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
Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse Ric Grech and again Ginger Baker. Some of the Powerhouse recordings have also been re-released: "Crossroads" was included on Winwood's compilation album "Winwood" in 1971, under the name Powerhouse; "I Want to Know" was included on Clapton's compilation "The History of Eric Clapton" in 1972, as the Powerhouse; and both were released together on Winwood's compilation "The Finer Things" in 1995, credited simply to Eric Clapton. "Crossroads", "I Want to Know", and "Steppin' Out" were included in Jack Bruce's anthology "Can You Follow?" in 2008. Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse was a British blues rock