Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

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Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Studio album by Derek and the Dominos

Publication
(s)

December 1970

Label (s) Polydor Records , Atco Records

Format (s)

LP, CD, SACD

Genre (s)

Rock / blues

Title (number)

14th

running time

76:43

occupation

production

Tom Dowd

Studio (s)

Criteria Studios , Miami

chronology
- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs In Concert
(1973)

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is a blues-rock album by the group Derek and the Dominos . It was released in December 1970; the reception by the critics at the time was mixed, as was the sales figures. The album reached number 16 on the Billboard 200 and is considered one of the highlights of Eric Clapton's career .

In 2003 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs ranked 89th on VH1's list of the greatest albums of all time . In the same year, the album reached number 117 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 best albums of all time .

The recording of the album

Most of the songs were born out of Eric Clapton's and Bobby Whitlock's collaboration, but there are also a number of classics including the blues 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 , which was originally recorded by Freddie King ) and Key to the Highway . The latter came on the album by chance - the band was listening to Sam Samudio in another room of the studio when he was recording the song for his album Hard and Heavy . They liked him and spontaneously started playing him. Dowd let the technicians start the recording devices, which is why the song fades in in the middle of the album.

Tell the Truth was originally recorded as a fast up-beat song in June 1970 and released as a single shortly thereafter . During the sessions for Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs , Tell the Truth was re-recorded - as a long and slow instrumental improvisational track . The final version of the song, which also appeared on the album, is a mixture of these two recordings: the speed of the single version has been slowed down to the more leisurely pace of the instrumental. The two earlier versions were published on The History of Eric Clapton (1972).

Also included was Jimi Hendrix 's Little Wing . Clapton only decided to put the song on LP when he heard of Hendrix's death - as a "bow to Hendrix". The long piano coda , which is the second part of the title song Layla , was written independently by Jim Gordon, who first had to be convinced before giving permission to use his piece. Layla is still one of the most played rock songs of the 1970s. The last track on the album is a song by Bobby Whitlock called Thorn Tree in the Garden, with Whitlock singing and accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar.

Track list

Page 1:

  1. I Looked Away ( Eric Clapton , Bobby Whitlock ) - 3:04
  2. Bell Bottom Blues (Clapton) - 5:06
  3. Keep On Growing (Clapton, Whitlock) - 6:22
  4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Jimmie Cox) - 4:57

Page 2:

  1. I Am Yours (Clapton, Nizami ) - 3:32
  2. Anyday (Clapton, Whitlock) - 6:37
  3. Key to the Highway (Charles Segar, Willie Broonzy ) - 9:47

Page 3:

  1. Tell the Truth (Clapton, Whitlock) - 6:45
  2. Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad? (Clapton, Whitlock) - 4:50
  3. Have You Ever Loved a Woman ( Billy Myles ) - 6:51

Page 4:

  1. Little Wing ( Jimi Hendrix ) - 5:23
  2. It's Too Late ( Chuck Willis ) - 3:45
  3. Layla (Clapton, Jim Gordon ) - 7:10
  4. Thorn Tree in the Garden (Whitlock) - 2:51

Contributors

Musician

Production (Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs)

  • Tom Dowd - executive producer
  • Ron Albert, Chuck Kirkpatrick, Howie Albert, Carl Richardson & Mac Emmerman - sound engineering
  • Dennis M. Drake - editing
  • Frandsen-de Schonberg - Cover painting
  • Bruce McCaskill - "All got together"

Production (The Layla Sessions)

  • Bill Levenson - producer
  • Steve Rinkoff - sound mix
  • Dan Gellert - sound assistant
  • Bob Ludwig - Mastering
  • Scott Hull - Digital processing
  • Gene Santoro - essay
  • Mitchell Kanner - Artistic Director
  • George Lebon - design

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 111
  2. ↑ Rolling Stone Music : 500 Greatest Albums of All Time / 101-200 (accessed November 10, 2014)
  3. ↑ 25 Albums That Changed the World !, page 85
  4. ↑ Peter Wicke: Layla . In: Song Lexicon . Retrieved July 28, 2014.