I listened through to the beginning of the drum solos on Les Brers in A Minor. Enjoyed it. I'll finish it after dinner. 

They got better as it went along. Ain't Waisting Time No More was good. Gregg and Dickey seemed a little tentative and laid back but that slowly dissolved and the band picked it up. Dickey's tone is thin. But that zebra pickup Les Paul was thinner than his other Les Paul. I assume that is it. Dickey had it on all the 1973 and 74 shows I saw except a brighter cherry sunburst LP with pickguard and pickup covers for slide. 

That jam after You Don't Love Me was way cool. Long and unpredictable and fun to listen to. I really dug that!! 

This is April of 1973. They were headlining by then off the strength of all the shows from the original band building a reputation and the big sales of Fillmore East and Eat A Peach which reached number 4 and sold over 1 MILLION copies and eventually over 2 million. 

But they had no idea what was coming. Gregg was looking forward to his solo album with hopes it would be a big seller. Gregg doubted Brothers and Sisters would do as well as Eat A Peach and Fillmore East. 

But it zoomed to number ONE and stayed there for five weeks selling over 5 million copies and there was a top 10 single Ramblin' Man which reached number 2. 

By the time they got into the fall of 1973 the Allman Brothers was the biggest American band selling out coliseums and arenas coast to coast. 

In Gregg's book and a couple of interviews Gregg apparently did not like the band becoming that big. He said they were just not prepared for that and it caught him off guard. 

In the 2000s Butch Trucks apparently didn't like it either in some blogs. Butch didn't like the country influence that album and later albums  had on some songs and how it influence the modern country guitar bands. Butch said he could hear that influence in those bands and it was embarrassing as Butch didn't like that music and they should have fired Dickey when Duane got killed and hired new guitar players and stuck to the sound and kind of music they played in the early years and on Fillmore East. 

I didn't know what to think about that talk when Butch was blogging. He seemed okay with Dickey until about the early 1990s but it didn't get out in the open until later. He was even in Betts, Hall, Leavell, Trucks but he did leave when it became clear the record labels were going to ignore them. 

I have a Capt Skipper remaster of this show ... I believe this show contains the earliest known live recording of Come & Go Blues

@harvey It doesn't have Ramblin' Man which is fine. They did some great versions of Ramblin' Man in late 1972 and 73 with some serious jamming while Dickey really stretched it out but by 1974 and forever they often performed a truncated version of the jam at the end. Occasionally Dickey would stretch it out but not often.  Gregg was proud of Come And Go Blues. I think they did it close to how it was written which was a beef Gregg had about how some of his songs changed so much after the ABB worked them up. 

I chuckled when guys in the audience were yelling for Whipping Post so early in the set. Right before Come And Go Blues actually. Gregg promises them they will eventually play Whipping Post. 

Maybe they should have played it first for awhile and go it over with. 

Posted by: @harvey

I have a Capt Skipper remaster of this show ... I believe this show contains the earliest known live recording of Come & Go Blues

I have that show as well. Sounds great! At least from what I recall. I need to find my copy because I haven't downloaded it to my iTunes. I didn't know the thing about Come and Go Blues.

@lee Here is about the best LIVE Ramblin' Man I've heard. November 1973. Dickey really stretched it out and the other guys really jam behind him. Especially Chuck, Lamar and Jaimoe!! 

People from Georgia come from near and far to hear Richard Betts picking on that red guitar!!! Charlie Daniels wrote that. 

Dickey is REALLY ROLLING on that Ramblin' Man solo. Derek and Warren couldn't top that!!!! 

( not that it's technically better than Derek and Warren. It's just Dickey with the afterburner on in his unique style) 

Posted by: @robertdee

People from Georgia come from near and far to hear Richard Betts picking on that red guitar!!! Charlie Daniels wrote that. 

Dickey is REALLY ROLLING on that Ramblin' Man solo. Derek and Warren couldn't top that!!!! 

( not that it's technically better than Derek and Warren. It's just Dickey with the afterburner on in his unique style) 

I have one of The Volunteer Jams and Charlie sings that. That is another CD I need to dig out. And believe it or not, Ted Nugent plays a song too. I can dig Ted just fine but that is an odd combo to me. 

I think Charlie aim was to get a broad collection of artists (Ted Nugent, Dobie Gray, Papa John Creach) even though a lot of them ended up being country or southern rock.

ABB (with Chuck!) Volunteer Jam 1986.

Charlie Daniels' Youtube channel actually has a lot of Volunteer Jam material. A few years ago he was re-releasing them on disc. This is one of my favorite cuts, Willie and Toy:

If you don't have Papa John Creach's first album, look for it, he's a lot of fun.

@porkchopbob That is all great stuff!! Willie sounds sensational. 

ABB did two shows in 1986 without an official bass player. Second one was for Bill Graham in October in New York. I caught both as and it was great to see Jaimoe was back even if for two shows. 

I remember there was a Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam motion picture released in 1975 and Dickey did Sweet Mama but no slide. I saw it at a theatre  A version on record was released in 1976. 

@robertdee

that concert film was re-released on dvd: https://www.amazon.com/Volunteer-Jam-Charlie-Daniels-Band/dp/B000R4QER2

you can find a bunch of clips here: https://www.youtube.com/user/VolunteerJamCDB/videos

@porkchopbob Oh well I do want to see it again after all these years. 

Thank you so much for the links etc!! 

@porkchopbob Oh well I do want to see it again after all these years. 

Thank you so much for the links etc!! 

Posted by: @robertdee

@lee Here is about the best LIVE Ramblin' Man I've heard. November 1973. Dickey really stretched it out and the other guys really jam behind him. Especially Chuck, Lamar and Jaimoe!! 

 

I agree. Dickey takes it to the moon and the band is right there with him. 

Well I think that is Charlie Daniels playing a little slide guitar on Sweet Mama. But my recollection was correct. Dickey didn't play slide. 

Dickey did some good country type flat top picking but on Goldie on Mountain Dew. 

Thanks again for the links.