Style: Blues-Rock
DEREK & THE DOMINOS – LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS 24-96 Vinyl Rip
Label: RSO
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 1970
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Classic Rock
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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, 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)" into his own, while his collaborations with Bobby Whitlock -- including "Any Day" 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 performance by Whitlock, and that the song sums up the entire album as well as "Layla" itself.
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine / allmusic
For those in eternal search for the PERFECT LAYLA :
THIS IS THE VINYL LAYLA (herewith) :
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THIS IS the www.hdtracks.com LAYLA (to be found here: http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2675202/11002952/) :
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NOTE : Those who can not resist not comparing the both - DO NOT FORGET TO MATCH THE VOLUME LEVELS before attempting any comparison!
TRACKLIST
SIDE A:
A1 I Looked Away
Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton
3:04
A2 Bell Bottom Blues
Written-By – Eric Clapton
5:06
A3 Keep On Growing
Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton
6:22
A4 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
Written-By – Jimmie Cox*
4:57
SIDE B:
B1 I Am Yours
Written-By – Eric Clapton, Nizami
3:32
B2 Anyday
Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton
6:37
B3 Key To The Highway
Written-By – Willie Broonzy*, Charles Segar
9:47
SIDE C:
C1 Tell The Truth
Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton
6:45
C2 Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?
Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton
4:50
C3 Have You Ever Loved A Woman
Written-By – Billy Myles
6:51
SIDE D:
D1 Little Wing
Written-By – Jimi Hendrix
5:23
D2 It's Too Late
Written-By – Chuck Willis
3:45
D3 Layla
Written-By – Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon
7:10
D4 Thorn Tree In The Garden
Written-By – Bobby Whitlock
2:51
Guitar, Lead Vocals – Eric Clapton
Guitar – Duane Allman
Organ, Piano, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Bobby Whitlock
Bass, Percussion – Carl Radle
Drums, Percussion, Piano – Jim Gordon
Engineer – Chuck Kirkpatrick, Howie Albert*, Carl Richardson*, Mac Emmerman, Ron Albert
Producer, Arranged By – Dominos, The
Executive Producer – Tom Dowd
Artwork By [Front Cover] – Frandsen De Schonberg
Recorded at Atlantic South-Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida
VINYL TRANSFER PROCESS :
Vinyl cleaning:
ClearAudio Matrix Record Cleaner
(static discharge with Zerostat 3 Milty "gun" before play)
Source:
TurnTable * > Nottingham Analogue Studio - Hyperspace
ToneArm * > Ace Space 10" / UniPivot (Nottingham Analogue Studio)
Cartridge > DECCA Super Gold Moving Magnet
* (with the final 2010 Tom Fletcher mods)
Electronics:
Phono > Bedini Q Series PreAmp
ADC > Edirol FA-66 Firewire Audio Interface
Computer / Software / Monitoring:
MacPro 8-Core
Software > Adobe Audition CS 5.5, SoundTrack Pro 3, iZotope RXII Advanced
Monitoring > Sennheiser HD800 HPhones (via Violectric VT200 HPhone Amp)
All connections:
Vooodooo pure silver wire with Eichmann bullet plugs.
Recorded at 32bit float 192kHz from a mint 180g Audiophile Vinyl LPs.
Processing :
Slightly de-clicked and resampled in iZotope RXII Advanced from 32-192 to 24-96
& converted with XLD for Mac from AIF to FLAC.
TheZeitung (July 2011)
E N J O Y !
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