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Features Disc of the day
The Allman Brothers Band
…At Fillmore East
(Polygram, 1971)
Southern longhairs make their mark with heavy blues live set…
Conversation here at MOJO recently turned to the treacherous field of contemporary blues-rock – a genre whose chief exponents regularly commit heinous crimes against music with their syrupy songs, redundant guitar solos and expensive haircuts. Thankfully, it wasn’t always like this. In the late ’60s, Duane and Gregg Allman – two brothers raised against the Florida’s sun’n’surf backdrop – embarked on a riotous, often tragic, journey from local jam-band favourites to ’70s southern-blues saviours. This recording of their weekend stint at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East in March 1971 remains the pinnacle of their chequered lifespan and, unlike so many live albums, encapsulates the essence of a band operating at their instinctive best. You may stare open-mouthed at the 10-minute-plus running time of You Don’t Love Me, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed and Whipping Post, particularly when the original album only contains a total of seven tracks. This shouldn’t put you off. The tight, bristling interplay of guitarists Dickey Betts and Duane Allman should be enough to keep even the most hardened listeners interested and there’s always Jaimoe Johanson’s clattering percussion or Gregg Allman’s gospel burr and circling Hammond organ to satisfy the less six-string obsessed. Still, is it even worth beginning to mess with a band that call their drummer Butch Trucks? Like CCR’s Born On The Bayou, …At Fillmore East rolls along at the perfect pace, the cover shot of six road-worn crazies joking in front of their flight cases slowly coming to life each step of the way.
Ross Bennett
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 14/08/2008
Further Listening
The Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker (Def American, 1990)
Santana – Abraxas (Columbia, 1971)
Derek & The Dominoes – Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (Polydor, 1970)
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A definite must-have and far better than the two studio albums that preceeded it by just picking the best tracks off those and junking the rest.
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