Was there ever a more smokin’ band than the Allman Brothers? Here they are in 1995 doing one of my favorites (there are many): “One way out,” as recorded on their album “Eat a Peach”.
Lead guitarist Dickey Betts is almost unrecognizable without his moustache, but he’s in top form.
When I was younger the legend went around that the album title referred to Duane Allman’s death when his motorcycle hit a peach truck (it was a truck, but not a peach-laden one). The real source of the title is a bit more prosaic.
You have great taste in music Jerry, can’t wait to see what other genres of music you enjoy.
Les Brers are still smokin’ today, with Warren Haynes (in the vid) and Derek Trucks (Butch’s nephew) slingin’ those twin leads. A couple of monster guitar players right there.
Unfortunately, their music has been confiscated and sufficiently bastardized by an extensive list of fraternity party jam bands in Alabama.
Cannot even see the words “Allman Brothers” without I summon up a residual high. But perhaps this is not what you meant by “smokin'”.
My reaction exactly. I could listen to the band for whole weekends!!!!! And did.
Dickey is one of my strongest guitar influences. The way he stepped up and carried that band on Eat a Peach and Brothers & Sisters is incredible. Of course the best work is Duane and Dickey together. Despite all the talent, the Allman Bros. are just a high-priced cover band now.
you’re a nut.
Name their latest studio album. Without looking, name a song off of that album. How many original members do they still have? When they tour do they just play their greatest hits? Are they taking the kinds of musical risks that they took back in their heyday?
Yes. Many. Except, in the Southern USian garage jam brother-band genre, they are in a class of their own.
My older brother gave me a guitar for my 16th birthday. I hunched over it for hours a day, 7 days a week for 2 years; practicing scales, forming chords, driving my little brother (who I shared a room with) crazy by listening to 10 seconds of a song then lifting the needle to replay it over and over while trying to repeat with my hands what I’d heard.
But it wasn’t until I heard Live at the Fillmore that I learned what it meant to be a musician in the context of other musicians. Listening to that album once taught me more about music than the precious two years combined.
“One Way Out” is a cover of a song by the late great blues harmonica virtuoso Sonny Boy Williamson II, AKA Rice Miller, AKA Alec Miller. http://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+Boy+Williamson/_/One+Way+Out
I always assumed that “Eat a Peach” referred to the pretty young woman of Georgia.
This is one of the rare instances where, for me, a cover of a classic blues song surpasses the original. That is mainly because of the doubling of lead and slide guitar on the Allman recording. Duane Allman’s style can be easily imitated now, but, for his time, he got a great, unique sound out of the slide guitar.
Far out.