DEREK & THE DOMINOS Layla TOPCOPY MFSL 2-470 2LP MOFI DUANE ALLMAN ERIC CLAPTON

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Vinyl: MINT!  TOP COPY!  ARCHIVAL!  Appears to have never been played!  Mo-Fi Labels are Clean and Bright.  This is the audiophile acclaimed 2017 Mobile Fidelity Lab Half Speed Mastered Pressing from the Original Master Recordings of the Legendary 1970 Release!  MFSL 2-470.  NUMBERED EDITION!  This one is Number 5213 (see photo of back cover for numbered stamp). 

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, Mobile Fidelity's 180g 2LP set exposes the brilliance of Tom Dowd's original production and the scope of the virtuoso musicians' playing. You've never been closer to the aching vocals, stinging leads, tormented emotions, or wowing intensity that grace every track. Clapton's tones emerge with unprecedented soulfulness. Afforded their own space in the mix, Allman's slide-guitar passages crackle with urgency. All-important sonic components such as soundstaging, imaging, separation and dynamics transport you to the actual event. Mobile Fidelity's analog version testifies on behalf of why fans deemed Clapton god.
Eric Clapton's famous and infamous and barely veiled ode to George Harrison's wife, Patty...OOh-La-La...It has the chops to match the hype:  Bell Bottom Blues is worth the price of admission alone, but you also have a defining cover of Little Wing, a great Tell The Truth and of course, there's Layla...crowned the 27th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone. What to say about the outro – arguably the most famous, passionately penetrating, visceral, double-edged guitar solo in history. Clapton's strings weeping with longing, hope, regret, unrequited love. It deserves the best-possible sonic platform, and receives it here, on a pressing that brings Slowhand's every finger moment into great relief. Get inside Clapton's head, burrow into the conflicted emotions fluttering in his heart as he pines for another man's wife, and in the process, produces an album that forever lives in the souls of anyone who's ever loved and lost. 

Dream team consisting of Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Carl Radle, Klaus Voormann and a host of others.   This is their one and only Studio recording...A batch of fire-pot blues, poignant gospel, and searing rock!  

One of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!!! Classic Rock defined! ...all music gives it 4 stars!!!
See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  Matrices, etched, on all sides.  Complete dead wax information cheerfully provided upon request.

Cover: MINT!  TOP COPY! (see photos) Gatefold.  Includes the Mobile Fidelity Custom booksleeves with cool info on Mo-Fi and a photo list of other Mo-Fi titles available.  Nice high gloss on cover.  Front, gatefold and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright.  Seams, corners and spine are solid and clean.  No splits.  No writing.  No stickers.  Spine print is crystal clear.  
Goldmine Standards. 

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Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Review

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Wishing to escape the superstar expectations that sank Blind Faith before it was launched, Eric Clapton retreated with several sidemen from Delaney & Bonnie to record the material that would form Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. From these meager beginnings grew his greatest album. Duane Allman joined the band shortly after recording began, and his spectacular slide guitar pushed Clapton to new heights. Then again, Clapton may have gotten there without him, considering the emotional turmoil he was in during the recording. He was in hopeless, unrequited love with Pattie Boyd, the wife of his best friend, George Harrison, and that pain surges throughout Layla, especially on its epic title track. But what really makes Layla such a powerful record is that Clapton, ignoring the traditions that occasionally painted him into a corner, simply tears through these songs with burning, intense emotion. He makes standards like "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and "Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)" into his own, while his collaborations with Bobby Whitlock -- including "Any Day" and "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?" -- teem with passion. And, considering what a personal album Layla is, it's somewhat ironic that the lovely coda "Thorn Tree in the Garden" is a solo performance by Whitlock, and that the song sums up the entire album as well as "Layla" itself.