On February 12th, 1972, 54 years ago, the Allman Brothers Band and it's manager and label owner Phil Walden released the band's fourth album Eat A Peach.Â
Eat A Peach was an immediate success charting at number FOUR out of TWO HUNDRED positions on the Billboard album chart and was certified PLATINUM for sales in excess of one million copies. It has sold over 2 million copies to date.Â
Gregg Allman identified Eat A Peach in two interviews in the 2000s as his favorite ABB album and Laid Back as his favorite solo album.Â
Personally I think the album is absolutely among their best and a better album than anything they put out after Brothers and Sisters.Â
Anyone have an ABB new release album they like better than Eat A Peach?Â
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Eat A Peach is my favorite ABB record. Not only that, I happen to think it's simply the greatest rock record ever recorded. Mainly because, it's NOT a rock record. It's a jazz record, it's a country record, it's a blues record, it's a jam band record. Show me another band that has displayed the ability to incorporate that many styles into their sound, while maintaining their stunning and expert musicianship for all of them. Simply put, an astonishing record, by a band at their peak. What a crying shame that their leader passed away while they were making it. Which makes it even that much more astonishing.
