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  Cover Creamwheelsoffirejpeg
  Artist Cream
  From Album Wheels Of Fire
  B-side "Passing the Time"
  Released January 1969
  Format 7" 45 RPM
  Recorded Winterland Ballroom , San Francisco
  Genre Blues Rock
  Length 4:14
  Label Polydor
  Writer Robert Johnson
  Producer Felix Pappalardi
  Last Single " White Room "<br>(1969)
  This Single "'''Crossroads'''"<br>(1969)
  Next Single " Badge "<br>(1969)


"Crossroads", from Cream 's 1968 album '' Wheels Of Fire '', is a famous and influential Blues-rock song. It has become a blues standard for many blues-rock bands.

The song was written by '' (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), especially pages 410 and 411.)

The iconic live recording was captured at the Winterland Ballroom on the 10 March, 1968 and not at the Fillmore as stated by the original '' Wheels Of Fire '' album. It has also been suggested that the released recording is a shortened edit from a much longer rendition, but this has been disproved by a separate Bootleg audience recording available of the entire night's performance.

Unlike Cream's usual arrangement with bassist playing, blurring the line between rhythm and melody, has similarly been honored as the second-best live bass performance of all time.

It was placed at #409 on the 2004 List Of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time .


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