Derek & The Dominos: Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (Ltd. Deluxe Edition Box) auf 4 CDs und 1 DVD

Das Album gilt als eines der besten Recordings von Eric Clapton und ist eines der verehrtesten Meisterwerke im Rock.
Das Meisterwerk wurde nun neu gemastert und erscheint in mehreren Formaten. Als Standard-CD und LP, als erweiterete Deluxe Edition und Super Deluxe Boxset. Die Deluxe Edition enthält zum Teil bis dato unveröffentlichtes Material und neue Mixe, quasi ein komplett unveröffentlichtes "Zweit"-Album, produziert vom originalen Enigineer Andy Johns. Darunter befinden sich auch 6 neue und ungehörte Aufnahmen, fertiggestellt mit Andy Johns und Bobby Whitlock, und als Highlight die letzte Studioaufnahme "Got To Get Better In A Little While" sowohl als hypnotisierende Jam-Version, als auch als komplette Version.
Die Super Deluxe Edition wartet zudem mit den kompletten "The Johnny Cash Show" Live-Aufnahmen auf sowie einer Audio-DVD inkl. DTS 5.1 und Dolby Surround 5.1 Mixes des LAYLA Albums, gemixed von dem legendären Engineer Elliot Scheiner, ein Buch mit einem neuen Essay von Ashey Kahn und raren Fotos / Bildern, Prints und weiteren Goodies.

Ein absolutes Highlight, nicht nur für Clapton-Anhänger!

Product-Information:

THE 2CD DELUXE EDITION features: Six exciting performances from what was to be Derek and the Dominos’ second album, all remixed by the original session engineer, Andy Johns. The highlight of the six tracks is “Got To Get Better In A Little While” – the group’s last recording – presented in this collection both as a mesmerizing jam version and as the first-ever release of the fully produced studio version, finally completed by founding member Bobby Whitlock on keyboards and vocals.

All four audio performances from Derek and the Domino’s sole, historic television appearance on The Johnny Cash Show, November 9, 1970 – including Clapton’s famous jam on “Matchbox Blues” with Cash and rockabilly legend Carl Perkins.

The two tracks produced by Phil Spector in early summer 1970 that amounted to the first release by Derek and the Dominos: “Tell the Truth” and “Roll It Over,” the A- and B-side of a single that was quickly pulled from circulation by the group.

The Layla session out-take “Mean Old World”: the legendary acoustic duet performed by Eric Clapton and Duane Allman.

The SUPER DELUXE EDITION additionally includes:
Newly remastered and expanded 2-CD set of Derek and the Dominos: In Concert, recorded at the Fillmore East and remastered from the original master tapes. Audio only DVD featuring DTS 5.1 and Dolby Surround 5.1 versions of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, mixed by legendary engineer Elliot Scheiner. High-fidelity, 180-gram reproduction of the original vinyl double album, remastered directly from the original UK album masters, featuring slightly alternate mixes of some songs.

A hardcover book, artfully designed with rare and never-seen photographs, and featuring four meticulously researched essays by noted music historian and author Ashley Kahn fashioned from new interviews with Bobby Whitlock, Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, engineer Andy Johns, producer Albhy Galuten, guitarist Derek Trucks; plus historic interviews with Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, and producer Tom Dowd.

Facsimiles of Derek and the Dominos concert tickets and various promotional items, including the famous “Derek is Eric” button created to assure fans of the identity of the group’s lead singer and guitarist.

Pop-up 3-D artwork and a high quality Layla art print based on the oil painting that graced the original album cover – “La Fille Au Bouquet” by Emile Theodore Frandsen de Schomberg – which has achieved cultural significance in its own right.

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs: The 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition stands as the centerpiece of a series of releases paying tribute to the historic album. Many of the elements within the Deluxe and Super Deluxe Editions will be available separately, and in various formats – including a single-disc edition of the remastered Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs; a 2-LP remastered vinyl edition of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs; a 2-CD edition of Derek and the Dominos: In Concert; and downloadable editions of all configurations on iTunes. A full list of each configuration with respective release numbers follows:
Single-Disc Version / Digital Equivalent
2CD Deluxe / Digital Equivalent
4-CD / DVD / 2-LP Super Deluxe Edition
2-LP Vinyl Reissue
Digital exclusive
iTunes LP
7-inch vinyl single / Digital equivalent “Got To Get Better In A Little While” b / w “Layla”

TRACK LISTINGS OF ALL FORMATS
DISC ONE: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (ALL NEWLY REMASTERED)
I LOOKED AWAY (3: 06)
BELL BOTTOM BLUES (5: 05)
KEEP ON GROWING (6: 23)
NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT (4: 58)
I AM YOURS (3: 35)
ANYDAY (6: 36)
KEY TO THE HIGHWAY (9: 38)
TELL THE TRUTH (6: 40)
WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD? (4: 43)
HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN (6: 54)
LITTLE WING (5: 33)
IT’S TOO LATE (3: 51)
LAYLA (7: 05)
THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN (2: 51)

DISC TWO: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (bonus CD)
MEAN OLD WORLD (3: 52) Layla session out-take
ROLL IT OVER (4.31) Phil Spector produced single b-side
TELL THE TRUTH (3.23) Phil Spector produced single a-side
IT’S TOO LATE (4.11) Live on The Johnny Cash Show, 5 November, 1970 * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
GOT TO GET BETTER IN A LITTLE WHILE (6.34) Live on The Johnny Cash Show, 5 November, 1970 * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
MATCHBOX (with Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins) (3: 56) Live on The Johnny Cash Show, 5 November, 1970 * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
BLUES POWER (6.31) Live on The Johnny Cash Show, 5 November, 1970 ** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
SNAKE LAKE BLUES (3.34) From April / May 1971 sessions for the Dominos second album ** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED NEW MIX
EVIL (4.34) From April / May 1971 sessions for the Dominos second album ** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED NEW MIX
MEAN OLD FRISCO (4.04) From April / May 1971 sessions for the Dominos second album ** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED NEW MIX ONE MORE CHANCE (3.15) From April / May 1971 sessions for the Dominos second album ** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED NEW MIX
GOT TO GET BETTER IN A LITTLE WHILE JAM (3.45) From April / May 1971 sessions for the Dominos second album * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED
GOT TO GET BETTER IN A LITTLE WHILE (6: 05) From April / May 1971 sessions for the Dominos second album ** PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED NEW MIX WITH NEW VOCALS AND HAMMOND BY BOBBY WHITLOCK
* previously unreleased recording ** newly remixed recording

DISC THREE (audio only DVD): Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
5.1 SURROUND SOUND DVD (DTS 5.1 and DOLBY SURROUND 5.1) by Elliot Scheiner (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED 5.1 MIXES)
1. I LOOKED AWAY (3: 06)
2. BELL BOTTOM BLUES (5: 05)
3. KEEP ON GROWING (6: 23)
4. NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT (4: 58)
5. I AM YOURS (3: 35)
6. ANYDAY (6: 36)
7. KEY TO THE HIGHWAY (9: 38)
8. TELL THE TRUTH (6: 40)
9. WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD? (4: 43)
10. HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN (6: 54)
11. LITTLE WING (5: 33)
12. IT’S TOO LATE (3: 51)
13. LAYLA (7: 05)
14. THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN (2: 51)
bonus track:
15. MEAN OLD WORLD (3.50)

DISC FOUR: IN CONCERT (CD 1) – ALL NEWLY REMASTERED
1. WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD? (9: 30)
2. GOT TO GET BETTER IN A LITTLE WHILE (13: 50)
3. LET IT RAIN (17.47)
4. PRESENCE OF THE LORD (6: 10)
bonus material:
5. KEY TO THE HIGHWAY (6: 26)
6. NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT (5: 51)

DISC FIVE: IN CONCERT (CD 2) – ALL NEWLY REMASTERED
1. TELL THE TRUTH (11: 21)
2. BOTTLE OF RED WINE (5: 35)
3. ROLL IT OVER (6: 44)
4. BLUES POWER (10: 30)
5. HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN (8: 14)
bonus material:
6. LITTLE WING (6: 11)
7. CROSSROADS (8: 17)

2-LP SET (ALL NEWLY REMASTERED FROM ORIGINAL ANALOGUE 1970 U. K. MASTERS)

SIDE 1
I LOOKED AWAY (3: 06)
BELL BOTTOM BLUES (5: 05)
KEEP ON GROWING (6: 23)
NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT (4: 58)

SIDE 2
I AM YOURS (3: 35)
ANYDAY (6: 36)
KEY TO THE HIGHWAY (9: 38)

SIDE 3
TELL THE TRUTH (6: 40)
WHY DOES LOVE GOT TO BE SO SAD? (4: 43)
HAVE YOU EVER LOVED A WOMAN (6: 54)

SIDE 4
LITTLE WING (5: 33)
IT’S TOO LATE (3.51)
LAYLA (7: 05)
THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN (2.51)

(ericclaptonmusicnews. com)