Derek and The Dominos

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Derek and the Dominos was a music group formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton along with Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon, who had all played with him in Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers Band joined the group early in the recording of their first album. They were a blues-rock band that demonstrated virtuosity at its finest, showing some of Eric “Slowhand” Clapton’s finest work.

The group debuted at the Lyceum Theatre in London on June 14, 1970 where the announcer mispronounced their provisional name of Eric and the Dynamos to Derek and the Dominos, the band decided to take up the new name and undertook a summer tour of England. From late August to early October, working at Criteria Studios in Miami with legendary Atlantic Records producer Tom Dowd, the band recorded Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, a brilliant double album now widely regarded as Clapton’s masterpiece. Most of the material, including Layla (which soon became an FM radio staple) was inspired by Clapton’s unrequited love for Pattie Boyd who was married to his best friend George Harrison. Clapton was seeing Pattie secretly at the time and Whitlock was dating her sister. It was not until much later that the affair was open; Boyd moved in with Clapton in 1974 and married him in 1979.

1	Layla full track	2,338
2	Bell Bottom Blues full track	810
3	Have You Ever Loved a Woman full track	437
4	I Looked Away full track	417
5	Key to the Highway full track	416
6	Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out full track	415
7	Little Wing full track	368
8	Keep on Growing full track	358
9	Tell the Truth full track	346
10	I Am Yours full track	299
11	Thorn Tree in the Garden full track	282
12	Anyday full track	281
13	It's Too Late full track	252
14	Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad full track	165
15	Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?	111

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robirr wrote:
21 days ago

Clapton + Allman = heaven

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Matttdnl wrote:
last month

They are so great here http://groove-bay.com/Search/?wh=/music/Derek+and+The+Dominos

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brentondig wrote:
last month

Awesome album!

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ssegovia1 wrote:
last month

Guys, you sound great, I enjoy listening to you

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Robdir wrote:
last month

Why oh why only one album?? Seriously, i have an unhealthy obessesion with Layla and Those Assorted Love Songs! (Clapton and Allman on one record sounded better than you could imagine!)

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Lo-fiBoy wrote:
last month

Happy to know them, Dereck and the Dominos, It's pleasure at blues' rhythm and neurotic acid... Don't stop the mu

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GilmoursAngst wrote:
last month

@bryantee, to you maybe. I just think Bell Bottom Blues is amazing. It's one of my top songs, sorry you don't agree.

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JusticeShades wrote:
last month

The assorted love songs are great, but nothing tops Layla.

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bthoma1 wrote:
last month

why does love got to be so sad with Duanes lead work is unreal..and underappreciated

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javafreak wrote:
last month

i've got that album 'the cream of clapton'. it's brilliant!

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bryantee wrote:
last month

"Of all time" is a larger sample size than an album, thus the album is included in that assertion. BBB is alright but doesn't hold a candle to Little Wing, Anyday, Key To The Highway or Have you Ever Loved a Woman.

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GilmoursAngst wrote:
June 2008

I already have, thanks. And I didn't say it was the greatest on the album, I said one of the greatest. I know about Layla, jeez. >_>

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bryantee wrote:
June 2008

Bell Bottom Blues? Pff. Try listening to this album again.

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criticism- wrote:
June 2008

Great Band!!!!!

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GilmoursAngst wrote:
June 2008

I've come to the conclusion that Bell Bottom Blues is one of the greatest songs of all time.

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marcgraff wrote:
June 2008

Pozdrowienia!

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due_friday wrote:
May 2008

I have to agree, his solo stuff isnt the most exciting, but his past sure gives me enough awe for his talent, that I cannot deny his exquisite guitar playing!

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[deleted-user] wrote:
May 2008

I Got The Key... <3
IanZG wrote:
May 2008

Their cover of Little Wing is scorching!!! I second this:)

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elchingolense wrote:
April 2008

Gods

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