Artist: Derek and The Dominos: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Rock: Blues Discography: Layla Sessions Year: 1970 Tracks: 14 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Year: 1970 Tracks: 14 Live at the Fillmore (CD2) Year: Tracks: 7 Live at the Fillmore (CD1) Year: Tracks: 6 Derek & the Dominos was a mathematical group formed by guitarist/singer Eric Clapton (born Eric Patrick Clapp, March 30, 1945, Ripley, Surrey, England) with former previous members of Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, in the fountain of 1970. The remain of the lineup was Bobby Whitlock (b. 1948, Memphis, TN) (keyboards, vocals), Carl Radle (b. 1942, Oklahoma City, OK -- d. May 30, 1980) (bass), and Jim Gordon (b. 1945, Los Angeles) (drums). The mathematical chemical group debuted at the Lyceum Ballroom in London on June 14 and undertook a summer term of enlistment of England. From late August to quondam October, they recorded the celebrated forked album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Nov 1970) with guitarist Duane Allman sitting in. They then returned to touring in England and the U.S., playing their last day of the month on December 6. The Layla record album was successful in the U.S., where "Bell Bottom Blues" and the title song charted as singles in abbreviated versions, simply it did not chart in the U.K. The Dominos reconvened to record a second base record album in May 1971, simply split up without completing it. Clapton then retired from the music business, nursing a heroin dependance. In his absence, and in the wake of Allman's death in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971, the Dominos and Layla gained in height. Re-released as a single at its full, seven-minute length in connexion with the compilation album History of Eric Clapton (Atco 803) (Marchland 1972), "Layla" hit the Top Ten in the U.S. and the U.K. in the summer of 1972. (It would come back to the U.K. Top Ten in 1982.) A live album, Derek and the Dominos in Concert (Jan 1973), interpreted from the 1970 U.S. circuit, was too a strong marketer. Time has only added to the celebrity of the group, which is now rated among Eric Clapton's to the highest degree outstanding achievements. The 1988 Eric Clapton boxwood localise retrospective Crossroads featured material from the stillborn moment album roger Sessions. The Layla Sessions was a 1990 boxwood localise expanding that record album crosswise trey CDs/cassettes. Live at the Fillmore (1994) offered an expanded version of the In Concert album. |