They named the group Derek and the Dominos only to really make one album together, this was at a time Eric Clapton got the great slide guitarist and member of the Allman Brothers the great Duane Allman to help him on this album. This is at a time when Eric Clapton was really longing to be with George Harrison's wife Patty and wrote this song Layla as a message to her.
Eric Clapton is an English rock & blues guitarist, singer & songwriter. He is considered one of the best guitarists in the world & has had a great career in music. He was with many great groups before going solo. The Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominos. He has had a lot of solo hits such as "I Shot The Sheriff", "Change The World", "My Father's Eyes", "Wonderful Tonight", "Cocaine", "Lay Down Sally" etc. Eric Clapton has done 2 versions of "Layla" over the years. One faster rock version & a slowed down version. Both are great!
This song has one hell of a backstory. The song was written for Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's (The Beatles) first wife, while George was still married to her. He was obsessed with her.
Pattie Boyd got several song written for her GH wrote I Need You, If i Needed Someone, For You Blue and Something while EC besides this one wrote Bell Bottom Blues and Wonderful Tonight.
Actually written by Rita Coolidge but she never received credit for it. This is an iconic song Known in some circles as the best rock song ever written
Derek and the Dominos was Eric's group that recorded this. The group backed a bunch of other artists of the era like Delaney and Bonnie, as well a George Harrison on his legendary "All Things Must Pass" album. They didn't have a names, but they just played together for other artists. When he brought them on board for his first solo album, he named them "Derek and the Dominos". It consisted of Jim Gordon on drums, Bobby Whitlock on keys and Carl Raddle on bass. On the day they recorded this song, the Allman Brothers were also in the studio, and Eric invited Duane to sit in on the session and lay down some slide guitar.
There is a slowed down version that I have on my playlist. It's called Layla (Unplugged Edition) and is found on his Complete Clapton album. I'm sure it can be found on other albums also. So beautiful.
Derek & The Dominos is still fronted by Eric Clapton, so this song is played and sung by Clapton himself and is not a cover. Thing is, he wrote a whole album about how he was in love with the wife of his friend George Harrison (guitarist of the Beatles), and he kind of didn't want to release it under his own name, plus he got guitar legend Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers to join the band as a side project, so it wasn't really Clapton's usual band or a traditional Clapton record. The whole album is awesome.
Looking forward to your Eric Clapton journey. Solo, Derek & the Dominoes, Cream, Yard Birds, Blind Faith, Bluesbreakers, etc. omg you're in for a treat!
The guitarists are Eric Clapton, and Duane Allman, two of the best ever! Clapton wrote the song and Duane Allman created the main riff and the screaming slide guitar is his.
Eric was in so many bands and a solo performer but you have to hear the very underrated Bell Bottom Blues by him and Derek and the Dominos!!! Please Please listen and do it live!! You have so mucg to discover ftom this man, he's a super legend!!
Love this song. You forget, we know the song, so we know what's coming. I love the end with the piano and guitar. Let the music take you on your own journey. Go where it goes.
Clapton was in Derek and the Dominoes🤓 I for one agree you should listen to this fantastic studio version first before going to the live versions, or to the vastly reworked slower one he did which is also quite popular but not for me. TH-cam has some live versions I believe from the 90s of this original faster version that are just insanely great. The outro to this song is just transcendent
By the time of this song's release (1970), modern rock had matured and could be AMAZING. This has always been a top ranked rock song for me. It's classic, hall of fame material from the very start. Offhand, I can't think of any hit song like it, especially not love songs, which are usually sweet and tender.
I highly recommend Clapton's collaborate album with B. B. King, "Riding with the King". My favorite from that album is a cover of Sam & Dave's, "Hold On, I'm Coming". Each song is classic blues made by classic masters of the genre.
He's the only 3 time RnR Hall of Fame inductee, The Yardbirds, Cream and solo. His peers believe him to be among the best. He's high on my list!! 80's Clapton, when he covered a lot of artists and made it his own, especially J J Cale is very good. "Layla" was written about George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. They later married/divorced. George and Eric remained friends. Clapton plays the guitar solo in the Beatles "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by Harrison. Clapton wrote "Wonderful Tonight" for Boyd too and a few others. Enjoy this journey, geez you can go so many directions!! ❤🥳
Derek and the Dominos was a superb rhythm section fronted by Eric. In the recording studio, they happened on Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers and Duane sat in on severl of the songs on the album 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' which is one of greatest blues-rock albums ever made. Duane provided both lead and slide guitar tracks in addition to Eric's own stellar guitar work.
The rhythm section of Carl Radle and Jim Gordon were great, but I think it’s the keyboard work and vocals of Bobby Whitlock that set this album apart from other, post-Blind Faith , Clapton projects. Of course, the addition of Duane Allman didn’t hurt.
Layla is one of the most magnificent songs of all time. His guitar-playing really comes alive here. One of my all-time favorites. I can listen to it over and over and never get tired of it. By the way, he was also in the band Cream. Check out Sunshine of Your Love when you have a chance!
It's not really two songs, just the progression of the relationship. He got the girl (they eventually married), and it was all sunshine and flowers for a little while, and then it wasn't. They both have talked about it in interviews over the years. Sad story but incredible song (name was inspired by a Persian love story.) Keep going with his playlist - it's incredibly long and fabulous!
The original version, yes, that Eric sang was also great! It was slower and very popular. In fact it was SO GOOD that he/friends? thought that he could amp it up and see what happened. This is it!
This version, by Derek and the Dominos, with Eric on guitar and singing, is the original song. He did an unplugged version, years later, that was a fairly big hit at the time.
Years later, he did an unplugged version, which runs at a much slower timing, with a very bluesy sound (and a hit of Spanish). I find that version as my favorite take on the song.
Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight is a great ballad. Also, Tears in Heaven about the death of his 5 year old son who fell out of a New York high rise building. I Shot The Sheriff another older great song. It’s In The Way That You Use It from The Color of Money soundtrack is another great mid 80’s song by him.
Eric Clapton did a wonderful performance on MTV Unplugged which produced one of his best albums. It includes the heartbreaking hit "Tears in Heaven" dedicated to his young son who fell 16 stories to his death in a hotel room.
The piano part was written by Jim Gordon, a classically trained pianist, for a song for Rita Coolidge his girlfriend at the time although she says she wrote it
Derek and the Dominoes only did one album. Eric wanted to get away from the fame that surrounded him at the time and release an album under a different name. Didn't really work as it soon became known that 'Derek was Eric'. Layla has become Clapton's signature song. The outro was added some time after the first part and apparently wasn't liked by Eric at first. The drummer - Jim Gordon had been working on a song with his girlfriend Rita Coolidge called Time. He took the piano part and added to the end of Layla. If you listen to Time it is pretty identical to the Layla outro. Rita claims she wrote the tune and was never credited with it. Layla went on to be one of the most famous songs ever. (As a side note Jim Gordon later murdered his mother and has been in a mental hospital ever since).
Slow hand. He was in Cream and Yardbirds with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck (idk if you know who they are, but if not you *need* to find out) and so many other bands. What a riff, what a tune, an absolute classic.
He also does an acoustic version which is really nice. What I like about your videos is that we know what's going to happen and I always smile at your reaction.
I recommend reading about Patti Boyd, she was the muse for a slew of classic Rock songs. Harrison met her when she played a schoolgirl in the Beatle's "A Hards Day Night" She reminded him of Brigitte Bardot, and he took her home with him that night. Patti's sister Jenny was also in the movie. Jenny met Mick Fleetwood at School when she was 15, years later they married and had two daughters, the marriage ended when she found out that Mick had slept with Stevie Nicks after she broke up with Buckingham. Stevie Nicks joined her first band while at Arcadia High, I also went to Arcadia, My older brother went to school there with Michael Anthony of Van Halen although he had a different last name then. The Van Halen brothers were raised next door in Pasadena
From what I have read, this song was written for George Harrison’s wife Pattie; whom Eric had fallen in love with. In the end she left her Beatle, George and took off with Eric.
Glad that you started Eric Clapton. His live versions are waaaay better than the studio versions. There are some amazing performances out there on YT to check it out: Everything from From The Cradle Tour (his channel has some performances) Double Trouble - 1978 Bootleg, 1985 Kansas or one of his perfomances of this song in 1995 during From The Cradle Tour I shot the sherriff in 1990, 1996, 2004 at Crossroads and 2004 MSG (the last 2 are my favourites) Old Love - River Plate, 24 nights, ft Robert Cray, Unppluged (my fav accoustic solo all time) and in 1999 at MSG Edge of Darkness at 24 nights Voodoo Chile and Little wing ft Winwood
CREAM! Or… Derek & the D’s “Have You Ever Loved a Woman?” Good deduction about the plea to someone. Patti Boyd AKA Patti Harrison. Jam on, my friend. ✌️
Please also listen to these tracks from the same album “ Bellbottom Blues” “ Little Wing”( jimi Hendrix song) & “ Why does Love Got to be so Sad”. All worth it!👏🏻👍🏻❤️
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If you do a live version, the only one that stands up to the original is a version with Derek Trucks playing slide, I swear Derek is Duane Allman reincarnated
So you know, the girl he wrote this song for was Patti Boyd, who was George Harrison’s wife. While the Beatles were on the road, Patti and Eric fell in love and she left George for Eric.
found out at the end, derek and the dominos was the group!
Was just writing this as I read your comment. 😁
@@charlesgervais4673 Neat! WHAT were the chances? aaah.....maybe....
They named the group Derek and the Dominos only to really make one album together, this was at a time Eric Clapton got the great slide guitarist and member of the Allman Brothers the great Duane Allman to help him on this album. This is at a time when Eric Clapton was really longing to be with George Harrison's wife Patty and wrote this song Layla as a message to her.
Clapton wrote the song. He was in Derek and the Dominos.
It is a two for one with two of the best guitarists of the rock era Eric and Duane Allman
Eric Clapton is an English rock & blues guitarist, singer & songwriter. He is considered one of the best guitarists in the world & has had a great career in music. He was with many great groups before going solo. The Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Derek & The Dominos. He has had a lot of solo hits such as "I Shot The Sheriff", "Change The World", "My Father's Eyes", "Wonderful Tonight", "Cocaine", "Lay Down Sally" etc. Eric Clapton has done 2 versions of "Layla" over the years. One faster rock version & a slowed down version. Both are great!
This song has one hell of a backstory.
The song was written for Pattie Boyd, George Harrison's (The Beatles) first wife, while George was still married to her.
He was obsessed with her.
And she later divorced George and married Eric. They stayed friends even through all that, they used to call each other "Ex-husbands in law"
@@jasonremy1627 George called Eric his guitarist- in- law.
It was originally inspired by an Arabian story that Eric had been given a copy of called Layla and the Majnun
@@jasonremy1627 im sure they had an affair
Pattie Boyd got several song written for her GH wrote I Need You, If i Needed Someone, For You Blue and Something while EC besides this one wrote Bell Bottom Blues and Wonderful Tonight.
The only person to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times. Yardbirds, Cream, and his solo career.
The whole album was dedicated to his love for his best friend George Harrison's wife, Patti Boyd.
The piano coda is just incredible.
Actually written by Rita Coolidge but she never received credit for it. This is an iconic song
Known in some circles as the best rock song ever written
This song ends like a summer sunset... it lingers for a long time painting ever changing pictures until dark finally, peacefully descends at the end.
Derek and the Dominos was Eric's group that recorded this. The group backed a bunch of other artists of the era like Delaney and Bonnie, as well a George Harrison on his legendary "All Things Must Pass" album. They didn't have a names, but they just played together for other artists. When he brought them on board for his first solo album, he named them "Derek and the Dominos". It consisted of Jim Gordon on drums, Bobby Whitlock on keys and Carl Raddle on bass. On the day they recorded this song, the Allman Brothers were also in the studio, and Eric invited Duane to sit in on the session and lay down some slide guitar.
Thanks for the shoutout for Delaney and Bonnie. They, and their friends, are one of my all-time favorites!
There is a slowed down version that I have on my playlist. It's called Layla (Unplugged Edition) and is found on his Complete Clapton album. I'm sure it can be found on other albums also. So beautiful.
This version was from his MTV Unplugged show recording I believe
@@truckrboat, this is the original studio version. The slow bluesy version is with an acoustic guitar, hence the term "unplugged."
@@punkydoodle4774 I know, my response was to a previous comment not about this video
Most people know the last minutes of the song from the movie Goodfellas! It was put in the ending so greatly done!
He is a 3 time inductee of the rock and roll hall of fame .
Derek & The Dominos is still fronted by Eric Clapton, so this song is played and sung by Clapton himself and is not a cover. Thing is, he wrote a whole album about how he was in love with the wife of his friend George Harrison (guitarist of the Beatles), and he kind of didn't want to release it under his own name, plus he got guitar legend Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers to join the band as a side project, so it wasn't really Clapton's usual band or a traditional Clapton record. The whole album is awesome.
Not sure how anyone has not heard this... it's on one of the best rock albums ever. On my desert island 10.
Looking forward to your Eric Clapton journey. Solo, Derek & the Dominoes, Cream, Yard Birds, Blind Faith, Bluesbreakers, etc. omg you're in for a treat!
The guitarists are Eric Clapton, and Duane Allman, two of the best ever! Clapton wrote the song and Duane Allman created the main riff and the screaming slide guitar is his.
Eric was in so many bands and a solo performer but you have to hear the very underrated Bell Bottom Blues by him and Derek and the Dominos!!! Please Please listen and do it live!! You have so mucg to discover ftom this man, he's a super legend!!
That is my all time favorite of his regardless of which band
Clapton and Santana are my two favorite guitarists in the world. Thanks so much for reacting this one!
Love this song. You forget, we know the song, so we know what's coming. I love the end with the piano and guitar. Let the music take you on your own journey. Go where it goes.
Derek is Eric. Jim Gordon, the drummer, played that ending piano concerto!
Clapton was in Derek and the Dominoes🤓
I for one agree you should listen to this fantastic studio version first before going to the live versions, or to the vastly reworked slower one he did which is also quite popular but not for me.
TH-cam has some live versions I believe from the 90s of this original faster version that are just insanely great.
The outro to this song is just transcendent
Both versions of this song are Amazing!!!
Under the right circumstances, the piano outtro to this makes me cry - it just sounds like longing and nostalgia to me.
The first part of the song is the tumultuous part of the relationship, the second part is where there was bliss for a period.
By the time of this song's release (1970), modern rock had matured and could be AMAZING. This has always been a top ranked rock song for me. It's classic, hall of fame material from the very start. Offhand, I can't think of any hit song like it, especially not love songs, which are usually sweet and tender.
Eric Clapton was Derek and the Dominos
The slide work is done by Duane Allmann from the Allman Brothers.
I highly recommend Clapton's collaborate album with B. B. King, "Riding with the King". My favorite from that album is a cover of Sam & Dave's, "Hold On, I'm Coming". Each song is classic blues made by classic masters of the genre.
He's the only 3 time RnR Hall of Fame inductee, The Yardbirds, Cream and solo.
His peers believe him to be among the best.
He's high on my list!!
80's Clapton, when he covered a lot of artists and made it his own, especially J J Cale is very good.
"Layla" was written about George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd. They later married/divorced. George and Eric remained friends.
Clapton plays the guitar solo in the Beatles "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by Harrison.
Clapton wrote "Wonderful Tonight" for Boyd too and a few others.
Enjoy this journey, geez you can go so many directions!! ❤🥳
This song has a life of it's own
Duane Allman on the slide guitar...2 greats together.
Derek and the Dominos was a superb rhythm section fronted by Eric. In the recording studio, they happened on Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers and Duane sat in on severl of the songs on the album 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' which is one of greatest blues-rock albums ever made. Duane provided both lead and slide guitar tracks in addition to Eric's own stellar guitar work.
The rhythm section of Carl Radle and Jim Gordon were great, but I think it’s the keyboard work and vocals of Bobby Whitlock that set this album apart from other, post-Blind Faith , Clapton projects. Of course, the addition of Duane Allman didn’t hurt.
Nobody seemed to have mentioned that the slide guitar that's smoking throughout is not Eric Clapton but Duane Allman
That's Duane Allman on slide guitar, soaring over Clapton's ripping Stratocaster.
That riff was the late, great Duane Allman. Check him out.
Layla is one of the most magnificent songs of all time. His guitar-playing really comes alive here. One of my all-time favorites. I can listen to it over and over and never get tired of it. By the way, he was also in the band Cream. Check out Sunshine of Your Love when you have a chance!
White Room, Badge, SO many
One of Clapton's BEST!!😊😊😊
Eric Clapton Tears in Heaven!
I love the last half of this song. The slide work by Allman is fantastic.
There is a brilliant acoustic version of this that Clapton put out many years later that is well worth a listen.
Yep, Derek is Eric!
Clapton is often referred to as God in the rock world
Yes, it was totally written for someone special, and it worked, they were married for a number of years.
It's not really two songs, just the progression of the relationship. He got the girl (they eventually married), and it was all sunshine and flowers for a little while, and then it wasn't. They both have talked about it in interviews over the years. Sad story but incredible song (name was inspired by a Persian love story.) Keep going with his playlist - it's incredibly long and fabulous!
The original version, yes, that Eric sang was also great! It was slower and very popular. In fact it was SO GOOD that he/friends? thought that he could amp it up and see what happened. This is it!
This version, by Derek and the Dominos, with Eric on guitar and singing, is the original song. He did an unplugged version, years later, that was a fairly big hit at the time.
Eh?? This is the original?
@@peterwilkins7013 Yes October 1970. The unplugged version is from 1992.
Clapton in guitar icons Hendrix,Paige,Clapton,Stevie Ray…In several groups Cream “ Sunshine of Your Love”- Delaney& Bonnie…
Years later, he did an unplugged version, which runs at a much slower timing, with a very bluesy sound (and a hit of Spanish).
I find that version as my favorite take on the song.
The instrumental ending is called the coda. In musical terminology, a coda is a final musical expression to be played at the end of a major work.
Go look at pictures of a young Patty Boyd, and you will instantly know why so many songs were written about her.
In fact, this is Derek and the Dominoes, a short-live band. Clapton, well, was the vocalist and guitar player.
Can't believe you've never heard this. The greatest rock n roll song ever.
Love Clapton. One of the best guitatists of the last half century.
The late great Duane Allman on slide guitar. RIP
Eric Clapton Wonderful Tonight is a great ballad. Also, Tears in Heaven about the death of his 5 year old son who fell out of a New York high rise building. I Shot The Sheriff another older great song. It’s In The Way That You Use It from The Color of Money soundtrack is another great mid 80’s song by him.
Bell Bottom Blues Please!! You have to hear it!!
If you search the producer for layla on youtube you can hear Claptons guitar and Duane Allman"s slide guitar on their own. Duane really kicks ass
The live version is awesome
Eric Clapton did a wonderful performance on MTV Unplugged which produced one of his best albums. It includes the heartbreaking hit "Tears in Heaven" dedicated to his young son who fell 16 stories to his death in a hotel room.
The piano part was written by Jim Gordon, a classically trained pianist, for a song for Rita Coolidge his girlfriend at the time although she says she wrote it
Derek and the Dominoes only did one album. Eric wanted to get away from the fame that surrounded him at the time and release an album under a different name. Didn't really work as it soon became known that 'Derek was Eric'. Layla has become Clapton's signature song. The outro was added some time after the first part and apparently wasn't liked by Eric at first. The drummer - Jim Gordon had been working on a song with his girlfriend Rita Coolidge called Time. He took the piano part and added to the end of Layla. If you listen to Time it is pretty identical to the Layla outro. Rita claims she wrote the tune and was never credited with it. Layla went on to be one of the most famous songs ever. (As a side note Jim Gordon later murdered his mother and has been in a mental hospital ever since).
Grew up always getting asked if I was named after this song (I wasn't) so I haaaaaated it as a kid lol. Love it now though!
Slow hand. He was in Cream and Yardbirds with Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck (idk if you know who they are, but if not you *need* to find out) and so many other bands. What a riff, what a tune, an absolute classic.
Nice jam in the second part. Duane Allman on lead guitar.
Check out Traffic Management hitch was a earlier band with Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton. He was a part of the band Cream in the 60’s.
Entering a big rabbit hole, especially when if you include Cream
Definitely should check out more Clapton! Check him out in his band CREAM!
He also does an acoustic version which is really nice. What I like about your videos is that we know what's going to happen and I always smile at your reaction.
Eric Clapton nickname is Slowhand. Great guitar player. Top 5 of all time along with Jeff Beck.
I think you would like Joe Bonamassa's "Taken the Hit" live from Rockpallaste. It's with Eric Csar on bass, and is wonderful.
This was written for Patti Boyd, George Harrison's wife he fell in love with. Interesting they were able to maintain their friendship
Amazing song, love a bit of slow hands, amazing guitarist. still waiting for more Pearl Jam though lol ! love you reactions
Eric Clapton was in the yardbirds, blues breakers, cream, blindfaith, solo, Derick n the dominoes, solo again
I recommend reading about Patti Boyd, she was the muse for a slew of classic Rock songs. Harrison met her when she played a schoolgirl in the Beatle's "A Hards Day Night" She reminded him of Brigitte Bardot, and he took her home with him that night. Patti's sister Jenny was also in the movie. Jenny met Mick Fleetwood at School when she was 15, years later they married and had two daughters, the marriage ended when she found out that Mick had slept with Stevie Nicks after she broke up with Buckingham. Stevie Nicks joined her first band while at Arcadia High, I also went to Arcadia, My older brother went to school there with Michael Anthony of Van Halen although he had a different last name then. The Van Halen brothers were raised next door in Pasadena
You have just heard a classic for all time
Absolutely love this one!
the only 3 time inductee of the R & R hall of fame ever!
Please please show the live version. Your reaction would be very uplifting
I can’t wait till your first Dimash reaction!!! Pls react to SOS at the Slavic Bazar!! Your ears will be blessed and your mind will be blown!!
Slide guitar by Duane Allman 🔥
Clapton is the only person in the Rock and Roll H O F three times
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2 of the best playing off each other. Clapton & Duane Allmann ( Allman Brothers) This is a masterpiece in guitar masters/
From what I have read, this song was written for George Harrison’s wife Pattie; whom Eric had fallen in love with. In the end she left her Beatle, George and took off with Eric.
Greg Allman from the Allman Brothers Band played in this also.
Duane Allman on the guitar solo!
Glad that you started Eric Clapton. His live versions are waaaay better than the studio versions.
There are some amazing performances out there on YT to check it out:
Everything from From The Cradle Tour (his channel has some performances)
Double Trouble - 1978 Bootleg, 1985 Kansas or one of his perfomances of this song in 1995 during From The Cradle Tour
I shot the sherriff in 1990, 1996, 2004 at Crossroads and 2004 MSG (the last 2 are my favourites)
Old Love - River Plate, 24 nights, ft Robert Cray, Unppluged (my fav accoustic solo all time) and in 1999 at MSG
Edge of Darkness at 24 nights
Voodoo Chile and Little wing ft Winwood
Bell Bottom Blues on the same album.......it's a Clapton angst filled love song!
Okay but really do Eric Clapton! Blue Eyes Blue, My Father’s Eyes, Change the World, Tears in Heaven… He’s so good!
Derek and the Dominos was the band that Clapton was in.
CREAM!
Or… Derek & the D’s “Have You Ever Loved a Woman?”
Good deduction about the plea to someone. Patti Boyd AKA Patti Harrison.
Jam on, my friend. ✌️
"White Room" recorded by Cream. Clapton didn't sing lead, but it is one of the greatest R&R songs ever. Just sayn'
I saw him live.
Please also listen to these tracks from the same album “ Bellbottom Blues” “ Little Wing”( jimi Hendrix song) & “ Why does Love Got to be so Sad”. All worth it!👏🏻👍🏻❤️
Look at the members of Derek and the Dominos and follow their career paths.
In this outro "you don't need words to understand 👍
Yep
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Layla was someone else's wife....and Eric stole her away!! That "someone else" was George Harrison.
This song never becomes what it has without the greatest guitar player ever…Duane Allman.
You should also check out Bell Bottom Blues another great Derek and the Dominoes track
If you do a live version, the only one that stands up to the original is a version with Derek Trucks playing slide, I swear Derek is Duane Allman reincarnated
Check out "Bellbottom Blues "from the same album. ❤❤
So you know, the girl he wrote this song for was Patti Boyd, who was George Harrison’s wife. While the Beatles were on the road, Patti and Eric fell in love and she left George for Eric.