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| Released: 1970 Label: Polydor Eric Clapton vs. Duane Allman! Their one & only album puts the ?classic? in classic rock. Layla, Bell Bottom Blues, Anyday, Little Wing, etc. 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 Album Review Wishing to escape the superstar expectations that sank Blind Faith before it was launched, Eric Clapton retreated with several sidemen from Delaney & Bonnie to record the material that would form "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs". From these meager beginnings grew his greatest album. Duane Allman joined the band shortly after recording began, and his spectacular slide guitar pushed Clapton to new heights. Then again, Clapton may have gotten there without him, considering the emotional turmoil he was in during the recording. He was in hopeless, unrequited love with Patti Boyd Harrison, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison, and that pain surges throughout "Layla", especially on its epic title track. But 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. He makes standards like "Have You Ever Loved A Woman" and "Nobody Knows You When You'Re Down And Out" his own, while his collaborations with Bobby Whitlock -- including "Anyday" and "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?" -- teem with passion. And, considering what a personal album "Layla" is, it's somewhat ironic that the lovely coda "Thorn Tree In The Garden" is a solo vocal performance by Whitlock, and that the song sums up the entire album as well as "Layla" itself. [In 2004, "Layla" was released as a hybrid SACD with a Surround Sound mix that placed the listener in the center of the action, but even on a normal CD player this version gained in clarity and separation, adding nuance and detail to the classic performances and allowing the album to be heard anew.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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