Layla and other assorted love songs

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When Clapton learned of this he insisted on going to see their show, saying, "You mean that guy who plays on the back of ( Wilson Pickett's) 'Hey Jude'? The album failed to chart in the United Kingdom, [20] while in the US, it peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. Album: Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Universal)". The first disc has the same tracks as the original LP, remixed in stereo from the 16-track analog source tapes and digitally remastered.

The last track on the album, "Thorn Tree in the Garden", was recorded with Whitlock, Clapton, Allman, Radle and Gordon sitting in a circle around a single microphone. Passionate, powerful and at times incredibly moving, LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS may still touch a raw nerve with Eric Clapton - the album's lack of success deeply disappointed him, and his involvement in this reissue has apparently been minimal - but it just goes to show that screaming guitars, soul-baring vocals and a little heartache are just the ticket when it comes to producing some incredible rock music. Of course, it wouldn't be fair to put all the glory on Clapton's shoulders here: as I said above, this is one of these albums that honor the word "supergroup" better than any other around, where they are generally just a collection of names.The two-CD "Deluxe" edition features five previously unreleased tracks, "It's Too Late", " Got to Get Better in a Little While", "Matchbox" (with Carl Perkins) and "Blues Power" (from The Johnny Cash Show) and a jam version of "Got to Get Better in a Little While". The Prince of Love … Or How the Recording of 'Layla', Clapton's Ode to Forbidden Love, Made Victims of Derek and the Dominos". Concerned that the press and the public were unaware of Clapton's involvement, Atco and Polydor distributed badges reading "Derek is Eric". A bootleg was made of the Mono Promo a few years ago and I think its a scam because it's just a fold down. Clapton attempted to avoid the limelight under cover of the anonymous "Derek and the Dominos", with whom he played a tour of small clubs in Britain during the first three weeks of August.

The remix has some significant changes including center placement of the bass, which in the original mix was often mixed into either the left or right channel.While he identified portions of "pretty atrocious vocal work", Hollingworth considered Layla to be "far more musical" than Eric Clapton, and praised Clapton and Allman for "giv[ing] about every superb essay possible on the playing of the electric guitar". This release contains three different 24-bit/96 kHz encodings of the stereo mix, in PCM, DTS-HD Master Audio and Dolby TrueHD formats, each with a slightly different EQ, but did not include either 5. It is best known for its title track, " Layla", which is often regarded as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement. As irregular as Clapton's career has been, there are however some albums that made him deserve his legendary status as one of the finest blues rock guitar players ever. Since its initial reception, Layla has been acclaimed by critics and regarded as Clapton's greatest overall work.

It is a beautiful package comprising as it does 4 CDs, including the full Fillmore East set, a DVD-Audio containing an unreleased 5. It suffices to say that Layla itself and the long slow blues tunes like Key to the Highway are my favourites. If you want the history, Eric was madly in love with his best mate's wife Patti Boyd Harrison, and to give him credit, he finally bagged her. I don't think it's exaggeration to say this is one of the greatest "supergroup" albums ever (if not the greatest) and rightly so.Bobby Whitlock revealed in an interview that while they were staying at Emile Frandsen's house in France in August 1970, he took them to his father's studio just after they had made a mess by having an egg fight.