The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
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Artist: The Allman Brothers BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1997-10-14
Music Label: Island / Mercury
Soundtracks:
- Ain't Wastin' Time No More - The Allman Brothers Band, Allman, Gregg
- Les Brers in A Minor - The Allman Brothers Band, Betts, Dickey
- Melissa - The Allman Brothers Band, Alaimo, Steve
- Mountain Jam - The Allman Brothers Band, Allman, Duane
- One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band, James, Elmore
- Trouble No More - The Allman Brothers Band, Waters, Muddy
- Stand Back - The Allman Brothers Band, Allman, Gregg
- Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers Band, Betts, Dickey
- Little Martha - The Allman Brothers Band, Allman, Gregg
Music reviews of Eat a Peach
Music Review: This one is a keeper
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is a gem--prior to the advent of CDs, I think I wore out 5 or 6 copies of this album on vinyl, and I've kept them all--even the old, worn-out ones. The Allman Brothers Band are often compared with the Dead, but at their best, IMO, they were far better--tighter, more disciplined, even while they were playing "out there." Unlike the Dead's jams, which often seemed chaotic and pointless, under Duane's leadership, the Allman Brothers' jams were more like controlled fire. As good as the rest of the tracks on Eat A Peach are, the second half of the Mountain Jam is for me, the perfect display of Duane Allman's compositional and melodic genius on guitar. After Berry Oakley's bass solo leads into the entire group coming together, Duane lays down several minutes of a thorough schooling in modal improvisation that, even after almost 40 years, still never fails to be awe-inspiring in its tension-and-release: every second counts, not a note is wasted. His three-part solo begins with his slide guitar floating over the swinging rhythm section, building a simple two-note phrase into an intense ride up into the stratosphere, rising toward an intense climax. He gently brings it back down and it almost feels like he's taking a breath before launching himself once again, this time without his slide. The rest of the band is happily along for the ride, so in tune with him, you can tell they're feeling it the same way he is, building their support, riding underneath him as he goes tearing off. He brings it back down again, but he's still not finished, he then does his rendering of the old gospel tune, "Will the Circle be Unbroken," with his inimitable tone, so smooth and sweet it can bring tears to your eyes. Finally he's finished and then leads the band back into the "Mountain" theme, finishing up almost an hour of continuous music. In his announcing the members of the band at the end, you can tell he's exhausted but exhuberant, as is the whole band, jazzed with what they've just done. Give this track another listen, or two or three, preferably more, those who "get it" will never listen to music the same way again. There's just a few musicans who have that spiritual feel to their playing so intense that it's hard for me to listen to anything else after hearing them--John Coltrane is one, Duane Allman is another.
Description of Eat a Peach
Not the Remastered Version.Having firmly established themselves as "The Grateful Dead of the South" via their enormously successful 1971 Live at the Fillmore East double album, the Allman Brothers had just begun work on a new studio collection when slide guitarist Duane Allman died in a motorcycle accident. Undaunted, the group rallied together and completed Eat a Peach, which, via inclusion of the 34-minute-plus "Mountain Jam," blossomed into a double LP. While keyboardist-singer Gregg Allman shone on tracks like Sonny Boy Williamson's "One Way Out" and his own "Melissa," it was second guitarist Dickey Betts who came out from under the departed Allman's shadow with his lead vocal on "Blue Sky" and his incendiary playing throughout. --Billy Altman
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