“Key To The Highway” by Derek and the Dominos

"Key to the Highway" is the old Big Bill Broonzy and Charles Segar blues, and Derek and the Dominos cut it for Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs in 1970, one of several versions Eric Clapton would record over the years. The song had been passed hand to hand since Segar first recorded it in 1940, and the Dominos add their own chapter to that long lineage.

Clapton sings and plays guitar alongside Duane Allman, while Bobby Whitlock plays piano, Carl Radle holds the bass and Jim Gordon drums. The band produced it themselves, no outside hand on the wheel.

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