"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.
Origin and meaning
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."
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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]
Cover versions
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 who tapped Yvonne Elliman to sing the song during his 1976–77 concert tours.[4][5]
American blues guitarist Bonnie Raitt sang the song during her 1972 concert series.[6] A bootleg recording with Raitt, Lowell George, John P. Hammond and Freebo has more than five million views on YouTube.[7]
Two notable versions have been heard on screen: one by American singer Alana Davis in 1999's The Mod Squad film,[8] and another by American bluegrass singer Alison Krauss for the 2003 soundtrack of Crossing Jordan, a television series.[9]
