Gregg Allman - Laid Back
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Artist: Gregg AllmanBrand: ALLMAN,GREGG BAND
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-01
Music Label: Polydor / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Midnight Rider
- Queen Of Hearts
- Please Call Home
- Don't Mess Up A Good Thing
- These Days
- Multi-Colored Lady
- All My Friends
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Music reviews of Laid Back
Music Review: LAID BACK IS BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED, ROMANTIC, AND FULL OF TEARS (It also has the slow, swampy version of Midnight Rider)
Rating: 5 Stars
In 1973 Gregg Allman went into the studio to record his first solo album with Chuck Leavell, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Scott Boyer and Tommy Talton of Cowboy, Allman Brothers Band producer Johnny Sandlin, and produced a near perfect album of reflective, sorrowful, romantic, and acoustically beautiful songs, and it has been the hallmark of his solo recording career. The production is glossy, yet never overdone. The acoustics are crisp and clear, the orchestration is lush yet never intrusive, and the musicianship is precise and professional. Gregg's voice has never sounded better as he interprets these songs of love, loss, hope, sadness, and regretful contemplation.
The opening song, Midnight Rider is done with an acoustic guitar, a dobro, an electric piano, horns, and bongo drums. It's that excellent, slow, swampy version that you've heard on the radio. Queen Of Hearts is a love song that features some great vocals from Gregg and a jazzy tempo change for the piano and saxophone solos. Please Call Home has gospel singers and electric guitar along with the standard piano the Allman Brothers song is known for. Allman steps up and rocks a little bit on the piano boogie Don't Mess Up A Good Thing. The Jackson Browne penned These Days is a highlight here and of Gregg's solo career. With an arrangement that features a beautiful pedal steel guitar and Allman's mournful vocals, the song will send you into thoughtful rumination and it sounds just great. Multicolored Lady is an acoustic guitar and orchestra ballad that tells the tale of the singer boarding a bus and sitting "next to a broken-hearted bride". It's sentimental , and the tender story of two lonely strangers holds your interest as it unfolds. All My Friends is an acoustic guitar based song with plenty of orchestration and a nice electric guitar solo. Very moody, very contemplative, and very good. The spiritual Will The Circle Be Unbroken closes the album with a full-tilt gospel arrangement, and Gregg's most sorrowful singing ever. With the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley still recent, the song takes on a new life, once again, and sounds as sad and melancholic as it ever has.
Laid Back is a beautiful album, with many moods and textures, and it has a sort of resigned and reflective feel to it. This is the type of album that's best listened to on a cold and cloudy or rainy afternoon, while sitting next to a window. It's Gregg Allman's most romantic and well produced solo album,and probably his best, too.
Description of Laid Back
Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2008.By the end of 1973, the Allman Brothers Band seemed to have it all nailed down. They'd proven their mettle with a fine synthesis of blues, jazz, folk, and country influences; expanded upon it with the definitive Fillmore East set; and moved forward after the separate losses of guitarist Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley. The group's myriad strengths, in fact, might've been the reason that one of their most obvious gifts--Gregg Allman's pained, growling voice--was sometimes overlooked. Laid Back, Gregg Allman's first solo disc, seems in part an effort to gain a little more recognition. It worked, particularly given the strong radio response to its opening track, a loping remake of "Midnight Rider." Likewise, much of the album's remainder finds Allman tweaking the band's blues ("Queen of Hearts") and country sides (a cover of Jackson Browne's "These Days"); horns and gospelish backing vocals add to the personal, often mournful feel. Much more coherent than its dated cover art (an either childlike or blasted-out-of-his-gourd Gregg ignoring a blazing volcano) indicates, Laid Back is an often convincing version of the man's music. For Allman, it would get much, much worse before it would be this good again. --Rickey Wright
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