Known for its slashing wah-wah guitar solo, pounding drums and halting drug-inspired lyrics, "White Room" remains one of Cream's heavily trafficked songs. Although the wah-wah pedal effect on Eric Clapton's guitar marks it as a product of the late 1960s, "White Room" feels as contemporary as anything in the Cream catalog. The rock song is marked by an unusual sophistication in the lyrics and musical structure. Lyricist Pete Brown wrote "White Room" with bassist/singer Jack Bruce. Brown's carefully measured poetry (doled out in four-syllable phrases) lifts this above so many trippy-nonsense lyrics of the era: "In the white room, with black curtains, near the station, ?Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings" The "White Room" was a new flat (apartment) inhabited … [Read more...]