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Music Reviews of Layla
Music Review: Classic Albums of 1970: No. 1
Rating: 5 Stars
It's been thirty-five years, and Clapton has yet to put out a better album than this 1970 release. After touring with Delaney and Bonnie, Clapton went into the studio with band members Bobby Whitlock (keyboards, guitar), Jim Gordon (drums), Carl Radle (bass), and guest artist Duane Allman (guitars). In less than ten days they recorded one of the classic albums of all time.
Whether they are putting their own stamp on blues standards like "Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out" and "Key to the Highway," or performing originals like "I Looked Away," "Keep On Growing," "Anyday, "Tell the Truth" and "Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad?" (all written by Clapton-Whitlock), these songs are filled with passion, soul and fire. And then, of course, there's the title track, the seven-minute "Layla." [Note: "Layla" did not become a Top 10 hit until eighteen months later when it was included on the compilation album HISTORY OF ERIC CLAPTON. That album also includes an earlier Phil Spector-produced version of "Tell the Truth" that was released as a single, but re-recorded during the LAYLA sessions.]
While these sessions occured during what had to be an emotional low in Clapton's personal life, he channeled those emotions into the most powerful album of his career. There's a huge gap in your CD library if you don't own a copy of this album ESSENTIAL
Music Review: The finest blues-rock album of all time?
Rating: 5 Stars
Whatever the genre, great music always seems to come from powerful emotions. When he recorded this album, Eric Clapton was going through a real emotional wringer and this comes over so clearly here.You can hear pain and frustration in his voice. This is a real case of an artist opening his soul and it makes for great music.
One quite remarkable thing is that, although the songs here were not all written by the band for the album, they all sound as though they were. Everything fits and the sum total is a set of songs that sound as if they belong together without there being any feeling of repetition. That is truely remarkable for over seventy minutes of music.
For me, the musical peak has to be "Layla" but "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" are also great performances.
This album was a band effort and all members are pulling their weight but that seems to have brought the best out of Clapton. Throughout his career, he has always been at his best when he has been a member rather than a leader. Too many of his pure solo works just seem to be a case of banging out another album without putting much into it.
Here you get Clapton's finest work and what just might be the best blues-rock album of all time. It's an essential part of any rock music collection.
Music Review: arguably one of the best albums ever
Rating: 5 Stars
So many have written superb reviews of this album its music the underlying themes and causes that brought this music to fruition. I was 16 when this album hit the music stores just starting the first of many Rock bands I would be a part of over the years. The other guitar player and I would sit in AWE as we listened to the interaction betwen Clapton and Allman as they spun higher and higher into an atmosphere most guitar players can only dream of and few ever attain!! There are so many reasons to have this album in your collection I won't list them all, but if you ever dreamed of playing guitar, play guitar, or you are thinking about starting this would be the place to start to be able to emulate the emotions that these two superb guitar players evoke with ever soaring notes and riffs each pushing the other to heights the other would very seldom ever acheive again is enough to make this album a part of any collection!!!! If some of these songs don't bring tears to your eyes with emotion then you must already be dead!!!! ONE OF THE BEST!!! I actually bought 4 copies of this on vinyl I wore the first three out!!! This album along with Dark Side of the Moon, Eat a Peach, Led Zep II, Fragile, All Things Must Pass,In the Court of the Crimson KIng and Bitches Brew are never far from the click wheel of my IpodMusic Review: As Good as Cream - Sometimes Even Better
Rating: 5 Stars
Eric Clapton goes toe-to-toe with Duane Allman. Need I say more? By far this is EC's best post-Cream album. Never mind the title track, which everyone on the planet knows. You won't find a better version of "Key to the Highway" anywhere. EC's version of "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" rates with the version done by Freddie King. These two tunes are as good as Cream's cover of "Sitting on Top of the World" from "Wheels of Fire." The other blues covers ("It's Too Late" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out") are stellar. The cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" is so unlike the original you wouldn't know it was a Hendrix song. Anyone who has the guts to cover Hendrix and do it well deserves high praise. Sure, there's quite a few covers here, but there are some top-drawer originals as well. "Bell Bottom Blues"? There is not a better Clapton original anywhere (with the possible exception of "Badge"). The hidden gem on this CD is "Anyday." "Tell the Truth" is a very good mid-tempo jam with Duane Allman playing slide as if his life depended on it. Then there's the aforementioned title track, which legendary producer Tom Dowd once described as "the national anthem." It doesn't get any better than this. Put this CD on the shelf right next to your Cream collection.Music Review: Lost love
Rating: 5 Stars
I absolutely love this album, as I do much of the best music of the 1970s. What sets it apart from a lot of popular music is its legitimacy, authenticity, and honesty. Clapton was legitimately strung out- on love, chemicals, and the pressures of success. Instead of burying these emotions to pander to the lowest common denominator, ol' Eric actually took a risk. He sloshed his messy emotions all over the canvas. And for that he lifted himself above the business, and the hype, and all that useless runaround that tends to lead to so much generic drivel in music, to create what I would now think of as the classic "get over a loss" album.
We've all been there by the time we reach adulthood (whenever that is). We've all fallen for someone and just wanted it to work so badly, but realized at some point that it just ain't happenin'. We've all wanted that job or career that we just didn't get. Something goes wrong for everyone, and that's where this album becomes so powerful. It takes all that loss and pain, and packages it in a format where we can confront it, deal with it, and move on.
To call this album "cathartic" is to put it mildly. Every instant of every song comes from the soul. If you can stand the fire, the kitchen's open.