New York, NY (Top40 Charts / UMe/Polydor) This November sees the release of 50th Anniversary edition of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, available as a 4LP vinyl box set via UMe/Polydor. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the 1970 double album, the original has been given the 'Half-Speed Mastered' treatment by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios and is completed with a certificate of authentication.
The 50th anniversary 4LP box set, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, is available exclusively through uDiscover and Sound of Vinyl.
Layla is often regarded as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement. The album is notably known for its title track, an evergreen rock classic, which had top ten single chart success in the U.K. and features the dual wailing guitars of Clapton and Duane Allman. Alongside this are a further 2LPs of bonus material some of which has not previously been released on vinyl. All the bonus material across all of LP3 and LP4 is mastered normally (so is not half-speed mastered). The LP set also includes a 12×12 book of sleeve notes taken from the 40th-Anniversary Edition.
In 1970, following the break-up of
Blind Faith and his departure from Delaney & Bonnie, Derek & The Dominos initially formed in the spring of that year. The group comprised
Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals alongside three other former members of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends:
Bobby Whitlock on keyboards, Carl Radle on bass and Jim
Gordon on drums. Derek & The Dominos played their first concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom on June 14, 1970 as part of a U.K. summer tour. During late August to early October they recorded Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, with the Allman Brothers' guitarist Duane Allman sitting in, before returning to a tour of the U.K. and the U.S. until the end of the year. Shortly thereafter the group disbanded but their short time together offered up one of the rock canon's most enduring albums of all time.
From his early days as a guitar icon to a songwriter of great sensitivity, as well as an interpreter of everything from blues and jazz to rock and country music,
Eric Clapton needs little by way of an introduction. As a renowned solo artist in his own right as well as a member of the Yardbirds,
Cream and Derek and the Dominos, he is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and is one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. He has been the recipient of 17 Grammy® Awards, 1 Brit Award and 1 Bafta.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (4LP)
LP1/ LP2
Side A
I Looked Away
Bell Bottom Blues
Keep On Growing
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Side B
I Am Yours
Anyday
Key To The Highway
Side A
Tell The Truth
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?
Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Side B
Little Wing
It's Too Late
Layla
Thorn Tree In The Garden
LP3 / LP4 - Bonus Material (*denotes previously unreleased on vinyl)
Side A
Mean Old World - Layla Session Out-take
Roll It Over - Phil Spector Produced Single B-Side
Tell The Truth - Phil Spector Produced Single A-Side
Side B
It's Too Late* - Live On The
Johnny Cash TV Show, November 5, 1970
Got To Get Better In A
Little While* - Live On The
Johnny Cash TV Show, November 5, 1970
Matchbox with
Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins* - Live On The
Johnny Cash TV Show, November 5, 1970
Blues Power* - Live On The
Johnny Cash TV Show, November 5, 1970
Side A
Snake Lake Blues* - From April/May 1971 Sessions For The Dominos' Second Album
Evil* - From April/May 1971 Sessions For The Dominos' Second Album
Mean Old Frisco* - From April/May 1971 Sessions For The Dominos' Second Album
One More Chance* - From April/May 1971 Sessions For The Dominos' Second Album
Side B
High - From April/May 1971 Sessions For The Dominos' Second Album
Got To Get Better In A
Little While Jam* - From April/May 1971 Sessions For The Dominos' Second Album
Got To Get Better In A
Little While* - From April/May 1971 Sessions For The Dominos' Second Album
