I know some of the early catalog, Bros and Sis, Fillmore, Idlewild, have received that treatment. The thought popped into my head the other day , why not the 90's era? We are going on well more than 30 yrs past Seven Turns, Shades, and WIAB. Any material left over, different mixes/ takes, demos, maybe include a live performance from the era, remaster , etc ? Maybe there is not the demand or interest...dunno.
Along those lines , I thought I remember reading where Gregg's manager, Michael Lehman was saying that he/ Gregg's estate would be releasing some material of Gregg's, shows and etc. See quote/link below. I know Laid Back was given a special edition. Any more in the works?
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/posthumous-gregg-allman-album-859051/
Lehman says the fleshed-out Laid Back will be the first of what may be an annual vault release of Allman’s work. (Luckily for Levenson and Lynskey, the master tapes, owned by Universal, were not stored in the West Coast facility where many masters were ruined in a recent fire. Like most of the material originally released on Capricorn Records, then home to the Allmans, the Laid Back masters were locked up in an East Coast facility.) Although Lehman says few original unheard studio recordings have been found in the vaults, plenty of release-worthy live tapes remain, including recordings of his five-night stand at New York’s City Winery in 2015. A comprehensive box set of Allman’s entire career, similar to one recently done on Duane, is also in the planning stages. As far as the long-out-of-print album with Cher, Allman and Woman: Two the Hard Way, Lehman laughs: “It’s all open for discussion.”
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
🤙hear ya - my own guess would be ‘not the demand or interest’ - mycology is a good overview of those 3 albums, along w/the 2 Evening With releases & the later Play All Night as far as live
….this era was also ripe for hi quality DAT recordings etc - so many awesome shows - must mention Aug 1994 Great Woods after the Woodstock show - haven’t listened to this era in Much too-long
🎵us fans are lucky b/c we have everything from it & great job indeed to all concerned
I love the ABB
Not many people around now who are that interested in the Allman Brothers Band under 40 or 45.
But the Brothers and Sisters book by Alan Paul with interesting interviews and perhaps interesting inside information and 50th anniversary of its release acknowledgement is coming up later this year.
And it's 50 years this fall since Laid Back came out.
We already know Gregg Allman thought Brothers and Sisters would not sell well and Gregg seemed to resent the album by far becoming their best seller saying he and the band wasn't prepared for that kind of success.
And we know Laid Back was recorded because Gregg was mad at the Allman Brothers for Queen of Hearts not making the album. And it later seemed from Gregg's statements it was Butch Trucks who led the way to keep Queen of Hearts off the album. Indeed Gregg eventually made it clear Butch Trucks was against Queen of Hearts and Gregg was still bitter about it.
Then Butchy's remarks after Dickey was gone indicating he didn't like Brothers and Sisters and the several songs which have a country western swing feel. He blamed Dickey for embarrassing him by sending the band in a direction foreign to the kind of band Duane Allman founded. And that Ramblin' Man was like a nightmare. It became a hit single and it's not the kind of song for the band to record and play live, that if he had it to do over, he would have fought hard to keep it off the album then Butch said if they had it to do over they should have fired Dickey after Duane died and hired two new guitar players and kept the band in the music bag they had with Duane. And all the modern country music and bands, Butch can hear the influence of how the band began to sound after Dickey took over and it was embarrassing.
Maybe much of this will be benign in Alan's book and much of it was just bluster from Butch. I for one am looking forward to the book and whatever may be released.
I won't dedicate this to Butch who was the backbone of the rhythm section of the band.
@robertdee without "ramblin man" its possible butch had no career anymore after 1975 but sure lets get mad at betts
@matt05 I like Butch and his drumming and his contribution to the band. But I like Dickey's even more.
Duane Allman allowed Blue Sky into the sets and the new next album for Duane and Duane even insisted Dickey sing it. Dickey said Gregg was the singer except the couple Berry sang so when he wrote Blue Sky, Dickey assumed Gregg would sing it if the band accepted it but Duane said Dickey's voice fit it better. Gregg ended up singing back up on it.
My hunch is if Duane had lived they would have recorded Ramblin' Man for the 5th album and Queen of Hearts would have been in it too.
In other words I doubt Duane would have refused Pony Boy or most of Dickey's songs. Duane went with Revival on the second album. It's not country but it was a different sound or style for the band in 1970.
@robertdee exactly. the drummer thinks he was going to veto a tune by the man who carried the song writing load after 1972? lol next thing ringo starr will tell us about the lennon/mccartney tunes he wish he had voted to exclude from sgt peppers
Not many people around now who are that interested in the Allman Brothers Band under 40 or 45.
But the Brothers and Sisters book by Alan Paul with interesting interviews and perhaps interesting inside information and 50th anniversary of its release acknowledgement is coming up later this year.
And it's 50 years this fall since Laid Back came out.
We already know Gregg Allman thought Brothers and Sisters would not sell well and Gregg seemed to resent the album by far becoming their best seller saying he and the band wasn't prepared for that kind of success.
And we know Laid Back was recorded because Gregg was mad at the Allman Brothers for Queen of Hearts not making the album. And it later seemed from Gregg's statements it was Butch Trucks who led the way to keep Queen of Hearts off the album. Indeed Gregg eventually made it clear Butch Trucks was against Queen of Hearts and Gregg was still bitter about it.
Then Butchy's remarks after Dickey was gone indicating he didn't like Brothers and Sisters and the several songs which have a country western swing feel. He blamed Dickey for embarrassing him by sending the band in a direction foreign to the kind of band Duane Allman founded. And that Ramblin' Man was like a nightmare. It became a hit single and it's not the kind of song for the band to record and play live, that if he had it to do over, he would have fought hard to keep it off the album then Butch said if they had it to do over they should have fired Dickey after Duane died and hired two new guitar players and kept the band in the music bag they had with Duane. And all the modern country music and bands, Butch can hear the influence of how the band began to sound after Dickey took over and it was embarrassing.
Maybe much of this will be benign in Alan's book and much of it was just bluster from Butch. I for one am looking forward to the book and whatever may be released.
I won't dedicate this to Butch who was the backbone of the rhythm section of the band.
That guitar solo is quite simply one of Dickey’s greatest. Incredible. Listening to the band right there with him is as Allman Brothers as anything
@robertdee: If everything you say is true, I guess Butch had some mighty thick hairs up his ass. Too bad. As you mentioned I bet Alan Paul explores some of this in his new book and I'm anxious to read it. For Butch's sake I just wish he would have employed a good tax professional.
I remember reading a long time ago, that Dickey was going to sell "Ramblin' Man"' and was talked into keeping it for the ABB.
@robslob Yes Butch Trucks was destroyed by the IRS. I assume it was the several personal business ventures he embarked upon such as Flying Frog Records etc and the business books were not kept properly.
The things I have mentioned Butch said in interviews and on his personal blog after Dickey was ousted.
I was surprised at how irritated Butch was about Dickey and some of it went way back to the early years.
That was too bad. Butch was a favorite of mine and a great drummer. Man you have to make sure everything is being paid when operating personal businesses. One thing is Social Security withholding. For yourself you need to pay twice as much. The employees part and the employers part.
I really enjoyed Butchy's blog in the 1990's. He would answer all the questions fans would ask. After Dickey was let go, that continued but he also became more public about his displeasure with Dickey and he just couldn't let it go.
Butch stated as soon as they wrote some new instrumentals all of Dickey's songs would be removed from the band and they were going back to how Duane envisioned the band. That never really happened. They had a year or so where they would do shows without a Dickey song but by 2006 they were playing more not less. Ramblin' Man was out though. Butch said that song would never be played by the band again and it wasn't.
RIP Butch.
@cb Yes Dickey said years ago he had intended to sell it to Merle Haggard but in a later interview he said Johnny Cash.
Butch said the only reason he participated in recording that song is because he thought it was a demo for a country singer. Then when it became clear Capricorn wanted it on the album, the long guitar solo on the end sounding kinda like the Allman Brothers so he didn't object at the time but regretted not trying to block it later.
Alan's book may have some of this in it. Looking forward to the book.
Someone lists the TEN BEST SONGS from the Allman Brothers Band.
https://singersroom.com/w5/best-the-allman-brothers-band-songs-of-all-time/
