Derek and the Dominos were a blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton

Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...

 with keyboardist Bobby Whitlock

Bobby Whitlock

Robert Stanley 'Bobby' Whitlock is a songwriter and performer, best known as a member of Derek and the Dominos.- Biography :...

, bassist Carl Radle

Carl Radle

Carl Dean Radle was a bass guitarist who toured and recorded with many of the most influential recording artists of the late 1960s and 1970s...

 and drummer Jim Gordon

Jim Gordon (musician)

James Beck "Jim" Gordon is an American recording artist, musician and songwriter. The Grammy Award winner was one of the most requested session drummers in the late 1960s and 1970s, recording albums with many well-known musicians of the time, and was the drummer in the blues-rock supergroup Derek...

, who had all played with Clapton in Delaney, Bonnie & Friends

Delaney, Bonnie & Friends

Delaney & Bonnie – in ensemble called Delaney & Bonnie & Friends – was a rock/soul revue fronted by husband-and-wife singer/songwriters Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett....

. Duane Allman

Duane Allman

Howard Duane Allman was an American guitarist, session musician and the primary co-founder of the southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band...

 was also invited by Clapton to sessions to add slide guitar to a number of tracks.

The band released only one studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is a blues-rock album by Derek and the Dominos, released in November 1970, best known for its eponymous title track, "Layla"...

. The album featured slide guitar from guitarist Duane Allman

Duane Allman

Howard Duane Allman was an American guitarist, session musician and the primary co-founder of the southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band...

, who contributed powerful slide guitar work on most of the cuts on the album.