From April 1970, the two spent weeks writing a number of songs "just to have something to play", as Whitlock put it.

The LP was re-released on 180g vinyl by Simply Vinyl in the 1990s and re-mastered and re-released on 180g vinyl by Universal Music in 2008. While for those of you who have got to know and love this album well over the years, then this stands as its definitve edition and is highly recommended. cannot be beaten; as other reviewers have suggested, it appears that unrequited love gave Clapton an extra boost that he could only express in his writing and his guitar on this album. Bobby Whitlock revealed in an interview that while they were staying at Emile Frandsen's house in France in August 1970, he took them to his father's studio just after they had made a mess by having an egg fight. The epic, anguished title-track of the debut album of his new band project Derek and the Dominos changed that forever.

Clapton also insisted that the image be used unadorned on the ''Layla'' sleeve, with no text added to give either the band's name or the title of the album. In 1993, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab gave the original 1970 stereo master tapes meticulous treatment for the first time and pressed the album on an expensive, limited edition 24kt gold CD. The DSD source was flat-transferred from analogue master tapes at Sterling Sound in New York City in 2013. As irregular as Clapton's career has been, there are however some albums that made him deserve his legendary status as one of the finest blues rock guitar players ever.

As the jam began, he came running back into the control room, still pulling up his trousers and yelling, "Push up the faders!I thought, even if the rest of the album was rubbish, at least it still contained seven minutes of genius. Christgau wrote in conclusion: "his meaning is realized at those searing peaks when a pained sense of limits – why does love have to be so sad, I got the bell-bottom blues, Lay-la – is posed against the good times in an explosive compression of form. According to Dowd, the recording of "Key to the Highway" was unplanned, triggered by the band hearing Sam Samudio performing the song for his album Hard and Heavy in another room at the studio. It almost makes us forget that it constitutes a rather narrow foundation stone for an increasingly massive edifice. Music's Dave DiMartino also noted Allman's "stinging guitarwork" and described Layla as "Clapton's masterwork, and one of the finest rock 'n' roll albums of the '70s", commenting that "this best-selling double LP established Clapton's post-Cream superstardom.

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 I'd never had but wished I did". You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Bobby Whitlock's version of the story is that the tape was rolling non-stop for the entire session, but that Dowd had taken a lavatory break leaving the faders on the mixer down. This MFSL 20-bit remastering of Layla preserved more of the fidelity of the original recordings than had previously been heard on CD. It suffices to say that Layla itself and the long slow blues tunes like Key to the Highway are my favourites.

citation needed] Improvements, however, were not very significant because the original 1970 stereo master tapes could not be found at the time. one of those rare instances when musicians join together for profit and a lark and come up with a mature and original sound. The first disc has the same tracks as the original LP, remixed in stereo from the 16-track analog source tapes and digitally remastered.

He wrote in conclusion that, "even though this one has the look of a greedy, lazy, slapdash studio session, I think it may be Eric Clapton's most consistent recording . All across the album you can feel why its legendary status is well deserved, and by time "Torn Three In The Garden" closes, you are sure you've witnessed a piece of musical history. As the tour progressed the set changed, with the first half of the show consisting entirely of songs from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs and culminating in "Layla".The Prince of Love … Or How the Recording of 'Layla', Clapton's Ode to Forbidden Love, Made Victims of Derek and the Dominos". In September 2013, Universal Music Japan issued a remastered version of Layla on SHM-CD, edited in DSD at Universal Music Studios, Tokyo. This mastering's negative reception motivated at least one attempt to remaster the CD during the 1980s.