Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
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Free Music Review: A Classic Album . . .
Hit: 5 Stars
by an all-star group of musicians. Using several members of the Delaney & Bonnie group of the 1960s/1970s, adding in Duane Allman and topping it off with Eric Clapton yielded a powerful, memorable group named Derek & The Dominos. It released just this one album, but what a way to come in and go out. "Layla," of course, is known as the prime cut on the album, and itself is a classic song, but the other thirteen cuts contain a host of other great songs, such as "Anyday," "I Looked Away," "Key To The Highway," and many more. It's an excellently performed, mixed and memorable album that is a terrific addition to any collection.Free Music Review: Overrated Tripe
Hit: 1 Stars
When this first came out I thought it was embarrassing crap. Imagine someone ripping off Delaney and Bonnie! Now the passage of years confirms it. Sentimental, adolescent, heart-on-sleeve stupidity with pretty lousy guitar work -- all unmelodic fills w/ Clapton's new-found Stratocaster fixation. Yuk. There's more filler here -- crummy versions of blues classics -- than a rusted out Chevy. Everyone who knows anything knows that BLUES BREAKERS and the 1st CREAM were, essentially, IT for Clapton. Well, w/ the Arabic origins of LAYLA we now know that if Clapton's God, he must serve Allah, right? I thought that was Cat Stevens, in whose class Clapton must be considered. One of the records that ushered in the sickening indulgences of 70s rock and stomped on the legacy of the 60s. Oh, the rhythm section's pretty good. Rock and roll for those who don't rock and roll, hence selection as one of the GREATS. Thank you ROLLING STONE, or whoever. Free Music Review: tan delicado como la huella que deja una lagrima en la mejilla de la mujer que no tenes y tan rabioso como el deseo de tenerla.
Hit: 5 Stars
el dolor, la ausencia y la rabia cada tanto pueden juntarse en el escote deseado de una mujer y crear una de las obras mas desgarradoras y sinceras de todas las epocas...si a esto le sumas la fragilidad exquisita del slide de duanne, la inspiracion brutal de clapton y una banda donde apoyar todo este sufrimiento...que sentis? si, posiblemente sientas eso..aspero parto de canciones humedas de llanto, endurecidas de rencor y enmarcadas en un album imprescindible e inolvidable. Free Music Review: Heartbreak Leads To Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS, Eric Clapton's best album ever, was born from a love triangle between Clapton, his best friend (George Harrison), and the best friend's wife (Patti Boyd Harrison). The heartbreak and hurt Clapton felt when Patti chose to return to her husband led to a mix of hurt-charged originals and appropriate cover tunes, and when Duane Allman joined in on slide guitar, the result was the finest work of Clapton's career. It is not unconstitutional for towns to require community service from people who see this album as a mere emotional statement of love denied before letting them buy land. Instead, it is proper to view this CD as Clapton taking the forms of the blues and making them his own, with Delta, Memphis, Texas, Great Plains, British, and Chicago blues influences being mixed into an original vision that transcends most other white blues records ever made (the only equals being Robin Trower, the Allman Brothers Band, ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack, early Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, and John Mayall). In other words, this CD is about more than just unrequited love; it's about a transcendence of a whole musical form. Bobby Whitlock's equally soulful vocals rival Clapton's for pure soul and emotion. This album shows why I feel that if a person claims that Englishmen can't play the blues, his/her kids should have to complete hundreds of community service hours before graduation from high school as payment for their parents' provincial attitudes. LAYLA, especially its title song, in which Clapton digs so deep that it's the aural equivalent of witnessing a suicide or an exorcism, shows that British blues is just as valid musically as anything by B.B. King or the Allman Brothers. Free Music Review: An anthological compilation!
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is a must-have for all those who are really interested to know about the second stage of this legendary guitarist after Cream' s dissolution. After a brief withdrawal when recorded that fabulous album with Blind Faith, Clapton decided to join forces with the Dominos, and the results are shown here spanning from 1969 to 1970. One of the main highlights of this album was the radiant supporting team, conformed by Duane Allman, Carl Radle in bass and percussion and Jim Gordon in the drums.
You may appreciate the gradual evolution and the expansiveness of his musical thinking along every track. He knew to blend the best of his feeling, and craft with commercial taste. Bell bottom blues, for instance was a piece that was completely ignored in commercial circuits. Keep on growing is a solid theme. Filled of vigor and full rhythm, please beware about the fabulous rhythmical section. "Nobody knows you when you're down and out" is a classical blues composed by Jimmie Cox, played with incisive rapture "Tell the truth" is another formidable classic blues, played with flaming passion and filled of expression.
Of course you will listen the evanescent version of Wings and the most commercial success of this ensemble: Layla
But when you listen Have you ever loved a woman? , you will have come to one the most distinguished and extraordinary blues of anytime. A sidereal blues that still captives and engages every emerging generation of new listeners. This is without discussion, the jewel of the crown.
In sum, a wise choice that will help you to know still more the invaluable contribution that Clapton has conferred the rock, country, blues and the music in general.