Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Statesboro Blues - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks
2. Trouble No More - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Aaron Baron, Larry Dahlstrom
3. Don't Keep Me Wonderin' - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Thom Doucette
4. Done Somebody Wrong - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Thom Doucette
5. Stormy Monday - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Thom Doucette
6. One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks
7. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks
8. You Don't Love Me / Soul Serenade - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Thom Doucette
9. Midnight Rider - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Aaron Baron, Larry Dahlstrom

Disc 2:

1. Hot 'Lanta - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks
2. Whipping Post - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks
3. Mountain Jam - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Aaron Baron, Larry Dahlstrom
4. Drunken Hearted Boy - The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Dowd, Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Elvin Bishop, Steve Miller, Bobby Caldwell

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6567 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-16
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Extra tracks, Live, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .37 pounds
• Running time: 134 minutes

CD Description
The original Fillmore East album is one of the finest live documents of the rock era, capturing the original line-up ofone of the 70s' tightest outfits before they were cruelly robbed of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Taken from five 1971performances at New York's fabled Fillmore East, the extended and effortlessly melodic workouts of 'In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed' and 'Whipping Post' remain definitive recordings. The dual guitar interplay of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts glides effortlessly over the propulsive rhythm section of Oakley and twin drummers Jaimoe and Butch Trucks, while Greg Allman's powerful blues voice and melodic keyboard work provides the icing on the cake.

Customer Reviews

Deluxe indeed! This is the one to get
This repackaged double-disc reissue of the Allman Brothers Band's classic 1971 Fillmore West concert restores the original mixes, and presents them in truly stellar sound quality.

On the previous CD issue of the Fillmore concerts, producer Tom Dowd chose alternate takes and messed around with them, trying to create the ultimate listening experience by mixing bits of various takes together. However well-intentioned his attempt was, it didn't always improve the music (and sometimes it ended up doing the oppostite).
Now, this is not a complete end-to-end recording of one of the four Fillmore shows either, but it does restore the original un-tampered-with LP mixes, presenting a more authentic picture of what it was that people heard on those two days in March, 1971. And it is magnificent. The sound is crystal clear, with depth and nuances, and each instrument, Thom Doucette's harmonica in particular, sounds better and crisper than ever before. Honestly, I'm listening to it right now on my computer, with its standart-equipment speakers, and it sounds GREAT!

The first disc opens with a biting four-minute "Statesboro Blues", followed by an equally lean and mean rendition of the riff-driven "Trouble No More" with searing slide guitar by Duane Allman and Dickey Betts (wonderful solo about half way through the song). And then comes Gregg Allman's "Don't Keep Me Wondering", a superb performance with lots of great harp playing and a galvanizing slide guitar solo.

Gregg Allman then introduces "an old Elmore James song" (James had been dead less than eight years at the time), and the band lay down a terrific, muscular rendition of "Done Somebody Wrong" with more wonderful harmonica playing, including a gritty solo, after which the tempo goes down for a nine-minute "They Call It Stormy Monday", one of the band's finest pure blues covers, featuring a stellar 99-second guitar solo.

Rice Miller's "One Way Out" is performed as an up-tempo boogie with a rock n' roll-like urgency, and then comes "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed", Dickey Bett's classic instrumental, and a 19-minute (!) take on Willie Cobbs' "You Don't Love Me", which breaks down half way through to allow for a lengthy instrumental jam. (The Allmans' lenghty jams sometimes have the ability to bore casual listerers to tears, but this one is actually really good.)

Disc one winds down with a lovely, mellow, three-minute version of "Midnight Rider", and disc two opens with "Hot 'Lanta", a slightly psychedelic instrumental which isn't the most memorable thing the Allmans ever did, followed by an extravagant 22-minute take on the epic blues lament "Whipping Post".

Also featured here is the relatively rare "Drunken Hearted Boy", and the same never-ending "Mountain Jam" which first appeared on "Eat A Peach", including Duane Allman's stunning solo after the drum break, culminating in a grand instrumental rendition of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken". Everything is logically sequenced to resemble an actual 1971 Allman Brothers set list with the tight, bluesy stuff coming first, followed by the extended jamming, and this, to me, is the defintive reissue of the Fillmore tapes, better than "The Fillmore Concerts", and much better than the original seven-track LP.

Equipped with excellent liner notes which include a fine essay, this is the one to get. The sublime first disc earns it all five stars.

Allman for Allblues... when a début is a masterpiece
so gooood!!!
rhythm, joy in playing, matching music and life

I've come to this band from the best guitarists' list, and read all the reviews at Amazon's.
And then I was not disappointed.
I'd like to say a couple of tips:
first, without any doubt, BUY THE DELUXE EDITION (anyway I had bought both);
then, about the track "Mountain Jam", I think it's very long but absolutely good, one of the best of the album whenever the best

Hot Allmans
It's debatable whether you need to pay extra and get the Deluxe reissue of the Allmans' classic live CD, but there's no doubting the quality of the original. The first four tracks reveal a tight blues unit giving equal prominence to all band members. It isn't surprising that Eric Clapton played alongside Duane Allman on 'Layla'. The band's sound bears a close resemblance to that which Clapton would later employ, except that it's more exciting and intense. Even so, these first few tracks are like a warm-up for what follows. After a great rendition of 'Stormy Monday', they turn on their best style. The lengthy, jazz-inflected 'Elizabeth Reed' and even longer 'You Don't Love Me Baby' are top vintage Allmans, while the closer 'Midnight Rider' is one of the highlights from the superb 'Idlewild South' album.

The bonus disc contains four performances amounting to 68 minutes. 'Hot 'Lanta' is a fine track and 'Drunken Hearted Boy' pleasantly doleful. 'Whipping Post' is one of the highlights of their debut album and they launch into it with suitable relish. 22 minutes is pushing it even for a great song, however, and the half hour long 'Mountain Jam', while it starts hot and funky, ultimately typifies the self-indulgence that rock music of the 1970s is often lambasted for. Nevertheless, there's plenty to get excited about here even without these gargantuan items.