Another Allman Brothers Live Album Featuring Duane Allman, SUNY Stonybrook

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May 042012
 

Did you know there are other Allman Brothers live albums featuring Duane Allman? Yes, there are and you can get them here!

Recorded at S.U.N.Y. at Stonybrook in September 1971, just a few weeks before the death of Duane Allman. The band is really gelling on this recording. Duane Allman and Dickey Betts have perfected their twin leads and really try to out-do each other on their solos.

Berry Oakley’s bass rumbles through the mix, showing that he was more than just the bottom keeper.

Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny Johanson, Jaimoe, are certainly the best pairing of drummers in rock history. Each has their own style but they come together so well.

And Gregg Allman is in great voice and shows his talent on the Hammond B-3 organ.

Live from SUNY Stonybrook gives us an eleven minute Blue Sky and a nineteen minute Dreams. Along with other Allman Brothers’ classics like Statesboro Blues, One Way Out, Stormy Monday and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.

Order your copy today and hear how great a live band The Allman Brothers Band with Duane Allman really was.

 

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Did Duane Allman Sing? Yes, Duane Allman Did Sing! Listen Here…

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Apr 302012
 

Did Duane Allman sing? I’ve been asked that question a few times and the answer is Yes, Duane Allman did sing. I think Duane is a good singer. He has the passion and the phrasing. Gregg Allman may be one of the best blues singers ever but Duane Allman could sing too.

Listen here to this recording of The Allman Brothers Band at The Warehouse in New Orleans in 1970. Duane Allman sings Dimples, a song made famous by John Lee Hooker.

Don’t forget Gregg Allman’s autobiography, My Cross To Bear is released tomorrow. Click on the photo of the book here to order your copy.
Unti Gregg Allman Memoir

Here are some links to shirts and music featuring Duane Allman. Anything else can be found in The Duane Allman Store tab above.

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Buy Gregg Allman’s Autobiography My Cross To Bear

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Apr 252012
 

Click the photo below to buy Gregg Allman’s autobiography My Cross To Bear. The book is set to be on the shelves May 1st and you can order your copy today.
Unti Gregg Allman Memoir

In his autobiography, Gregg Allman shares his life, the highs, the lows, the “highs” and everything in between. Gregg opens up about his struggles with drugs and alcohol, his failed married to Cher (and his five other failed marriages). Gregg tells of his childhood days with his brother, Duane, and how they got into music. You’ll read about the arrests and the liver transplant. Gregg even speaks lovingly about his children and grandchildren.

Gregg tells how the Allman Brothers Band came to be, how they broke up, how they reunited, how they re-broke up, how they re-reunited and how it is today. Of course he talks about the departure of Dickey Betts. Actually Dickey Betts comes across as Gregg’s biggest foil, but Gregg says he wishes Dickey the best.

If you’re a fan of Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers Band or Southern Rock, Gregg Allman’s autobiography is a must have.

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Here we have a video of The Gregg Allman band performing “Whipping Post” quite differently than the way the Allman Brothers play it.

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Duane Allman Interview, WABC-FM, A Little Amped Up

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Apr 232012
 

Man, Listen here to a wild Duane Allman interview from WABC-FM, New York City, recorded in 1970. Man. Man.

Duane Allman admits to being drunk and I suspect he’s on a little bit more. Doing a bunch of “D-O-P-E and actin’ “C-R-A-Z-Y” is how Duane describes what’s going on in his life.

Duane talks of putting the band together, naked pictures at Otis Redding’s place, playing on Layla, his daughter and his old lady. Recording in Muscle Shoals, not Memphis.

This Duane Allman interview goes against the stereotype of slow talking Southerners.


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Levon Helm Has Passed Away. Warren Haynes Pays Tribute to Danko and Helm

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Apr 202012
 

The legendary Levon Helm has passed away. Warren Haynes performs “It Makes No Difference” and “The Weight” in his encore to pay tribute to his friend.

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Levon Helm Is Dying of Cancer, May He Rest In Peace

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Apr 172012
 

The time is coming to an end for one of the most distinctive voices in rock and roll. Levon Helm is dying of cancer. Levon’s website announced it today and ask that we keep Levon in our hearts and prayers.
Levon Helm was raised in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas just off US Highway 49. The son of a cotton farmer, Levon grew up chopping cotton and driving a tractor. He left Arkansas to play rock and roll with Ronnie Hawkins in the late 1950s. Hawkins couldn’t promise Levon fortune or fame but promised he “would get more p***** (sex) than Frank Sinatra.”

Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks were very successful in Toronto, Canada and over the years the Hawk would add Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson and Garth Hudson. After a few years with Hawkins the set out on their own and were snatched up by Bob Dylan as he prepared to change from folk music to rock.

After a number of years with Dylan the group recorded their own songs and came up with the great name of “THE BAND”
Their first two albums, Music From Big Pink
and The Band
(The Brown Album) are masterpieces in the world of rock music.

The Band had the most glorified end of touring when they recorded The Last Waltz.

Levon Helm will be remembered as one of the most loved and respected musicians of the last 50 years.

May he rest in peace.

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In His Autobiography, Gregg Allman Says It Came To Him On Dauphin Island

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Apr 132012
 

*****UPDATE*****
The location of the venue played by The Allman Joys in the article below has been confirmed by a local resident as The Casino.
*****UPDATE*****

In his autobiography, Gregg Allman says it came to him on Dauphin Island, Alabama “Man, everything is going to be all right. You don’t have to worry about going back to school.’ For the first time, I believed it, I felt it.”

Yes, just a few miles down the road from where I was toddling around hoping my brother would play Meet The Beatles again, Gregg Allman, Duane Allman and The Allman Joys were playing Dauphin Island. In the summer of 1965 Gregg Allman and Duane Allman had just left their home in Dayton Beach, Florida in hopes of making a go at music.

Here is a live recording from February 1966 of The Allman Joys doing the Animals’ song “We’ve Got To Get Out of This Place”

In Gregg Allman’s soon to be released book, My Cross To Bear, he says “One Sunday we had an off day, (from Pensacola) and this guy asked us to come over to Dauphin Island, Alabama, down the way from Mobile. I’ll always remember the room–it was exactly the size of the original Fillmore West. It looked like it, it felt like it, same ceiling height, and there were a lot of people there, man.”

Gregg goes on to say it was the first time he had seen festival seating, wall-to-wall people and that the Allman Joys wowed the crowd.

I have asked around but I’ve yet to find anyone that can verify the location. From the description given in Gregg Allman’s book I believe the Allman Joys were playing The Casino.

The Casino on Dauphin Island

The Dauphin Island Casino

 

 

 

Here is a photo of Fillmore West in San Francisco.

Fillmore West

Fillmore West, San Francisco

 

 

 

 

I find it interesting that Dauphin Island is where Gregg Allman had the revelation that music really would be his life. In My Cross to Bear
Gregg says that he thought he might play music for two years and then get back to school and go on to be a dentist. He may have been a great dentist but I do not believe that even if he was the greatest dentist in Florida that I’d be writing about him.

I’m glad he found the music and his music made it’s way to me.

You can buy Gregg Allman’s Autobiography, My Cross To Bear, by clicking on the photo below.

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Duane Allman an anthology side one

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Apr 122012
 

Duane Allman an anthology side one is the focus of today’s post. This great album, I have a beautiful vinyl version, should be in every true music lover’s collection. For Duane Allman an anthology on vinyl, CD or MP3 click here

Released in 1972 after Duane Allman’s death, Duane Allman an anthology features 19 cuts (21 if you break out the medley) that all show Duane’s prowess on guitar. This album is a great primer for the person who is just getting to know Duane Allman. It is also a great album for those that want to hear a true master at his craft.

Side one begins with Hourglass and their B.B. King Medley of “Sweet Little Angle”, “It’s My Own Fault” and “How Blue Can You Get.” Recorded in 1967 at Fame Studios in an attempt to get a sound truer to their real sound, Hourglass took a big chance and lost. Well, lost might not be the right word. Their record company, Liberty, rejected the album when the boys brought the tapes to L.A. The music is considered great by us Allman Brothers fans but Liberty was trying to package Hourglass as a pop band and this record just was not a match.

Song number 2 is Wilson Pickett and “Hey Jude.” By now many people have heard the story of the black Wilson Pickett and the hippie Duane Allman being left at the studio while the proper white musicians went to lunch in Muscle Shoals. Duane thought it would be really cool for Wilson Pickett to cover the recently released song by The Beatles. Duane’s playing isn’t obvious until 2:55 seconds into the song, but once it comes in we all know who it is. Within months of The Beatles taking “Hey Jude” to number one, Wilson Pickett and Duane Allman took it into the top 20.

The third song of An Anthology is “Road of Love” by Clarence Carter. Clarence Carter has always been an enthusiastic performer. On “Road of Love” Clarence can’t contain himself when Duane Allman breaks loose on a lead run. Clarence shouts “I like what I’m listenin’ to right now!” as Duane’s guitar soars above the mix.

The final song from side one is Duane Allman doing the Champion Jack Dupree song “Goin’ Down Slow.” This came from Duane’s recording sessions at Fame Studio as an attempt to make it as a solo artist. Rick Hall, the studio owner thought that maybe Duane’s exceptional guitar work might be enough to cover for his ordinary vocals, but the album was aborted before completion. Though Duane Allman may not be the greatest singer I think he does a good job singing. He certainly has some soul in his voice. This session also gives us the earliest paring of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Jai Johanny Johansen, Jaimoe, was present for the recordings but didn’t make it on the tapes.

That wraps up side one of Duane Allman an anthology. I’ll be back soon with more.

CLICK ON ANY OF THESE LINKS TO GET THE SONGS


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Duane Allman Wilson Pickett Hey Jude

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Apr 112012
 

What a combination; Duane Allman Wilson Pickett and Hey Jude. This is the song that really set Duane Allman’s short career in motion. Duane had recorded a number of songs in Rick Hall’s Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama but this is the first one to really be a hit.

To hear the Muscle Shoals musicians tell the story is a hoot. It was 1968 in Alabama where the white musicians got some looks from the locals if they were seen hanging out with a black man, but they got even worse looks when they went out in public with a hippie like Duane Allman. It was Alabama. Alabamians had always seen black people but they weren’t used to hippies yet.

The story goes on that both Wilson Pickett and Duane Allman didn’t feel too comfortable going out for lunch so they stayed behind at the studio. It’s likely they fed their minds instead of their bellies, then Duane convinced Wilson to record “Hey Jude”. The song had only been recently released by the Beatles, but Duane had worked up his own arrangement for it. Pickett wasn’t too familiar with the song and was reluctant to record it because he had “a lot of Jewish friends.”

Rick Hall thought is was crazy to cover a song by The Beatles, but Duane Allman had a way of getting people to go along with him.

By time the rest of the recording crew got back from lunch, Skydog and Wicked were ready to lay it on the other cats. They were going to put “Hey Jude” on record. The musicians at Fame were seasoned pros so it didn’t take long for them to get their parts ready. But I don’t know if anybody was ready for what Duane Allman was about to unleash. Right at the 2:55 mark in the song you hear Duane Allman’s guitar come blasting in from nowhere and it continues throughout the rest of the song.

That lead guitar run signals the start of Southern Rock! It wouldn’t be until 1969 that The Allman Brothers Band album was released but that guitar lead got Duane Allman noticed by many people including Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records.

Duane Allman and Wilson Pickett took Hey Jude to #16 on the pop charts and #13 on the R&B charts.

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Duane Allman at the Love Valley Festival 1970 with the Allman Brothers

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Apr 092012
 

Duane Allman is the focus of this camera at the Love Valley Festival in July of 1970. The story goes that a teenage girl wanted to travel to Woodstock but her father wouldn’t let her go. So to appease her he promised he would hold a music festival for her at home in North Carolina.

Big Brother and The Holding Company was one of the acts, another was the Allman Brothers Band.


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