Track Listing 1. I Looked Away 2. Bell Bottom Blues 3. Keep on Growing 4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 5. I Am Yours 6. Anyday 7. Key to the Highway 8. Tell the Truth 9. Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad? 10. Have You Ever Loved a Woman 11. Little Wing 12. It's Too Late 13. Layla 14. Thorn Tree in the Garden
| Details | | Producer: | Derek & The Dominos, Tom Dowd | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. Derek & The Dominos: Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar); Bobby Whitlock (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, organ); Duane Allman (guitar); Jim Gordon (piano, drums, percussion); Carl Radle (bass guitar, percussion). Recording information: Atlantic South-Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida (08/30/1970 - 09/10/1970). 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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