The Allman Brothers Band - Beginnings
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Artist: The Allman Brothers BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-10-14
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Don't Want You No More
- It's Not My Cross to Bear
- Black Hearted Woman
- Trouble No More
- Every Hungry Woman
- Dreams
- Whipping Post
- Revival
- Don't Keep Me Wonderin'
- Midnight Rider
- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
- (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
- Please Call Home
- Leave My Blues at Home
Music reviews of Beginnings
Music Review: Rediscovered
Rating: 5 Stars
If the only thing you know about the Allman Bros is Ramblin' Man or Southern Rock you need this "album" (showing my age as my first copy was on vinyl). First off, the very reason a genre gets a label is because it is different than what came before. There were many other bands who were to be labeled as Southern Rock and some were also excellent in their own right but, well get this CD and understand how unique this band really was. From the opening track where it is clearly everyone blasts out at you all at once from your speakers as if to say We're Here!, and realize this wasn't some packaged product (the band that is). Listen to the blues vibe as it melds into a jazzy riff and back to the blues in fiery solos first from Dicky and then Duane. Then it segues into a slow burner with one of the greatest blues voices as well as song writers ever (Greg Allman). Those two songs pretty much make as bold a statement about the band and what would come.
This is of course packaged with the second album all in one and you get some of the most classic songs ever such as Whipping Post and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. But they also include songs that you probably will never get to hear unless you buy this album. And that would truly be a shame. I would like to say as a guitar player myself that the interplay between Dicky and Duane clearly brought out the best in each of them. I have seen Dicky a number of times over the years and he has never sounded better than when he played with his "brother". I would like to point out to that people always talk about Duane and his mastery of slide guitar but personally I like his lead playing more. However, listen to Midnight Rider and the interplay between Dicky and Duane where they sound like one person playing a pedal steel guitar and I think you will hear Duane at his best ever on slide.
When I say that this wasn't just a Southern Rock band or even a Blues band (probably the closest designation) understand that they made pure music, damn the labels. There is along with the blues, country, jazz, gospel, Rock, you name it. Did you notice the mixed meter in Whipping Post, as an example? No simple 4/4 3 chord band by any stretch of the imagination. Who knows if they even knew if there was some technical name for what they were doing? I suspect it was pure emotion transfered to their instruments. Note too that this was 1969 when they formed and I don't think it mattered that they had a mixed race band. And did I say they were from the south? No, they were the Allman Brothers though technically only two were blood brothers. No statements, just pure music at it's best.
Description of Beginnings
For once, a record label actually gives us more bang for the buck, combining two indisputable classics--1969's self-titled debut and the 1970 follow-up Idlewild South--onto one glorious CD. Five urgent notes kick off Spencer Davis's "Don't Want You No More," and by the time that searing instrumental morphs into Gregg Allman's superb slow blues "It's Not My Cross to Bear," it's clear these Georgians mean business. Everyone talks of the Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon covers, the furious twin leads of Duane and Dickey Betts, Gregg's soulful voice and formidable organ, the percussion attack of Jaimoe and Butch Trucks, but what about the songwriting skills? Just start with "Cross to Bear," "Whipping Post," "Dreams," "Revival," "Elizabeth Reed"--are you kidding? These two records blend gritty blues, Southern soul, and psychedelic rock into an exciting creation, and they serve notice: the Allmans will contend for the title of best American rock & roll band. --Marc GreilsamerGeneral CDs
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