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Bobby Whitlock (born in 1948 in Memphis, Tennessee ) is a session musician, best known for being a member of Derek And The Dominos . BIOGRAPHY Raised in Arkansas and Memphis, Whitlock began playing piano at many sessions at the legendary Stax Studios by the time he was a teenager. Whitlock was also the first white artist signed to Stax Records. Upon seeing him perform in a Memphis club, Delaney And Bonnie Bramlett asked Whitlock to join their band. Whitlock began a friendship with Eric Clapton when Delaney & Bonnie and Friends toured with Clapton as their lead guitarist. Whitlock soon became part of Clapton's "Derek and the Dominoes" project, co-writing many of the songs and playing and singing on most of the album that became '' Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs '' (such as the lead vocal on his own "Thorn Tree in the Garden"). With essentially the same band, he played on George Harrison 's '' All Things Must Pass ''. During the 1970s Whitlock released four solo albums. The first one, self-titled, was released in 1972 . '' Raw Velvet '' featured Eric Clapton on "Dearest I Wonder", who was heavily influenced by Duane Allman's playing after the Layla sessions. After his 1976 album '' Rock Your Sox Off '', Whitlock laid low for most of the 1980s and 1990s, living on a farm in Tipton county, Tennessee and doing session work. In 1999 , he returned to music with '' It's About Time ''. Today Bobby is teamed up with wife CoCo Carmel and the two have released a live album titled "Other assorted Love Songs." They are also working on a new studio album (produced and engineered by Carmel, it features a new version of "Layla" with CoCo Carmel on sax), and they play acoustic sessions on Tuesday nights at the Saxon Pub in Austin, Texas , where the two moved in 2006. DISCOGRAPHY
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