Jazz Articles about Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band

by Doug Collette
February 17, 2004

Idlewild South (Capricorn/UMG) 1970When you measured your music by sides of lp's, there were few if any comparisons to side one of this one. From “Revival" to “Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" through “Midnight Rider" and “ In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,' this sequence of tracks showed how the band had improved since their first album and how much producer Tom Dowd accelerated the pace of that progress The Allman Brothers Band ...

The Allman Brothers Band: The Fillmore Concerts

by C. Michael Bailey
February 15, 2004

The Allman Brothers Band The Fillmore Concerts (Polydor 314 517 294-2) The Blues is atomic music in the respect that as a part of American Popular Music it is an indivisible element, one that cannot be deconstructed. The Blues is a part of every genre of popular music: Rock, R&B, Jazz, Country, Bluegrass, and Rap. How did the blues insinuate itself into every popular form of American Music? By being pulled through and ...

The Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East (Deluxe Edition)

by C. Michael Bailey
January 12, 2004

And the road goes on [and on] forever... What a cluster bang! Enough already! In my series of the Ten Greatest Live Rock Recordings of all time, I claimed that The Allman Brothers: The Fillmore Concerts, was the best of the best. I later rescinded that determination in favor of the Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus (The Deluxe Edition). (Universal Records is a real group of crafty Bastards!) I was prepared to reconsider because of Universal Chronicles/Mercury's ...

The Allman Brothers Band: Hittin' the Note

by C. Michael Bailey
October 16, 2003

The Allman Brothers Band last recorded a studio album of new material in 1994 ( Where It All Begins, on Epic). Since that time, the band fired original member Dickey Betts and added Butch Truck’s nephew, Derek, plus the exquisite bassist, Oteil Burbridge. This nominal lineup appeared on Peakin’ at the Beacon to the reserved glee of this writer. With Betts gone, only three original members of the band remain and do you, gentle reader, understand what that means?

The Allman Brothers Band: Peakin' at the Beacon

by C. Michael Bailey
August 1, 2001

Everything is right...and wrong with the latest Allman Brothers Band release.

This is likely to be the last new release of an Allman Brother's recording with founding member Richard Betts in tow. Betts was unceremoniously fired from the band earlier this year, prompting this critic to wonder how the founding member of a band can be fired. Moreover, how that member who contributed “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", “Blue Skies", “Jessica", and “Ramblin' Man", the only true commercial success the ...