DEREK & THE DOMINOS Layla 2LP RSO 1970 UK re+foc CLAPTON-DUANE ALLMAN-WHITLOCK
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DEREK AND THE DOMINOS
Derek & the Dominos was a group formed by guitarist/singer Eric Clapton with other former members of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, in the spring of 1970. The rest of the lineup was Bobby Whitlock (keyboards, vocals), Carl Radle (bass), and Jim Gordon (drums). The group debuted at the Lyceum Ballroom in London on June 14 and undertook a summer tour of England. From late August to early October, they recorded the celebrated double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (November 1970) with guitarist Duane Allman sitting in. They then returned to touring in England and the U.S., playing their final date on December 6. The Layla album was successful in the U.S., where "Bell Bottom Blues" and the title song charted as singles in abbreviated versions, but it did not chart in the U.K. The Dominos reconvened to record a second album in May 1971, but split up without completing it. Clapton then retired from the music business, nursing a heroin addiction...
"LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS"
<reissue, originally published in 1970>
Produced by Tom Down and The Dominos
2LP RSO RECORDS 2671 110 STEREO
MADE IN ENGLAND 1977 REPRESSING
GATEFOLD COVER
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Price Code: SUPER
LABEL: RSO - CREAM LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear) 2671 110
Catalog on labels:
DISC ONE: 2479-162 A (Set No. 2671 110) / 2479-162 B (SET NO. 2671 110)
DISC TWO: 2479-163 A (Set No. 2671 110) / 2479-163 B (SET NO. 2671 110)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): 2479162 A/1 (Stamped): 2?3?3?5?0?0?9? A//1 ?420 1 1 0 1 4
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): 2479162 B/4 (Stamped): 2?3?3?5?0?0?9? B//3? 4 ?420 04 1 3 1 5
Matrix / Runout (Side C, Etched): 2479163 A/1 (Stamped): 2?3?3?5?0?1?0? A//1?420 1 5
Matrix / Runout (Side D, Etched): 2479163 B/2 (Stamped): 2?3?3?5?0?1?0? B//2?420 1 9 2
On labels: rim text reads "All rights..........prohibited"
Made in England
? 1970 Robert Stigwood Group Ltd.
Executive Producer: Tom Dowd
Produced & Arranged by The Dominos
Marketed by Polydor Limited
On back cover: Tracklist & Credits
Manufactured by Polydor Records Ltd., London
Sleeve printed and made by MacNeill Press Ltd., London, S.E.1
tracklisting
Side A: I LOOKED AWAY - BELL BOTTOM BLUES - KEEP ON GROWING
NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN AND OUT
Side B: I AM YOURS - ANYDAY - KEY TO THE HIGHWAY
Side C: TELL THE TRUTH - WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD? - HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN
Side D: LITTLE WING - IT'S TOO LATE - LAYLA - THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN
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Wishing to escape the superstar expectations that sank Blind Faith before it was launched, Eric Clapton retreated with several sidemen from Delaney & Bonnie to record the material that would form Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. From these meager beginnings grew his greatest album. Duane Allman joined the band shortly after recording began, and his spectacular slide guitar pushed Clapton to new heights. Then again, Clapton may have gotten there without him, considering the emotional turmoil he was in during the recording. He was in hopeless, unrequited love with Pattie Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison, and that pain surges throughout Layla, especially on its epic title track. But what really makes Layla such a powerful record is that Clapton, ignoring the traditions that occasionally painted him into a corner, simply tears through these songs with burning, intense emotion. He makes standards like "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and "Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)" into his own, while his collaborations with Bobby Whitlock -- including "Any Day" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" -- teem with passion. And, considering what a personal album Layla is, it's somewhat ironic that the lovely coda "Thorn Tree in the Garden" is a solo performance by Whitlock, and that the song sums up the entire album as well as "Layla" itself...(AllMusic)
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