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Gregg Allman's vocals are strong throughout the album, but his organ solos more often detract then add to the instrumental jams.
Half of the album is a 35-minute jam built around the theme from "First There is a Mountain". Recorded at the same Fillmore East concert series from which their third album was taken, the number fails to reach the near-perfection which characterized the long jams of the previous...
Barry Oakley's bass playing has always been solid, but this album shows, especially in his solos, that his sense of rhythm is much better developed than his sense of melody. He will probably continue to develop as the group grows, but he will amost certainly never be able to...
In the last two weeks Zircon has presented besides Montgomery two other local bluesmen of extraordinary calibre: Luther Johnson, a black guitarist who used to play in Muddy Water's band; and last week, Billy Colwell's blues band. Colwell is a longtime veteran of the Boston music world who...
McLaughlin has chosen to work toward a musical intensity that aims inward rather than outward. There is never a wasted note, yet the improvisation by each member of the group is always present, always building and directing the music. The band's music has integrity, perhaps more than that of...