ARTiST: Derek & The Dominos
ALBUM: Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
BiTRATE: 184kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: Polydor
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 189.53 megs
PLAYTiME: 2h 15min 37sec total
RiP DATE: 2011-03-18
STORE DATE: 2011-03-18
Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. I Looked Away 3:07
02. Bell Bottom Blues 5:04
03. Keep On Growing 6:23
04. Nobody Knows You When You're 5:00
Down And Out
05. I Am Yours 3:37
06. Anyday 6:37
07. Key To The Highway 9:40
08. Tell The Truth 6:41
09. Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? 4:44
10. Have You Ever Loved A Woman? 6:54
11. Little Wing 5:36
12. It's Too Late 3:52
13. Layla 7:06
14. Thorn Tree In The Garden 2:50
Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. Mean Old World 3:50
02. Roll It Over 4:32
03. Tell The Truth 3:25
04. It's Too Late 4:11
05. Got To Get Better In A Little 6:35
While
06. Matchbox 3:56
07. Blues Power 6:34
08. Snake Lake Blues 3:35
09. Evil 4:35
10. Mean Old Frisco 4:07
11. One More Chance 3:17
12. Got To Get Better In A Little 3:45
While
13. Got To Get Better In A Little 6:04
While
Release Notes:
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In 1970, Eric Clapton was known as æGodÆ for his guitar virtuosity in a
succession of groups. One thing for which he was not renowned was songs, either
in quantity or quality. The epic, anguished title-track of the debut album of
his new band project Derek and the Dominos changed that forever.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs has already been the subject of Other
Assorted Releases in which the briefly-lived DominosÆ legacy has been padded out
with remasters, remixes and bonus tracks. This 40th anniversary Super Deluxe
Edition features the original double album, the posthumous In Concert album,
singles cuts, a TV show appearance, studio outtakes, projected second album
tracks, an audio-only Surround Sound DVD and a vinyl LP û and still doesn't
manage to round up all the previously released Dominos material.
Those who only know the signature song may be surprised by the Layla album,
which is largely made up of mid-tempo and sometimes even slightly soporific
blues work-outs, albeit adorned by almost impossibly brilliant instrumentation.
Highlights are the quietly worshipful I Am Yours, the funky, fast-rapping Why
Does Love Got to Be So Sad?, an unexpectedly fine version of Jimi HendrixÆs
ostensibly unimprovable Little Wing and Thorn Tree in the Garden, even if ending
the album with the latter fragile Bobby Whitlock composition is overegging the
pudding following the mellow piano outro of the title-track.
Despite his importance to the album, guitarist Duane Allman was technically only
a guest performer, so his absence from In Concert is at least understandable,
whereas LaylaÆs is unforgivable, especially in light of the idiotic presence of
the 18-minute Let It Rain, one of several cuts that vastly outstays its welcome.
The miscellany disc is predictably mixed (and indeed sometimes remixed), though
the Johnny Cash Show appearances are marked by some zip.
Layla stands not just head and shoulders above anything else here but much else
in the rock canon, sounding as moving and anguished as a song thatÆs rooted in
the agony of falling in unrequited love with the wife of a best friend should.
The flashing dagger of a riff is one of the finest in history and Clapton duels
magnificently with both his overdubbed self and Allman before an exhausted
piano-based second act. It almost makes us forget that it constitutes a rather
narrow foundation stone for an increasingly massive edifice.