Track Listing
1. Anyday
2. Tell the Truth
3. Thorn Tree in the Garden
4. Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad
5. It's Too Late
6. Keep on Growing
7. Layla
8. Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)
9. Little Wing
10. I Am Yours
11. Bell Bottom Blues
12. Key to the Highway
13. Have You Ever Loved a Woman?
14. I Looked Away
| Details | | Playing Time: | 77 min. | | Producer: | Derek & The Dominos, Tom Dowd | | Distributor: | n/a | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
In the years after Cream disbanded and his collaboration with Steve Winwood in Blind Faith had sunk, Eric Clapton teamed with keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, drummer Jim Gordon, bassist Carl Radle, and guitarist Duane Allman under the name Derek & the Dominos to write and record some new material. The result was this 1970 masterpiece. Shot through with a passion informed by the tumultuous nature of Clapton's own life and career at the time, LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS plays like a primer for classic rock, with incendiary dueling guitars, swirling organ, blues-styled vocals, and punchy bass and drums.
Covers of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and Hendrix's "Little Wing" are given fresh interpretations, and the originals, most of which Clapton co-wrote with Whitlock, are by turns fierce, melancholic, and celebratory. The epic "Layla," clocking in at seven minutes and featuring blazing solos all around, pushes the album to its culmination. Throughout, Clapton's playing, spurred by Allman's stellar leads, is beautiful enough to induce cardiac arrest, and LAYLA ranks among the most inspired, soulful, and affecting works in his entire discography.
Editorial Reviews
5 Stars (out of 5) - ...a masterpiece...
Q (11/01/1996)
4 stars out of 5 - Allman's promethean qualities totally transformed both the ambition and the execution of the record.
Uncut
5 star out of 5 - [A] masterpiece....Clapton rocks harder on [these] tracks than he's done before or since...
Rolling Stone
Ranked #115 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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