Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Occupation
- Guitar / Vocals: Eric Clapton
- Organ / Piano / Vocal / Acoustic Guitar: Bobby Whitlock
- Drums / Percussion / Piano: Jim Gordon
- Bass Guitar / Percussion: Carl Radle
- Guitar (Track 4-14 ): Duane Allman
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is a blues-rock album of the group Derek and the Dominos. It is now one of the greatest rock albums of all time and is regarded as one of the highlights in the career of Eric Clapton.
It was released in December of 1970; the reception by the critics was mixed at this time, as well as the sales figures. The album reached number 16, while it never reached the charts on the Billboard pop album charts in the UK.
2003 took Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 89th on the list of greatest albums of all time the TV channel VH1. That same year, the album reached place 117 in the list of 500 greatest albums of all time of Rolling Stone.
The recording of the album
Most of the songs were created from Clapton and Whitlock's cooperation, but a number of classics was also included, including the Blue Standards " Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out ", " It's Too Late ", " Have You Ever Loved a Woman" ( a song by Billy Myles, who had been originally recorded by Freddie King) and " Key To The Highway".
The latter was only by pure chance on the album - the band heard Sam Samudio in another room of the studio, when he recorded the song for his album Hard and Heavy. They liked him and spontaneously started to play him. Dowd said the technicians to start the recording device, which is also the reason that the song will appear in the middle of the album.
" Tell the Truth " was originally listed as a fast up -beat song in June 1970 and soon afterwards published as a single. During the sessions for Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs " Tell the Truth " was recorded again, as a long and slow instrumental improvisation title. The final version of the song that appeared on the album, is a mix of these two recordings: the awesome speed of the single version was slowed to the comfortable speed of the instrumentals. The two earlier versions were published on The History of Eric Clapton (1972).
Moreover, Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" was included. Clapton decided only to that song on the LP, publish, when he learned of Hendrix's death - as a " tribute to Hendrix "
The long piano coda, which is the second part of the title song "Layla", was written independently by Jim Gordon, who had to be convinced before he was to use his piece permission. "Layla" is still one of the most played rock songs of the 70s.
The last track on the album is a song by Bobby Whitlock, titled " Thorn Tree In The Garden", in which Whitlock sings and accompanies herself on an acoustic guitar.
CD releases
There are five different publications of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs on CD:
Title list
Contributors
- Eric Clapton - Guitars, Lead Vocal
- Bobby Whitlock - Organ, Piano, Vocals, Acoustic guitar
- Jim Gordon - Drums, Percussion, Piano
- Carl Radle - Bass, Percussion
- Duane Allman - Guitars ( tracks 4 through 14)
Production ( Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs )
- Tom Dowd - executive producer
- Ron Albert - Audio engineering
- Chuck Kirkpatrick - Audio engineering
- Howie Albert - Audio engineering
- Carl Richardson - Audio engineering
- Mac Emmerman - Audio engineering
- Dennis M. Drake - machining
- Bruce McCaskill - "All got together"
Production (The Layla Sessions )
- Bill Levenson - producer
- Steve Rinkoff - re-
- Dan Gellert - Tonassistent
- Bob Ludwig - machining
- Scott Hull - Digital Processing
- Gene Santoro - Essay
- Mitchell Kanner - artistic director
- George Lebon - artistic director