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Track Time
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0.DISC 1:
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1.I Looked Away
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2.Bell Bottom Blues
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3.Keep On Growing
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4.Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
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5.I Am Yours
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6.Anyday
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7.Key To The Highway
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8.Tell The Truth
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9.Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
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10.Have You Ever Loved A Woman
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11.Little Wing
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12.It's Too Late
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13.Layla
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14.Thorn Tree In The Garden
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0.DISC 2:
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1.Mean Old World
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2.Roll It Over
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3.Tell The Truth
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4.It's Too Late
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5.Got To Get Better In A Little While
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6.Matchbox
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7.Blues Power
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8.Snake Lake Blues
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9.Evil
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10.Mean Old Frisco
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11.One More Chance
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12.Got To Get Better In A Little While Jam
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13.Got To Get Better In A Little While
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0.DISC 3:
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1.I Looked Away
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2.Bell Bottom Blues
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3.Keep On Growing
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4.Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
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5.I Am Yours
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6.Anyday
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7.Key To The Highway
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8.Tell The Truth
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9.Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
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10.Have You Ever Loved A Woman
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11.Little Wing
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12.It's Too Late
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13.Layla
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14.Thorn Tree In The Garden
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15.Mean Old World
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0.DISC 4:
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1.Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
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2.Got To Get Better In A Little While
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3.Let It Rain
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4.Presence Of The Lord
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5.Key To The Highway
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6.Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
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0.DISC 5:
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1.Tell The Truth
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2.Bottle Of Red Wine
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3.Roll It Over
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4.Blues Power
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5.Have You Ever Loved A Woman
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6.Little Wing
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7.Crossroads
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0.DISC 6:
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1.I Looked Away
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2.Bell Bottom Blues
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3.Keep On Growing
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4.Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
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5.I Am Yours
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6.Anyday
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7.Key To The Highway
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0.DISC 7:
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1.Tell The Truth
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2.Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad
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3.Have You Ever Loved A Woman
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4.Little Wing
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5.It's Too Late
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6.Layla
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7.Thorn Tree In The Garden
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0.DISC 8:
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8.Got To Get Better In a Little While
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9.Layla
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Editorial Notes
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.
Universal's super-deluxe 40th anniversary reissue of Layla and
Other Assorted Love Songs, the lone studio album from Eric
Clapton's Derek & the Dominos, gathers all the released master
recordings from the short-lived supergroup and adds a handful of
heretofore previously unreleased rarities, packaging it all in a
handsome box containing four CDs (the proper album, a disc of
rarities, the double-disc Fillmore East in Concert), a double-vinyl
edition of the album, a Surround Sound DVD of Layla, a book, and
assorted pieces of memorabilia. Rarities-wise, there's not much
that hasn't been out in some form or another: most of the sessions
from the group's scrapped second album surfaced on Clapton's
Crossroads box, and 1990's three-disc The Layla Sessions contained
a few outtakes and alternates that are here, along with a bunch of
jam sessions that are not, leaving only the smoking performances
from the group's spot on The Johnny Cash Show as a genuine rarity,
and even that has seen release on a Legacy DVD. So there's not much
in the way of unheard material, but even so, this is the best
reissue of Layla yet: it's a dynamite remaster, the second disc
finally gathers all the extant rarities in one place, and the
lavish package is certainly the kind of thing designed for the
libraries of wealthy collectors. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Format: Compact Disc
Released Date: April 26, 2011
Genre: Hard Rock
Style: Rock & Pop
Number of Discs: 6
Label Name: Warner Bros.
UPC: 600753314326
