Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – Derek and the Dominos
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is the only studio album by Derek and the Dominos. Released in November 1970, the double album is best known for its title track, “Layla,” and is often regarded as Eric Clapton’s greatest musical achievement. The other band members were Bobby Whitlock on keyboards and vocals, Jim Gordon on drums, Carl Radle on bass, and special guest performer Duane Allman on lead and slide guitar on 11 of the 14 songs.
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
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The album's front cover is a reproduction of a painting by Emile Théodore Frandsen de Schomberg, titled "La Fille au Bouquet.” Eric Clapton first saw the painting in the South of France and immediately spotted a likeness between the blonde-haired woman it depicted and Pattie Boyd
Number 16 Photo By: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
In the U.S., the album peaked at Number 16 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. It returned to the U.S. albums chart again in 1972, 1974 and 1977, and has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA. It finally debuted on the U.K. Albums Chart in 2011, peaking at Number 68
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The guitar amplifier Eric Clapton used during the recording of the album is a matter of legend. Allegedly, he used a diminutive 5-watt tweed Fender Champ. Made by Fender, it was introduced in 1948 and discontinued in 1982
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The first CD release, manufactured in 1983 in Japan, is a two-CD version. Because the album was more than 77 minutes long, it did not fit onto early CDs, which had a maximum play time of approximately 74 and a half minutes
Thorn Tree in the Garden Photo By: Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images
The last track on the album, "Thorn Tree in the Garden,” was "the perfect stereo recording,” according to producer Tom Dowd. Whitlock, Clapton, Allman, Radle and Gordon sat in a circle in the studio, with the microphone placed in the center as they played live
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In 2000, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2012, the Super Deluxe Edition of the record won a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album
