Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

This is the sound of a man setting his own house on fire just to feel the heat. Born from Eric Clapton's agonizing obsession with Pattie Boyd, the album transcends simple blues-rock to become a document of spiritual and emotional exhaustion. The addition of Duane Allman’s slide guitar acts as a second voice, often screaming louder and more articulately than the vocals themselves. It is a thick, humid record, smelling of stale cigarettes and expensive whiskey, recorded in a frantic blur of creative chemistry and chemical excess.

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