The Allman Brothers Band: At Fillmore East (2LP) [ISLAND]

Why you'll love it

This 2LP set is pressed on 180g vinyl in a gatefold jacket, remastered from the original analog tapes. At Fillmore East was the band's breakthrough, their first platinum album, and in 2004 the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry.

This edition

• 2LP set
• 180g vinyl
• Remastered from the original analog tapes
• Gatefold jacket
• Pressed in the Netherlands
• Stereo mix

About the album

Seven songs across four sides of vinyl doesn't sound like value for money until you hear what the Allman Brothers Band do with them. Recorded over three nights at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York in March 1971, this is the sound of a band stretching out and finding, night after night, that there was more road ahead.

Duane Allman and Dickey Betts weave twin lead guitars through Elmore James's "Done Somebody Wrong" and Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues," Gregg Allman sings "Stormy Monday" like he means every word, and "You Don't Love Me" takes up a whole side. Then come Betts's instrumental "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" and a 20-odd-minute "Whipping Post" that became the band's signature. Berry Oakley's bass and the twin drummers, Butch Trucks and Jaimoe, keep every jam moving, and Tom Dowd produced.

The band preferred to call themselves "a band that jams" rather than a jam band. Either way, side four is a fine argument for buying a comfortable chair.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Capricorn / Mercury, a reissue of the 1971 live album.