"Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, along with other masterpieces like John Coltrane's "Impressions", Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz", and Jimi Hendrix's "Electric Ladyland", remains a brilliant monument to its time. But like them, it's no nostalgia piece."
1970 - Um disco visceral do rock. Eric Clapton em um período negro da sua vida produziu a sua obra prima. Avesso a condição de astro do rock, apaixonado loucamente pela mulher de seu melhor amigo, mergulhado no vício das drogas e do álcool, Eric junto com Bob Whitlock, Carl Radle, Jim Gordon e Duane Allman reúnem-se no Criteria Studios em Miami, nos Estados Unidos em outubro de 1970 para começar a gravar um dos melhores disco do rock.
Essa caixa é uma edição especial que comprei em 1990 quando da comemoração de 20 anos do lançamento do álbum. A caixa contém 3 Cds, o disco original, no segundo cd outtakes e versões alternativa e no terceiro cd jams sessions, mais um livreto e também várias partituras com anotações de estúdio.
"Layla was recorded with legendary producer Tom Dowd under the most extreme conditions. Critic Robert Palmer visited the sessions and later recalled, "There was a lot of dope around, especially heroin, and when I showed up, everyone was just spread out on the carpet, nodded out."
"Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" (Clapton, Whitlock) é a minha canção favorita, mostra toda velocidade do Slowhand em magistral solo com Duane Allman.
CD 1
"I Looked Away" (Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock)
"Bell Bottom Blues" (Clapton)
"Keep on Growing" (Clapton)
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox)
"I Am Yours" (Clapton, Nizami)
"Anyday" (Clapton, Whitlock)
"Key to the Highway" (Charles Segar, Willie Broonzy)
"Tell the Truth" (Clapton, Whitlock)
"Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" (Clapton, Whitlock)
"Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (Billy Myles)
"Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix)
"It's Too Late" (Chuck Willis)
"Layla" (Clapton, Jim Gordon)
"Thorn Tree in the Garden" (Whitlock)
CD 2
"Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Alternate Master #1)" (Myles)
"Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Alternate Master #2)" (Myles)
"Tell the Truth (Jam #1) (Clapton, Whitlock)"
"Tell the Truth (Jam #2) (Clapton, Whitlock)"
"Mean Old World (Rehearsal) (Little Walter)"
"Mean Old World (Band Version, Master Take)" (Little Walter)
"Mean Old World (Duet Version, Master Take)" (Little Walter)
"(When Things Go Wrong) It Hurts Me Too (Jam)" (Trad., arr. Mel London)
"Tender Love (Incomplete Master)" (Clapton, Whitlock)
"It's Too Late (Alternate Master)" (Willis)
CD 3
"Jam I" (Clapton, Gordon, Carl Radle, Whitlock)
"Jam II" (Clapton, Gordon, Radle, Whitlock)
"Jam III" (Clapton, Gordon, Radle, Whitlock)
"Jam IV" (Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Clapton, Whitlock)
"Jam V" (Duane Allman, Clapton, Gordon, Radle, Whitlock)
Jim Gordon (bateria), Carl Radle (baixo), Bob Whitlock (organ, vocal), Eric Clapton (guitarra)
"In his 1985 interview in Rolling Stone Magazine Clapton told Robert Palmer that the sessions for a follow-up LP to Layla "broke down halfway through because of the paranoia and the tension. And the band just... dissolved."
Patti Boyd por quem Clapton se apaixonou e que inspirou o álbum Layla. Na época esposa do beatle George Harrison.
