Whitlock, Bobby – Raw Velvet – New LP

Whitlock 1972.  Second solo album (the first one also from 1972). 

Bobby Whitlock Biography by Rob Caldwell: "Though he's best known as a member of the short-lived but groundbreaking group Derek and the Dominoes, Whitlock has had a very impressive musical career. Raised in Arkansas and Memphis, by the time he was a teenager he was playing on many of the sessions at the legendary Stax Studios and was in fact the first white artist signed to Stax Records. With a soulful voice soaked in gospel, R&B, and blues and accomplished keyboard skills, it was only a matter of time before the limelight found him. Upon seeing him perform in a Memphis Club, he was asked by Delaney & Bonnie to join their band. Whitlock would soon be part of  Derek and the Dominoes project. Co-writing many of the songs and playing and singing on most (that's him doing the lead vocal on his own "Thorn Tree in the Garden"), Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs was almost as much a Whitlock album as it was a Clapton album. With the same band, he played on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and was also an uncredited musician on the Rolling Stones' influential Exile on Main Street a few years later. The 1970s also saw him release four expressive solo albums. Raw Velvet featured some of Duane Allman's most heartbreaking and breathtaking slide playing (uncredited due to contractual legalities) on the track "Dearest I Wonder," recorded shortly before he died.