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In 1970, Eric Clapton was known as ‘God’ 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 Dominos’ 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 – 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 Hendrix’s 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 Layla’s 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 that’s 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.
--Sean Egan
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Layla and other assorted lovesongs: Derek and the Dominoes - Why does love got to be so sad?
10 May 2012
Format:Audio CD
Eric Clapton has always recorded his best music in the face of adversity. In his John Mayall and especially n his Cream days it was the adversity of trying to make a mark amongst other talented musicians. In his early solo career it was the adversity of fighting his heroin addiction. Here, in the gap between the break up of Blind Faith and his first solo projects, it is the adversity of a painful love for another man's wife that drives him, mixed in, one feels, with the need to subsume himself into the relative anonymity of a band.
It is a record in which Clapton is really pushed. He has a wealth of emotion to pour out and commit to vinyl, he seems totally inspired. But he is also accompanied by another guitar god Duane Allman, and the resulting duel between the two is exhilarating. The record reaches it's apotheosis with the cathartic Layla at the end, where all of the elements combine to produce a perfect, draining and exhausting finale that has rightly gone down in music history.
This is the 2011 Polydor release, with a decent remastering that gives it a clean and clear sound, and one bonus track in the form of `Thorn tree in the garden', a contemporary track in the same lovelorn vein as the rest of the album. 4 stars.
It is a record in which Clapton is really pushed. He has a wealth of emotion to pour out and commit to vinyl, he seems totally inspired. But he is also accompanied by another guitar god Duane Allman, and the resulting duel between the two is exhilarating. The record reaches it's apotheosis with the cathartic Layla at the end, where all of the elements combine to produce a perfect, draining and exhausting finale that has rightly gone down in music history.
This is the 2011 Polydor release, with a decent remastering that gives it a clean and clear sound, and one bonus track in the form of `Thorn tree in the garden', a contemporary track in the same lovelorn vein as the rest of the album. 4 stars.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The original CD is worth owning. If you've got it then four tracks from the Johnny Cash show, one with Carl Perkins, might be worth the candle, otherwise my vote is the original plus Live at Fillmore. The continuity is there in both - whereas the "deluxe" extras are an aural mishmash.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I have followed Clapton for years and travelled many times to see and hear him. Hard to believe this was early EC. I bought it to complete my collection
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