6/30/2011

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs HiRes 96kHz/24bit

"...a rare thing in supergroups, a marquee combo with true superpowers: modern-blues virtuosity charged with the exultant lust and anguish of Southern R&B." -David Fricke, Rolling Stone, March 2011.



I purchased 40th anniversary box and hesitated to purchase Hires, but did it since HDTracks offered 15% off for 2 days.

Disc 1: Original LP (originally released as Polydor 2625 005 (U.K.)/Atco SD 2-704 (U.S.), 1970)
  1. I Looked Away
  2. Bell Bottom Blues
  3. Keep on Growing
  4. Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out
  5. I Am Yours
  6. Anyday
  7. Key to the Highway
  8. Tell the Truth
  9. Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?
  10. Have You Ever Loved a Woman
  11. Little Wing
  12. It’s Too Late
  13. Layla
  14. Thorn Tree in the Garden
Disc 2: Bonus material (deluxe and super-deluxe editions only)
  1. Mean Old World
  2. Roll It Over
  3. Tell the Truth
  4. It’s Too Late (Live on “The Johnny Cash Show” – 11/5/1970) *
  5. Got to Get Better in a Little While (Live on “The Johnny Cash Show” – 11/5/1970) *
  6. Matchbox (with Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins) (Live on “The Johnny Cash Show” – 11/5/1970) *
  7. Blues Power (Live on “The Johnny Cash Show” – 11/5/1970) *
  8. Snake Lake Blues (New Mix) **
  9. Evil (New Mix) **
  10. Mean Old Frisco (New Mix) **
  11. One More Chance (New Mix) **
  12. Got to Get Better in a Little While (Jam) *
  13. Got to Get Better in a Little While (New Mix) **
* previously unreleased recording ** newly remixed recording
Disc 2, Track 1 from The Layla Sessions (Polydor 847 083-2, 1990)
Disc 2, Tracks 2-3 from Atco single 45-6780 (U.K.), 1970
Disc 2, Tracks 8-11 and 13 originally released on Crossroads (Polydor 835 261-1, 1988)

Interview With Bill Levenson by Where's Eric


I think the difference between remastered CD & this HiRes edition is subtle, I can say slightly more natural and analog like sound, but the substance of the difference from previous release is tighter midrange, especially bass guitar sound is much clearer than before and auditory lateralization is also much much stable.
Recommended if you haven't got remastered CD album.