Derek & the Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs [Numbered Limited Edition 180 gram 2 record set]

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab MFSL 2-470 Original Master Recording GAIN 2™ Ultra Analog LP 180g Series

Tracklist

A1 I Looked Away Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton 3:04 A2 Bell Bottom Blues Written-By – Eric Clapton 5:06 A3 Keep On Growing Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton 6:22 A4 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out Written-By – Jimmie Cox
4:57 B1 I Am Yours Written-By – Eric Clapton, Nizami Ganjavi* 3:32 B2 Anyday Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton 6:37 B3 Key To The Highway Written-By – Willie Broonzy*, Charles Segar
9:47 C1 Tell The Truth Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton 6:45 C2 Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? Written-By – Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton 4:50 C3 Have You Ever Loved A Woman Written-By – Billy Myles
6:51 D1 Little Wing Written-By – Jimi Hendrix 5:23 D2 It's Too Late Written-By – Chuck Willis 3:45 D3 Layla Written-By – Eric Clapton, Jim Gordon 7:10 D4 Thorn Tree In The Garden Written-By – Bobby Whitlock 2:51

• Lacquer Cut At – Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Recorded At – Criteria Recording Studios
• Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated – 27035
• Pressed By – Record Technology Incorporated – 27686

• Bass, Percussion – Carl Radle
• Drums, Percussion, Piano – Jim Gordon
• Engineer, Recorded By – Chuck Kirkpatrick, Howie Albert*, Carl Richardson*, Mac Emmerman*, Ron Albert
• Executive-Producer – Tom Dowd
• Guitar – Duane Allman
• Guitar, Lead Vocals – Eric Clapton
• Lacquer Cut By – KW*
• Mastered By – Krieg Wunderlich
• Mastered By [Assisted by] – Rob LoVerde
• Organ, Piano, Vocals, Acoustic Guitar – Bobby Whitlock
• Painting, Cover [Cover Painting, With Thanks To His Son Emile For The Abuse Of His House] –Frandsen-de Schonberg
• Producer, Arranged By – The Dominos*

Notes

Production and Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab • Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl • Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve • Heavy Duty Protective Packaging • Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

• Matrix / Runout (Side 1): MFSL 2-470A2 ?27035.1(3)... KW@MOFI
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2): MFSL 2-470B1 ?27035.2(3)... KW@MOFI
• Matrix / Runout (Side 3): MFSL 2-470C1 MU27035.3 ?2??7??0??3??7??.??3?(3)... KW@MOFI
• Matrix / Runout (Side 4): MFSL 2-470D3 27686.4(3)... KW@MOFI

(from the Elusive Disc web site)
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Derek and The Dominos Layla on Numbered Limited Edition 180g 2LP from Mobile Fidelity! Mastered From original Master Tapes & Pressed at RTI!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 117/500!
The reputation of Derek and the Dominos' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, their lone record, precedes it. Eric Clapton performing in the studio with Duane Allman, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle, and more for the only time. A batch of fire-pot blues, poignant gospel, and searing rock – all birthed from the leader's insatiable lust for his friend George Harrison's wife. Now, experience it all, and one of the most famous guitar solos and codas in history, in unsurpassed sound courtesy of this quintessential Mobile Fidelity reissue.
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 its own space in the mix, Allman's slide guitar passages crackle with urgency. All-important sonic components such as soundstaging, imaging, and dynamics transport you to the actual event. 
Then, of course, there's the title track – 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.
Clapton's pained yearning permeates everything here. Works such as the swampy "Tell the Truth," the pleading "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?," and blues-drenched "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?" attest to his raw-nerve discomfort, guilt, and desire. He leaves teardrops on the microphone stand and blood on the floor, singing and playing as if his life depends on it and if, by some miracle, the music will serve as both a confessional and apology to Harrison. It's all magnified by Clapton achieving a spiritual and sonic oneness with his band, which matches his high-stakes precision with a rolling, tumbling looseness.
Allman adds firepower and achieves a still-unrivaled simpatico bond with Clapton, but each participant soars. Consider: The call-and-response, Sam and Dave-derived vocal exchanges between Whitlock and Clapton. Rich, creamy, Southern-stoked blends of R&B, blues, and soul. Vibrant tapestries in which the pianos, bass, guitars, and voices explode with ravishing fervor, naturalism, and desperation. Indeed, maybe a combo this great was only intended one shot in the studio. Perhaps the paralyzing degree of potency on display here, and the musicianship that remains the standard by which any blues-rock is judged, is meant to be preserved as one standalone record. Whatever the case, this is the analog version to own. 
Features:
• Special Numbered Limited Edition No. 000545 • Double LP • Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab • Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl • Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve • Heavy Duty Protective Packaging • Mastered from the Original Master Tapes • Pressed at RTI