Lbysongs5. 1Important instructions for playing these surround music files If you have a 7. Amazon. com Samsung HWK950ZA 5. Channel Soundbar with Dolby Atmos Technology 2016 Model Electronics. J9LGA/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Dolby Songs 5.1' title='Dolby Songs 5.1' />Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is the only studio album by Anglo American blues rock band Derek and the Dominos. WALTER TROUT And The Radicals LIVE CONCERT. Dvix dolby digital 5. Released in November 1. Layla, and is often regarded as Eric Claptons greatest musical achievement. The other band members were Bobby Whitlock on keyboards and vocals, Jim Gordon on drums, Carl Radle on bass, and special guest performer Duane Allman on lead and slide guitar on 1. In the United States, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs peaked at number 1. Billboard Top LPs chart. It returned to the US albums chart again in 1. Platinum by the RIAA. Having failed to chart in Britain originally, it finally debuted on the UK Albums Chart in 2. In 2. 00. 0, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2. 00. 3, television network VH1 named Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs the 8. Rolling Stone ranked it number 1. The 5. 00 Greatest Albums of All Time. Critic Robert Christgau ranked Layla the third greatest album of the 1. In 2. 01. 2, the Super Deluxe Edition of the record won a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album. BackgroundeditDerek and the Dominos, the collaborative band that created Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, grew out of Eric Claptons frustration with the hype associated with his previous bands, the supergroups. Cream and Blind Faith. Following the latters dissolution, he joined Delaney Bonnie and Friends, whom he had come to know while they were the opening act on Blind Faiths US tour in the summer of 1. After that band also split up, a Friends alumnus, Bobby Whitlock, joined up with Clapton in Surrey, England. From April 1. 97. Whitlock put it. These songs would later make up the bulk of the material on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Having toured with Joe Cocker straight after leaving Delaney Bonnie, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon reunited with Clapton and Whitlock in England. Clapton attempted to avoid the limelight under cover of the anonymous Derek and the Dominos, with whom he played a tour of small clubs in Britain during the first three weeks of August. The groups name had reportedly resulted from a gaffe made by the announcer at their first concert, who mispronounced the bands provisional name, Eric The Dynamos. In fact, Clapton chose Derek and the Dominos because he did not want his name and celebrity to get in the way of maintaining a band image. When the tour was over, they headed for Criteria Studios in Miami to record an album. The source of the albums eventual centrepiece, Layla, was rooted in Claptons personal life he had become infatuated with Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend George Harrison,3 who had joined Clapton as a guitarist on Delaney Bonnies European tour in December 1. Not even heroin, which Clapton had then begun to use, could dull the pain. Dave Marsh, in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, wrote that there are few moments in the repertoire of recorded rock where a singer or writer has reached so deeply into himself that the effect of hearing them is akin to witnessing a murder, or a suicide to me, Layla is the greatest of them. Duane Allmans arrivaleditA serendipitous event brought Clapton and guitarist Duane Allman together shortly after the Dominos had begun recording at Criteria Studios in August 1. Veteran producer Tom Dowd was working on the Allman Brothers second album, Idlewild South, when the studio received a phone call that Clapton was bringing the Dominos to Miami to record. Upon hearing this, Allman indicated that he would love to drop by and watch, if Clapton approved. Allman later called Dowd to let him know that his band was in town to perform a benefit concert on 2. August. When Clapton learned of this from Dowd he insisted on going to see their show, saying, You mean that guy who plays on the back of Wilson Picketts Hey Jude I want to see him play lets go. Clapton and company managed to sit in front of the barricade separating the audience from the stage. When they sat down, Allman was playing a solo. As he turned around and opened his eyes and saw Clapton, he froze. Dickey Betts, the Allmans other lead guitarist, took up where Allman left off, but when he followed Allmans eyes to Clapton, he had to turn his back to keep from freezing, himself. After the show, Allman asked if he could come by the studio to watch some recording sessions, but Clapton invited him there directly, saying Bring your guitar you got to play Overnight, the two bonded Dowd reported that they were trading licks, they were swapping guitars, they were talking shop and information and having a ball no holds barred, just admiration for each others technique and facility. Clapton wrote later in his autobiography that he and Allman were inseparable during the sessions in Florida he talked about Allman as the musical brother Id never had but wished I did. RecordingeditThe majority of the songs on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs were products of Clapton and Whitlocks writing co operation. In addition to nine originals, five covers were included. The guitar amplifier Clapton used is a matter of legend allegedly, he used a diminutive 5 watt tweed Fender Champ. Original songseditClapton and Whitlock co wrote six songs that appear on the album I Looked Away, Keep on Growing, Anyday, Bell Bottom Blues, Tell the Truth and Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad. Whitlock also contributed Thorn Tree in the Garden. Clapton brought I Am Yours from a poem by Nizami, and Layla with a coda credited to Jim Gordon. Tell the Truth had been initially recorded in June 1. Harrisons producer, Phil Spector. It was issued as a single, with Roll It Over on the B side. However, as Whitlock recalls, Spectors Wall of Sound production did not fit the bands style, and they had the single withdrawn. On 2. 8 August,1. Allman, recorded Tell the Truth as a long and slow instrumental jam. The version released on Layla combines the original lyrics with the jams slower pace. Both vocal versions were later included on the 1. The History of Eric Clapton. The last track on the album, Thorn Tree in the Garden, was the perfect stereo recording, according to Dowd. Whitlock, Clapton, Allman, Radle and Gordon sat in a circle in the studio, with the microphone placed in the centre as they played live. The covered songs consisted of the blues standards Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out Jimmy Cox, Key to the Highway Charles Segar, Willie Broonzy, and Have You Ever Loved a Woman Billy Myles Jimi Hendrixs Little Wing and an up tempo version of Chuck Williss doo wop ballad Its Too Late. According to Dowd, the recording of Key to the Highway was unplanned. How To Install Prova Shower System. The band heard Sam Samudio in another room at the studio doing the song for his album Hard and Heavy. They liked it and spontaneously started playing it. Dowd told the engineers to start running the tape, which is why the Dominos version begins with a fade in. ArtworkeditThe albums front cover is a reproduction of a painting by Emile Thodore Frandsen de Schomberg, titled La Fille au Bouquet. Clapton first saw the painting at the house of Giorgio Gomelsky in the South of France, when the Dominos stayed there briefly in August 1.