Allman Brothers Band – Nothing Short of a Stupendous Experience
Allman Brothers Band Rosemont Theatre August 29, 2007 By: Anthony Kuzminski For years I have heard about the lore of the legendary Allman Brothers Band and their concerts. Those who speak of the shows do so in a mystical manner and I can’t even express how poetic these people feel about this band, their music […]
Allman Brothers Band Stunning and Immensely Inspired
By: Chris Cooper For: The Smoky Mountain News So, answer me this: how many people, artists especially, can maintain a vital career for 38 years and counting? Musically speaking, how many of them could possibly continue performing material from their first few albums and still manage to find new places to go with it, new […]
My WANEE 2006 EXPERIENCE/JOURNEY!
By: Krishna Cecil What a WANEE 2006!! I didn’t think that it could’ve topped last year’s WANEE festival,but I was wrong! First of all,if you haven’t been to the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak,Florida….then go as fast as you can!(Your spirit will thank you for it!) There is something beautiful about […]
Randall Bramblett…Macon Music The Old Fashioned Way
Randall Bramblett and the band are busy Macon music the old fashioned way, and were in Macon at the 550 Blues doing just that last weekend. The celebrities in the audience added to the buzz, and Bramblett was brilliant. Ah…Macon, GA…brilliant music, marvelous people, a city that historically demands the best from musicians, and…Did I […]
Live Music On Demand
By: Edna Gunderson For: USA Today December 14, 2005 In pop antiquity, the fan who missed the hot-ticket rock show had to settle for a breathless critique, a muddy bootleg or the negligible possibility that a song, buffed and overdubbed, might crop up years later on a live album. Today, consumers can pick up freshly […]
Live at the Filmore included in Library of Congress
Apr 5, 12:05 PM (ET) By CARL HARTMAN WASHINGTON (AP) – The discovery of a previously unknown recording by jazz masters Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane was announced Tuesday by the Library of Congress as it revealed this year’s additions to its National Recording Registry. Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first words from the moon, speeches by […]
A Few Words about a “New” Eat A Peach…
Very little has been written about The Allman Brothers Band’s performance of Eat A Peach last September, broadcast in December over XM satellite radio. This review will appear in the next issue of Hittin’ The Note. * In case you missed it…On September 28th, 2004, The Allman Brothers Band recorded Eat a Peach at the […]
Why the Allman Brothers Band is the Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers Band developed their recipe in 1969, just like Colonel Sanders developed the recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken, it doesn’t matter who’s doin’ the cookin’ as long as his recipe is being followed by people capable of following it – it will be KFC Chicken. Regardless if they actually realized their formula at […]
ABB To Recreate Eat A Peach
ABB To Recreate Eat A Peach XM Satellite Radio has announced the inception of a new monthly series entitled, “Then…Again…Live!” Over the coming months artists will reinterpret classic albums live in front of studio audiences. The show will debut on September 19 with Cheap Trick and Live at Budokan. Other participants include Lynyrd Skynyrd- Pronounced […]
Mark McGee–Gregg Allman’s Crusing Guitar Shark
By: Bill Thames Cruising the music scene, just below the surface, like a shark looking for the next place to strike; Gregg Allman and Friends guitarist, Mark McGee continues to transform and evolve, demonstrating how incredibly diverse he can be. Much like legendary guitarist, Danny Gatton, Mark McGee remains one of the world’s greatest unknown […]