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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Unlike Bessie Smith and Bobby Baker, who made "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" famous during Prohibition, a British Rock Star isn't quite believable blowing his money on bootleg whiskey.
Alliterative Title: "Bell Bottom Blues".
All Love Is Unrequited: As some of the song titles might give away, the Clapton/Harrison/Boyd Love Triangle was a bit of an influence...
Big Rock Ending: "Layla" has one of the seminal codas in rock history.
Blues Rock: The genre this album belongs in.
Country Music: "It's Too Late" is a country blues recorded specifically to get the band onto The Johnny Cash Television Program.
Cover Version:
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Blind Bobby Baker
"Key to the Highway" by Big Bill Broonzy
"Have You Ever Loved a Woman?" by Freddie King
"Little Wing" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"It's Too Late" by Chuck Willis
Early-Installment Weirdness: A downplayed example. The opening tracks feature multiple guitar overdubs and the album switches to live-in-studio once Duane Allman joins in.
Epic Rocking: Six of the album's fourteen tracks top the six-minute mark: "Keep on Growing" (6:22), "Anyday" (6:37), "Key to the Highway" (9:38), "Tell the Truth" (6:45), "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?" (6:51), "Layla" (7:04). "Key to the Highway" would have been even longer had the producer captured the beginning of the band's performance.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The album features "Layla" and other assorted love songs.
Friendly Rival in Mourning: Jimi Hendrix died during the band's initial tour. When the time came to record the album, the Dominos recorded "Little Wing" as a tribute.
My Friends... and Zoidberg: The album title puts "Layla" in a more important position, compared to the other love songs on the album.
One-Woman Song: "Layla".
One-Word Title: "Anyday".
Pun-Based Title: "Bell Bottom Blues" is likely a reference to the "Black Bottom Blues", a Dance Sensation during The Roaring '20s.
Questioning Title?: "Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad?", "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?"
Rearrange the Song: The older blues covers are rearranged as rockers while "Little Wing" gets a grander arrangement than The Jimi Hendrix Experience's original.
Silly Love Songs: ...and Other Assorted Love Songs indeed. Though one is about a dog...
Sixth Ranger/Special Guest: Duane Allman joined for the recording of "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" and remained for the entirety of the sessions. Though strictly speaking not officially a member of the band, he is absent on only three tracks on the finished album.
Something Blues: "Bell Bottom Blues"
Surprisingly Gentle Song: Even more striking coming right after "Layla", "Thorn Tree in the Garden" is an acoustic ballad - a White Guy with Acoustic Guitar Song, if you will.
Textless Album Cover: Just a picture.
Truck Driver's Gear Change: In the vocal portion of "Layla", the Epic Riff is in D minor, then it jumps to C-sharp minor for the verse, which resolves in into E major, before it falls back down into D minor for the chorus, then repeats that pattern over and over. A notable example of a big modulation in a rock song that isn't just restricted to the last verse. The coda is in C major.
Unrequited Love: A theme in some songs. See All Love Is Unrequited.
Updated Re Release: CD releases of the album from 1990 onward manage to store the entire 76:44 album across a single disc, owing to unofficial revisions to the Compact Disc format around that time that increased the maximum capacity from 74 minutes to 80; prior to this, the album had to be released across two CDs.
Vocal Tag Team: Clapton and Whitlock did the vocals In the Style of Stax duo Sam & Dave, often with the singers alternating verses before singing together on the choruses.