Derek and the Dominos
"Bell Bottom Blues"
Single / B-side: "Keep on Growing" / re-release backed with "Little Wing"
Album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Released: 1971
Writter: Eric Clapton
Label: Atco Records
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"Bell Bottom Blues" is a song written by Eric Clapton and performed by Derek and the Dominos. It deals with unrequited love and appears on the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. It has often been suggested that Bobby Whitlock may have contributed to the composition of the song. As a single, backed with "Keep on Growing". A re-release backed with "Little Wing". The song also appears on several Eric Clapton compilation album, among others Eric Clapton at His Best (1972) and 20th Century Masters / The Millenium Collection (2004). In many appearance Clapton frequently performed this, one of them is packaged in live album 24 Nights (1991).
"Bell Bottom Blues" was recorded before Duane Allman joined the recording sessions, so Clapton is the only guitarist on the song. Clapton compensates for this by playing multiple guitar parts, including a sensitive, George Harrison-style guitar solo and chime-likeharmonics.
Bell-bottoms are a style of trousers that were popular at the time. According to Clapton, the song was written for Pattie Boyd after she requested him to get her a pair of bell bottom blue jeans from the United States. Clapton wrote the song for her, along with many others on the album such as "I Looked Away" and "Layla". The lyrics describe a lovers' quarrel.
Eric Clapton wrote the music for the one and only Derek and the Dominos album while still completely obsessed with Pattie Boyd. Bell Bottom Blues" was the first song he finished for the project. "Pattie asked me to get her some pairs of these jeans we used to call Landlubbers," Clapton wrote in his memoir. "Which were hipsters with two little slip pockets at the front. She had asked for flared rather than straight bottoms." That simple request led to one of the all-time great unrequited love songs in rock history, and Clapton's anguish is painfully clear in every note of this song.
The band was in France when the inspiration for this song hit. Says Whitlock: "Eric met this girl, she was like a Persian princess or something, and she wore bell bottoms. She was all hung up on him - he gave her a slide that Duane (Allman) had given him and he wrapped it in leather and she wore it around her neck. She didn't speak a word of English and they had to date through an interpreter. That relationship did not last but a week. He started the song over there, then when we got back to England, we finished it up in his TV room in Heartwood Edge."
Author Jan Reid praised Clapton's singing on the song, noting that his phrasing manages to suggest that despite the pain he is feeling, the woman's antics remind him of the "joy of just being alive." Bill Janovitz of Allmusic wrote: "... it his vocal performance that is remarkable; not only one of his personal best, but one of the finest in rock & roll...."
In a review upon the album's release, Rolling Stone writer Ed Leimacher called "Bell Bottom Blues" (as well as "Have You Ever Loved a Woman") filler. A retrospective of the album in Rolling Stone praised the song as an epic that "feels as if it's going to shatter from the heat of its romantic agony." In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, J. D. Considine cites the song as an example of how Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is "about the transformation of the blues, a process Clapton and his band mates manage through a variety of means", writing that the song "distills the pop-blues approach of Blind Faith and Cream into a memorable chorus and exquisite metaphor".
"Bell Bottom Blues"
Single / B-side: "Keep on Growing" / re-release backed with "Little Wing"
Album: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Released: 1971
Writter: Eric Clapton
Label: Atco Records
__________________________________________________________
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a song written by Eric Clapton and performed by Derek and the Dominos. It deals with unrequited love and appears on the album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. It has often been suggested that Bobby Whitlock may have contributed to the composition of the song. As a single, backed with "Keep on Growing". A re-release backed with "Little Wing". The song also appears on several Eric Clapton compilation album, among others Eric Clapton at His Best (1972) and 20th Century Masters / The Millenium Collection (2004). In many appearance Clapton frequently performed this, one of them is packaged in live album 24 Nights (1991).
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| Derek and the Dominos single "Bell Bottom Blues" 1971 (Art cover courtesy of Atco / Polydor) |
Derek and the Dominos - "Bell Bottom Blues" (single 1971)
Bell-bottoms are a style of trousers that were popular at the time. According to Clapton, the song was written for Pattie Boyd after she requested him to get her a pair of bell bottom blue jeans from the United States. Clapton wrote the song for her, along with many others on the album such as "I Looked Away" and "Layla". The lyrics describe a lovers' quarrel.
Eric Clapton wrote the music for the one and only Derek and the Dominos album while still completely obsessed with Pattie Boyd. Bell Bottom Blues" was the first song he finished for the project. "Pattie asked me to get her some pairs of these jeans we used to call Landlubbers," Clapton wrote in his memoir. "Which were hipsters with two little slip pockets at the front. She had asked for flared rather than straight bottoms." That simple request led to one of the all-time great unrequited love songs in rock history, and Clapton's anguish is painfully clear in every note of this song.
Derek and the Dominos - "Bell Bottom Blues" (album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, 1970)
Author Jan Reid praised Clapton's singing on the song, noting that his phrasing manages to suggest that despite the pain he is feeling, the woman's antics remind him of the "joy of just being alive." Bill Janovitz of Allmusic wrote: "... it his vocal performance that is remarkable; not only one of his personal best, but one of the finest in rock & roll...."
Eric Clapton - "Bell Bottom Blues" (Live Video Version, 2007)
Eric Clapton - "Bell Bottom Blues" (Royal Albert Hall, London, 1990)
In a review upon the album's release, Rolling Stone writer Ed Leimacher called "Bell Bottom Blues" (as well as "Have You Ever Loved a Woman") filler. A retrospective of the album in Rolling Stone praised the song as an epic that "feels as if it's going to shatter from the heat of its romantic agony." In The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, J. D. Considine cites the song as an example of how Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is "about the transformation of the blues, a process Clapton and his band mates manage through a variety of means", writing that the song "distills the pop-blues approach of Blind Faith and Cream into a memorable chorus and exquisite metaphor".
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| Derek and the Dominos 1971 |
Line-up / Musicians:
Eric Clapton - vocals, lead guitar
Bobby Whitlock - Hammond organ, harmony vocals
Jim Gordon - drums, tabla, backwards snare,
Carl Radle - bass guitar, percussion
Links / Review:
Wikipedia: Bell Bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominos song)
Eric Clapton official site: ericclapton.com
Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine: Eric Clapton Discography/Derek and Dominos
Songfacts: Bell Bottom Blues by Derek & the Dominos
Rolling Stone: Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Eric Clapton Songs
Eric Clapton - vocals, lead guitar
Bobby Whitlock - Hammond organ, harmony vocals
Jim Gordon - drums, tabla, backwards snare,
Carl Radle - bass guitar, percussion
Links / Review:
Wikipedia: Bell Bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominos song)
Eric Clapton official site: ericclapton.com
Where's Eric! The Eric Clapton Fan Club Magazine: Eric Clapton Discography/Derek and Dominos
Songfacts: Bell Bottom Blues by Derek & the Dominos
Rolling Stone: Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Eric Clapton Songs
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