Word: allmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allman Brothers' Eat A Peach is a transition album. Most of the album was recorded live before Duane's death; only the studio side was recorded after...
...continuing puzzles about the Allman Brothers is their lack of effective use of the two drummers. Most of the time the two seem to be doing the same rhythmic patterns, and as a result the duo is not much more effective than either one would be playing alone...
...Allman Brothers music was based to a great degree on the interplay between Duane's cutting blues-oriented slide and Dicky Betts's acid-oriented lead guitar. The group's music will have to change, but the shift in direction is not yet clearly visible...
...third album was taken, the number fails to reach the near-perfection which characterized the long jams of the previous album. The beginning and end of the song are brilliant expositions of dual guitar work, but the intervening bass, drum, and organ solos cannot sustain the musical intensity of Allman and Betts's guitars...
...FIRST side is the one recorded after Duane's death. The best of the three songs is Gregg Allman's "Melissa...." Bets's guitar playing on this song is almost unquestionably the best of his career, and the song as a whole is hauntingly beautiful...