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Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
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Price: $7.99
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731453182028
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Polydor / Umgd
Manufacturer: Polydor / Umgd
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Polydor / Umgd
Release Date: 1996-08-20
Studio: Polydor / Umgd
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Clapton + Allman = timeless
Comment: I absolutely love this album. It sounds as good today as it did over 30 years ago! Clapton has always worn his heart on his sleeve in his songs and never does it better than this....his voice and guitar filled with angst and passion mixed up with Allman's guitar and vocals is the best. Revisiting it gave me chills.
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Summary: Derek's Only Surviving Domino...
Comment: This was one of the 1st CDs I bought just before I bought my 1st CD player and it remains one of my favorite CDs to this day. I have to admit, I bought it solely for "Layla", which is my all-time favorite song along with "Bell Bottom Blues", "I Looked Away" and "Anyday". I read through a lot of the reviews written about this CD on here and I'm appalled that most every one of these reviews gave Clapton so much credit for ALL the songs. There were several reviews that I read out of many that were posted on here that gave Bobby Whitlock credit for the FIVE songs that he co-wrote with Clapton, not to mention the last song, "Thorn Tree In The Garden", which is solely Bobby's song. Not one person who has written a review on this site concerning this song knows what REAL meaning is behind it - it is NOT about a lost lover. For all of those who wrote that they were wondering what happened to Bobby and if he's okay - Bobby and his wife CoCo have a regular gig here in Austin, TX and at each and every one of their gigs, Bobby tells his audience the story behind "Thorn Tree In The Garden" before they perform it. If you want to know the REAL meaning and the story behind it and the other Domino songs told by Bobby himself, you'll have to come to Austin to find out because I'm not sharing! You can also see what Bobby and his wife have been up to on his MS page. Bobby deserves just as much recognition as Eric and the rest of the "Dominos"!
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Summary: Classic Clapton.
Comment: Whenever I need my fix of classic 1970s' rock, I always turn to this album. After touring as a sideman with Delaney and Bonnie, Eric Clapton formed Derek and the Dominos out of Delaney and Bonnie's rhythm section (Bobby Whitlock, keyboards and vocals; Carl Radle, bass; and Jim Gordon, drums) and The Allman Brothers' guitarist, Duane Allman, and then released the penultimate rock love song, "Layla," which takes centerstage on this iconic rock album. Inspired by his then-unrequited love for model Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison, Clapton took the name "Layla" from Nezami Ganjavi's poem, "Layla and Majnun," which tells the story of a young man who goes crazy after falling in love with a beautiful, unavailable woman.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is undeniably one of the ten greatest rock and roll albums of all time, and with the dual guitars of Allman and Clapton, it features Clapton at his best. The album is a collection of blues standards ("Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out," "It's Too Late," "Have You Ever Loved A Woman," and "Key To The Highway"), jams ("Tell the Truth"), and as the title suggests, "Other Assorted Love Songs" ("Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad," "Bell Bottom Blues," "Layla"). Ironically the album was in production at the time of Jimi Hendrix's drug-overdose. (A reverent cover of "Little Wing" was included on the album in tribute to Hendrix.) In fact, the album is eerily surrounded by death and drug addiction. (Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident soonafter the album release; Gordon later murdered his mother in a psychotic rage; and Clapton was addicted to heroin.) Unrequited love, incendiary guitar, drugs, and unexpected death: this album is definitive 70s' rock and roll. The complete album tracklist includes:
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
G. Merritt
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gorgeous!
Comment: I've never been a big fan of Eric Clapton. His work with Cream, while enjoyable, was never as mind blowing to me, as it seems to be to many other listeners. And that is what makes my love of this album all the more stunning. A mix of originals and revitalized blues classics, this album is very strong, from front to back. "I Looked Away" and "Bell Bottom Blues" are both great openers, while covers of "Key to the Highway" and "Little Wing" are both familiar, while still very innovative in their treatment. The only flaw to be found is that the band was short lived, and no follow-up to this masterpiece was ever created.
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Summary: layla is a must own album
Comment: There's a reason people consider Layla and other Assorted Love Songs a classic album. It's because it IS!
The album has a variety of moods and is mostly a songwriting album, and for those of you who are sick of hearing the song "Layla" on radio stations all the time, you should check out the album anyway, because there's a lot more here to enjoy besides that same overplayed song all the time.
I love Clapton's singing on the opening track "I Looked Away". Really emotional singing style with a brilliant vocal melody. "Bell Bottom Blues" is thankfully no longer a radio staple, which means the song still remains fresh and will continue to remain fresh as many times as you feel like playing it. "Keep on Growing" features some excellent guitar soloing that really proves the album has some variety, since the first three songs are drastically different from each other.
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" is a powerful slow blues rocker. It's not boring either. I like the lyrics too. The lyrics are exactly what you'd expect, packed with some emotions to elevate it WAY above average. "When you finally get up on your feet again, everyone wants to be your long lost friend". Amazing! Some of the guitar soloing near the end is quite fantastic.
"I Am Yours" is just a really nice song. It stands out in a positive way, just being so simple and pleasant. "Anyday" is a big WOW song, because the vocals and guitar playing is really sweet. "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad" is the same way.
The final song I want to mention is "Key to the Highway". It's a stomping blues track that's not really anything like the other blues number on here (the "Nobody Knows" track I mean). It's a really good song.
Just buy the album already!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Layla stands as one of a handful of pillars of classic rock. The short-lived ensemble that was the Dominos provided an outlet for Eric Clapton to vent his then unrequited (and secret) passion for the wife of his best friend, George Harrison. Romantic anguish inspired Clapton to write and collect an embroiling and interconnected song cycle. Meanwhile, latecomer Duane Allman prodded Clapton to tear it up on guitar, so as not to be overwhelmed by his even more talented foil. Of course, Clapton eventually won the hand of his lady love. And then he divorced her. Sometimes real life messes up a good plot line. --Steve Stolder
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