Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs  by Derek And The Dominos

Derek And The Dominos was a short-lived blues rock band that lasted for about two years. The members were Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon, Bobby Whitlock, and Carl Radle, who recorded their one and only album titled Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs in Florida in 1970.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs was a double album that contained fourteen blues rock songs - primarily - of which four were covers and the others were compositions by the four members. Duane Allman (founding member of the Allman Brothers Band) also participated in the recordings, playing slide guitar on most songs. Here one can find Layla, a composition by Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon, which is one of the most legendary rock music pieces. For the production of the album, the group members worked in collaboration with Tom Dowd. The cover is a painting titled "La Fille au Bouquet" by the Frenchman Frandsen-De Schomberg. Clapton, upon seeing it, was reminded of Pattie Boyd with whom he was madly in love and for whom he had written Layla. Thus, without much ado, the painting ended up as the cover of the album.

The album did not achieve great commercial success at the time of its release; one might say it went unnoticed. In the U.S., it reached No.16, while in Britain it didn't even enter the charts. It had to reach 2011 for that to happen (!) In the following years, this double album took on legendary proportions and appears on lists of the most important pop/rock albums of all time.