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“Layla: Forty Years On” Radio Special … Listen On whereseric.com

Where’s Eric! is now streaming "Layla: Forty Years On". Hear the entire hour-long radio broadcast, hosted by New York Radio Personality, Jonathan Clarke. It has interviews with Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock and more along with tracks from the newly remastered Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs 40th Anniversary Editions.

In 1970, Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon formed Derek And The Dominos. The musicians met when the latter three were in Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, and their band opened for Blind Faith on their 1969 tour of America. In the fall of 1970, along with Duane Allman, they recorded the landmark album, Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs, at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida. Universal Music Entertainment has released several different editions to mark the album’s 40th Anniversary. To further commemorate this extraordinary event, Jonathan Clarke hosts an hour long U.S. radio broadcast examining the band’s history and their music. Produced by Ben Manilla and Erik Beith for Media Mechanics, the special features interviews with Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, Eddie Van Halen, Tom Dowd, and Duane Allman biographer Randy Poe along with tracks from the newly remastered 40th Anniversary Editions.

And coming up this weekend – 2 and 3 April – is the House Of Blues Radio Hour on stations across the United States. Hosted by Elwood Blues this week’s show will feature a two-hour interview with Domino Bobby Whitlock. For a list of stations that carry the program, click here. The show’s not on in your market or you live outside the U.S.? Not to worry, you can listen to it online at thebluesmobile.com.

The presentation of the Layla: Forty Years On radio show on whereseric.com is part of our multi-week Derek And The Dominos and Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs Celebration. It will continue online through 26 April, so keep checking whereseric.com for more Dominos-related content. Even the forthcoming issue of Where’s Eric! Magazine (#42) will get in on the Layla action with a series of exclusive articles about the band and the classic album. Want to know more about Where’s Eric! Magazine? Click here.

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LAYLA: FORTY YEARS ON
Hosted by Jonathan Clarke
Produced by Ben Manilla and Erik Beith
(c) 2011 Media Mechanics

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