Eric Clapton the final name became "Derek and the Dominos". Clapton's close friendship with George Harrison brought him into contact with Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd, with whom he became deeply infatuated. When she spurned his advances, Clapton's unrequited affections prompted most of the material for the Dominos' album, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" (1970). Heavily blues-influenced, the album features the twin lead guitars of Clapton and Duane Allman, with Allman's slide guitar as a key ingredient of the sound. Working at Criteria Studios in Miami with Atlantic Records producer Tom Dowd, who had worked with Clapton on Cream's "Disraeli Gears", the
That's the Way It Goes (George Harrison song) drums and added snapback echo on the lead vocal. Madinger and Easter view Harrison's choosing to return to the track, five years after its recording, as evidence that he "rather cherished" the song. In another indication of his personal preferences, "That's the Way It Goes" appeared on the 1989 compilation album "Best of Dark Horse". The 1982 mix was used for this release. "That's the Way It Goes" was among the 35 songs that Harrison shortlisted to play on his 1991 Japanese tour with Eric Clapton, which was Harrison's first concert tour since 1974. Harrison, Clapton and the latter's band