“Let It Grow” by Eric Clapton

"Let It Grow" sits on 461 Ocean Boulevard, Eric Clapton's 1974 album, and it's a spiritual ballad that works as a love song or a hymn, depending on who's listening. It starts out hushed and folky and keeps building, through arpeggios with a Beatles glow and a few bluesy licks, until it swells into an electric, full-band finish.

Clapton wrote it and sings it, playing guitar and dobro alongside George Terry's guitar, with Carl Radle on bass, Jamie Oldaker on drums, Dick Sims on organ and Albhy Galuten on piano and synthesizer. Yvonne Elliman, Terry and Tom Bernfield sing backup, and Tom Dowd produced. Years later, Clapton himself heard a family likeness to Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".

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