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Eric Clapton was in pain. Deep pain. He was hopelessly in love with Pattie Boyd, the wife of his close friend George Harrison, and there was little he could do about it. Hence, Clapton did what any relatively desperate artist would to express his innermost feelings about the situation—he created an alternate identity (Derek), gathered a semi-fictional band around him (The Dominos), and channeled all of his heartache into a triumphant, sprawling double album, November 1970's Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "MTV Unplugged – Eric Clapton | Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 30 December 2015. The magic that ensued was breathtaking. The fusion of guitar playing – mainly Clapton on rhythm/lead and Allman on slide – is among the highest level of proficiency seen at one set of sessions. The rest of the band are tight throughout and captivate a bluesy, jamming feel. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Initially regarded as a critical and commercial disappointment, it failed to chart in Britain and peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. It returned to the US albums chart again in 1972, 1974 and 1977, and has since been certified Gold by the RIAA. The album finally debuted on the UK Albums Chart in 2011, peaking at number 68. In 2000, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2003, television network VH1 named Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs the 89th-greatest album of all time. In the same year, Rolling Stone ranked it number 117 on its list of " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [1] It was ranked at number 226 on the 2020 reboot of the list. [2] It was voted number 287 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). [3] In 2012, the Super Deluxe Edition of Layla won a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album.Colin Larkin, ed. (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rded.). Virgin Books. p.122. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6. to 7. Recorded November 5, 1970 at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee. Remixed August 2010. The band played their first live show at Lyceum Ballroom on London on June 14, 1970 as part of a summer tour of the UK. The band went on to record Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs between late August and early October, with the additional weighty presence of Allman Brothers’ guitarist Allman. When recording was complete, they returned to the road for US and UK tours. Sadly the band didn’t last much longer, but they left behind a memorable recorded statement. Now we come to the crux of the matter. Taking the album title in its entirety, this is a collection of love songs sung to one woman. And Clapton’s vocals show it: there is a rawness throughout, evoking emotions through both power and tenderness, marking a definite step up from his vocals on that self-titled album.

Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "MTV Unplugged – Eric Clapton | Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 30 December 2015. a b "ARIA End Of Year Singles 1993". Top 50 Australian Singles Chart. Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018 . Retrieved 14 September 2018. () Perhaps the best cover is of blues and guitar legend Freddie King’s Have You Ever Loved A Woman. The guitar work from both men is infectious and the song contains perhaps the most apt lyric of all: “You just love that woman/So much it’s a shame and a sin/But all the time you know/She belongs to your very best friend.” A masterpiece As well as the remastered album, the box set contains two further LPs of bonus material, some of it previously unreleased on vinyl. This includes recordings from the spring 1971 sessions for their unrealized second album. The bonus material across the third and fourth LPs is mastered normally, rather than at half-speed, and the box also includes a 12” x 12” book of sleeve notes from the 40th anniversary edition of 2010.

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The super-deluxe box adds another set of nice treats for fans: the album on double vinyl, a DVD featuring 5.1 surround remixes of the album (plus “Mean Old World”), and another two discs encapsulating the band’s stand at The Fillmore East in the fall of 1970. (The original double album from these dates, 1973′s In Concert, form the groundwork for this part of the set, and each disc is augmented with four bonus songs first released on Live at The Fillmore, a 1994 live set that took different performances from those concerts.) The whole set is housed in a box featuring pop-up artwork, reproduced swag and a new hardcover book. a b c d e f "100 Greatest Guitar Solos: 14.) Layla (Eric Clapton, Duane Allman)". Guitar World. 28 October 2008. Archived from the original on 31 August 2009 . Retrieved 15 September 2009. Top 40 Jaargang 28, 1992". GfK Entertainment (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 . Retrieved 29 December 2015. Derek and the Dominos went on tour to support Layla and performances from the October–December 1970 US tour were released in January 1973 on In Concert. Allman never toured with Derek and the Dominos, but made two guest appearances with them: on 1 December 1970 at the Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa ( Soul Mates bootleg LP) and the following day at Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse, New York.

It was the true fusion of American blues and jazz with The British Invasion," Layla executive producer Tom Dowd told me in 1992. (He passed away a decade later.) "Here we had two different cultures coming together—the common denominator being the old blues masters— and instead of clashing, their styles met head on. And it kept on growing, like top seed." Stein, Sadie (15 May 2015). "Listening to Layla". The Paris Review. Theparisreview.org . Retrieved 3 January 2016. Recorded June 25, 1970 at Abbey Road Studios, London during sessions for George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass". Remixed at House Of Music, New Jersey, September 1987. DeRogatis, Jim (23 September 2001). "The Great Albums – Derek and the Dominos, Layla (A&M, 1970)". Chicago Sun-Times. p.14 . Retrieved 24 February 2013.Official Singles Chart Top 75". Official Charts Company. Official Charts. 27 September 1992 . Retrieved 29 December 2015.

a b c "The Irish Charts – All there is to know". Irish Recording Music Association . Retrieved 29 December 2015. Eric Ortiz: One of my favourite albums featuring two of my favourite guitar players. Duane really lit a fire in Eric at a time when he was at a all time low, and it shows. Price, Randy (15 May 1971). "Cash Box Top 100 Singles 1971". Cash Box Magazine. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012 . Retrieved 2 January 2016.Eric Clapton – Layla (Acoustic)". Ultratop (in Dutch). Steffen Hung – Hung Medien . Retrieved 29 December 2015.