There have been many tales of terror, nervousness, and depression -- as well as raw excitement and anticipation -- since the Allmans went into the studio to make their first...
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The classic version of the Allman Brothers Band graced the planet for a period that was all too brief -- from 1969 through October 1971 -- but in the decades since there...
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The title of Best of the Allman Brothers: Hell and High Water is a bit misleading: it's actually only the best of the band's Arista-label output, which spanned a scanty two...
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The Allman Brothers Band's fifth live release in 25 years, cut during 1994 in Raleigh, NC, and at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey, is a high-water mark in their...
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The second album from Allmans Mach Two shows them holding their own, wearing their influences (especially gospel) a bit more on their sleeves, and even coming up with a...
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"Straight from the Heart" (#39), written by Dickey Betts and Johnny Cobb and sung by Gregg Allman, is one of the group's better accommodations to pop music, and on the...
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Mycology: An Anthology collects highlights from the Allman Brothers' '90s recordings for Epic Records. Although these latter-day recordings didn't quite reach the heights of...
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A good idea that worked out even better, with one small caveat. The Fillmore Concerts is made up of performances from the two Fillmore shows that originally comprised Live...
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Rebound's Legendary Hits compilation is no means complete picture of the Allman Brothers Band's legendary hits. The glaring omissions of three of their most well-loved songs...
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The record industry's blatantly greedy ploy of remastering and "upgrading" CDs is shameful. The sonics are usually improved, but the CDs could have been mastered properly...
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Recorded three months before Duane Allman's death, this double set is one of the best live records ever. The tunes are extended but the solos are, for the most part,...
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A good live album, but not quite the worthy successor to the Fillmore shows in their various forms -- the band is in form throughout this more than one-hour distillation of...
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This is where the group's CD release history gets complicated. Beginnings was originally put together by Atco as a double-LP to encourage new fans who'd missed them to buy...
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Brothers and Sisters, the Allman Brothers Band's first new studio album in two years, shows off a leaner brand of musicianship, which, coupled with a pair of serious...
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Spanning four discs and nearly 100 tracks, Dreams is one of those rare box sets that tells a story while delivering the definitive word on its subject. Its success has a lot...
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Hurried to the shelves after Duane's death, the double-LP is essentially half "Live At The Fillmore, Part 2" with Duane, and six subsequent studio cuts without him. Two...
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The Allman Brothers Band's best studio album since Brothers and Sisters is a loud, brash, hard-rocking collection of consistently solid if not first-rate songs. The singing...
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Another fine set of blues-based originals including the perennial "Midnight Rider," "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" and a dead-on cover of Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie...
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The best studio album in the group's history, electric blues with an acoustic texture, virtuoso lead, slide, and organ playing, and a killer selection of songs, including...
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Ninety-one minutes of the Allman Brothers Band in concert from a Cincinnati venue that they loved, nearly a year before their legendary Fillmore shows. The acoustics are...
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The band returns with a flash of life, apparently thanks to new guitarist Warren Haynes . But no matter how hard it tries, it still sounds like just another, albeit good,...
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The group's comeback album, their best blues-based outing since Idlewild South, and one that restored a lot of their reputation. With Tom Dowd running the session, and the...
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As was the case with Seven Turns, the band returns with a flash of life, apparently thanks to new guitarist Warren Haynes. But no matter how hard it tries, it still sounds...
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The group's follow-up to their comeback album is a major step forward, with more mature songs, more improvisation than the group had featured in their work since the early...
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One of the best white blues records--easily better than any of the British bluesmen--ever recorded. When it comes to what makes up blues--playing and singing that borders on...
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This might be the best debut album ever delivered by an American blues band, a bold, powerful, hard-edged, soulful essay in electric blues with a native Southern ambience....
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"All Night Train" kicks it off with more life and identity than the band has been able to muster in years. Things go downhill from there. Betts's writing continues to be an...
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After a year of personal and personnel problems, the Allman Brothers Band got back together to record the surprisingly consistent live-in-the-studio venture Where It All...
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A loser all around. Not only is the material inconsequential but Betts's lame attempt at imitating Duane's slidework is downright embarrassing while his faux country playing...
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Despite a good cover of Muddy Waters' "Can't Lose What You Never Had" -- highlighted by a great Dickey Betts solo -- the Allman Brothers Band sounds lethargic at times on...
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This live album was released by Capricorn Records largely as a way of raising money in a hurry, but it fares surprisingly well musically. The 1973-1974 Allman Brothers Band...
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When Gregg Allman was asked why Dickey Betts was kicked out of the Allman Brothers Band in the spring of 2000, he is reported to have suggested the answer lay in the tapes...
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With the 1991 compilation A Decade of Hits 1969-1979 still in print, you may ask why Polydor found it necessary to release The Best of the Allman Brothers Band as part of...
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The initial release of The Road Goes on Forever was solid, containing the simple basics of the Allmans' Capricorn recordings. The expanded version that Mercury released in...
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As any fan knows -- heck, as anyone who's listened to the radio since 1970 knows -- there was much more to the Allman Brothers Band than blues. Blues-rock, however, was a...
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For the first time anywhere -- officially or not -- two (mostly) complete performances by the Allman Brothers at the Atlanta International Pop Festival over the Fourth of...
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In Stand Back's subtitle, the word "The" is no mistake, nor is it a grammatical convenience. This sprawling two-disc set is the only cross-licensed retrospective to dig into...
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Do we really need another live double CD by the Allman Brothers Band? Oh yeah. In fact, when they play this well, we need them in droves. This collection marks the second...
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This compilation is highly debatable as to whether it's the "Essential" Allman Brothers Band on Epic or essential at all. But there are some nice things here. For one, if...
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