Layla and other assorted love songs

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Whitlock also contributed "Thorn Tree in the Garden", while Clapton brought "I Am Yours" (from a poem by Nizami) and "Layla" (with a coda credited to Jim Gordon). The other band members were Bobby Whitlock (vocals, keyboard), Jim Gordon (drums, percussion), and Carl Radle (bass). 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. It is best known for its title track, " Layla", which is often regarded as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement. Christgau wrote in conclusion: "his meaning is realized at those searing peaks when a pained sense of limits – why does love have to be so sad, I got the bell-bottom blues, Lay-la – is posed against the good times in an explosive compression of form.

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. Tedeschi Trucks Band covered the album in its entirety on 24 August 2019 at Lockn' with Trey Anastasio of Phish and Doyle Bramhall II sitting in. 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 Deluxe Edition of LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS is a stunning repackaging of one of the finest moments in Eric Clapton's career.Surround Sound DVD of the album, a newly remastered In Concert two-CD set, a double LP version of the album, a hardcover book, and a number of other extras. Grouping the Dominos album with recent releases by Bob Dylan, the Beatles and Stephen Stills, Sander added, "It's [Clapton's] instincts, not his talents, that are out of synch, and he is certainly not alone, nor by any means the worst offender, in depositing garbage into the vault of a guaranteed personal audience. Derek and the Dominos grew out of Eric Clapton's frustration with the hype associated with his previous bands, the supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. hours of alternate masters, jams and out-takes from the 20th Anniversary Edition of 1990 (not to mention the tracking sheets included in that box).

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. Because this album is more than 77 minutes it did not fit onto early CDs, which had a maximum play time of approximately 74 and a half minutes.Please, note this deluxe is a repress of the 40th Anniversary 2CD deluxe, so, it doesn’t feature anything new. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Tell the Truth" had been initially recorded with an upbeat tempo in June 1970 with producer Phil Spector. Also as some sort of definitive package, it should have included, for the sake of 2 extra CDs, all the 2.

Writing in Melody Maker, Roy Hollingworth opined that the songs ranged "from the magnificent to a few lengths of complete boredom", and specified: "We have Hendrix's 'Little Wing' played with such spreading beauty that Jimi would surely have clapped till his hands bled, and then we have 'I Am Yours' … a bossa that novas in pitiful directions. Despite this achievement, Layla was viewed as a commercial failure, according to authors Harry Shapiro [17] and Jan Reid.

Actually, one of my favourite features of the album is Bobby Whitlock's magnificent voice all across the album, but mostly in songs like "Keep On Growing", "Anyday" or "It's Too Late".