Layla and other assorted love songs

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In 2003, television network VH1 named Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs the 89th-greatest album of all time. AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised Allman's slide guitar work for "push[ing] Clapton to new heights" and stated, "what really makes Layla such a powerful record is that Clapton, ignoring the traditions that occasionally painted him into a corner, simply tears through these songs with burning, intense emotion. Bobby Whitlock's version of the story is that the tape was rolling non-stop for the entire session, but that Dowd had taken a lavatory break leaving the faders on the mixer down. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is the only studio album by the English–American rock band Derek and the Dominos, released on 9 November 1970 as a double album by Polydor Records and Atco Records.

Clapton wrote later in his autobiography that he and Allman were inseparable during the sessions in Florida; he talked about Allman as the "musical brother I'd never had but wished I did". I didn't bother listening to it first - my friend's recommendations, up to that point, had always been spot on - and anyway, it had "Layla" on it. It was there that they saw "La Fille au Bouquet" (Girl with bouquet), the painting by Émile-Théodore Frandsen de Shomberg which became the cover of Layla. cannot be beaten; as other reviewers have suggested, it appears that unrequited love gave Clapton an extra boost that he could only express in his writing and his guitar on this album. While for those of you who have got to know and love this album well over the years, then this stands as its definitve edition and is highly recommended.Atco Records issued Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs in November 1970 in the United States, [19] with a UK release following in December, on Polydor.

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. But let us draw a veil over that sorry time and move forward to February 2011, when a friend of mine recommended "Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs". The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The album's front cover is credited as "Cover painting by Frandsen-De Schomberg with thanks to his son, Emile, for the abuse of his house". He wrote in conclusion that, "even though this one has the look of a greedy, lazy, slapdash studio session, I think it may be Eric Clapton's most consistent recording . Since its initial reception, Layla has been acclaimed by critics and regarded as Clapton's greatest overall work. As the jam began, he came running back into the control room, still pulling up his trousers and yelling, "Push up the faders!