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Songs as Mental Health Break: Layla, Derek and the Dominoes (1970) [1]

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Date: 2024-06-23  

If you are like me, you will need mental health breaks to maintain your sanity this year. For my part, I am starting my day with a great song, working alphabetically by song title (note: this does not mean a single song per letter). In comments, predict the next song, let me know a deserving song I have passed by, or tell me why this was an awful choice. Enjoy!



I will get this out of the way in advance LOL: As I have said before in this series, and undoubtedly will again, the choices are entirely divorced from both the politics of the artist(s), and my personal feelings towards them.

”Eric had the middle of the song, the title and some lyrics. Duane wrote the intro and Jim Gordon came up with the piano part with Rita Coolidge, who he was dating at the time. The strange thing was the album didn’t sell very well at first and the song itself wasn’t a hit until a year-and-a-half after the band broke up.

A college radio station picked up on the extended album version with the piano coda and kept playing it over and over. Duane was dead, everybody else was strung-out and doing other stuff – and all of a sudden, the song was like the alternative national anthem.

By then, nobody even really knew who Derek And The Dominos were. The song just took its own wings, and flew itself.” — Bobby Whitlock



Yesterday: Lay Down, Priestess

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