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 at His Best American distribution. It was the first of two compilations of Clapton's early work that Polydor would issue; the second, "Clapton", was released in mid-1973. Now out of print, "Eric Clapton at His Best" was available during the years 1972-76. The album contains songs from Clapton's lone album with his 1969 band Blind Faith, his eponymous 1970 album, and from the lone studio album by Clapton's 1970-71 band Derek and the Dominos, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" (1970). Eric Clapton at His Best Eric Clapton at His Best is a two-LP compilation of Eric Clapton's early solo work, released in