Layla and other assorted love songs

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mix from Mick Guzauski's on the 2004 American SACD for which I for one am grateful as a surround-sound fanatic who's spent 90GBP on the latest reissue), a two vinyl LP version of the Layla album on reproduction Polydor labels, a 48-page hardback book, cover art work print (suitable for framing), a badge (mine only has the Eric is Derek one), a couple of reproduction tickets and album art work sticker all housed in a box with a magnetic lid containing a 3D card insert of the artwork. In 2003, television network VH1 named Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs the 89th-greatest album of all time.

Clapton and Whitlock co-wrote "I Looked Away", "Keep on Growing", " Anyday", " Bell Bottom Blues", " Tell the Truth" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad? Passionate, powerful and at times incredibly moving, LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS may still touch a raw nerve with Eric Clapton - the album's lack of success deeply disappointed him, and his involvement in this reissue has apparently been minimal - but it just goes to show that screaming guitars, soul-baring vocals and a little heartache are just the ticket when it comes to producing some incredible rock music.Also included were out-takes of some of the songs, and the previously unreleased tracks " Mean Old World", " It Hurts Me Too", and "Tender Love". I have to add that the unreleased surround mix, especially the DTS, is excellent, with plenty of instrumentation going on in the rear speakers including some bits that I don't remember from but which were probably just virtually inaudible in the stereo mix. In Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Christgau dubbed it "Clapton's most carefully conceived recording", while admiring the album's "relaxed shuffle and simple rock and roll" and Clapton's "generally warm" singing. Derek and the Dominos grew out of Eric Clapton's frustration with the hype associated with his previous bands, the supergroups Cream and Blind Faith. Meanwhile, latecomer Duane Allman prodded Clapton to tear it up on guitar, so as not to be overwhelmed by his even more talented foil.

Writing in Melody Maker, Roy Hollingworth opined that the songs ranged "from the magnificent to a few lengths of complete boredom", and specified: "We have Hendrix's 'Little Wing' played with such spreading beauty that Jimi would surely have clapped till his hands bled, and then we have 'I Am Yours' … a bossa that novas in pitiful directions.The other two discs of The Layla Sessions include a number of jam sessions, including the historic jam from the night that Clapton and Allman met. From April 1970, the two spent weeks writing a number of songs "just to have something to play", as Whitlock put it. Because this album is more than 77 minutes it did not fit onto early CDs, which had a maximum play time of approximately 74 and a half minutes.