '59 Eldorado?  

 calypsus_1 wrote: 

loved this song back in "69 when i was 13.....love it still at 53!  saw winwood and clapton in concert last year...this song still rocked...even better than 40 years ago!

Cymbal what cymbal,,

Check out the version of this song with Steve Winwod with EC and Derek Trucks on youtube.
As good as you'd expect? No, better!

TOTEMIC song.....just listen.

too good

 davecastillo wrote: 

Damn, I guess I have to join the ranks of the uneducated, because I actually like the Swans cover of this song slightly more than the original.

Marvelous....bravo.
And I'll forgive em the tambourine.

 davecastillo wrote: 
Thank you. NGFY!