Gregg Allman Albums Ranked

PorkchopBob · 2021-04-01T23:25:00Z

All right folks, here's my personal ranking or Gregg Allman albums. I'm sure there will be some disagreement. 1. LAID BACK - one of my favorite albums by anyone, it's every bit the masterpiece it's hailed as. 2. GREGG ALLMAN TOUR - the live album always felt like Laid Back Part II to me, they go together. The laid back-style "Dreams" is magic. 3. ONE MORE TRY - a treasure trove of Gregg Allman in progress. The solo acoustic stuff is some of my favorite of Gregg's recordings. 4. LOW COUNTRY BLUES - we finally got to hear Gregg belting out some classic tunes with a barrel-house band backing him up. I'm not sure why this album seems to have fallen out of favor over the past few years. I love the production on it, even if it wasn't Gregg's vision. But Johnny Jenkins didn't like Ton-Ton Macoute and Muddy Waters didn't like Electric Mud and I love both of those albums. 5. BACK TO MACON - a super solid live album featuring Gregg's dream band doing what they did best. 6. SOUTHERN BLOOD - I know, I know, why is this so low on the list? "My Only True Friend" is fantastic, "Song for Adam" is powerful stuff, I love that he chose Johnny Jenkins' "Blind Bats & Swamp Rats". I know it was Gregg's vision, he hand-picked the songs while staring death down, his band in the studio but...the rest of the album sounds so over-produced - the steel guitar feels like it's non-stop. Mostly fantastic, but where Laid Back was melancholy, "Willin'" and "Black Muddy Water" sound a bit sappy. 7. ALL MY FRIENDS - a fantastic tribute with so many amazing interpretations of Gregg's songs, the best of them (Sam Moore, Vince Gill) make up for the country bros. 8. PLAYING UP A STORM - Gregg bent with the times so Storm has your typical 1970s funky keyboard production. Still some great material like the re-arranged "Come & Go Blues" and a couple of Ray Charles and Clarence Carter covers. 9. SEARCHING FOR SIMPLICITY - some of the best studio performances (Jack Pearson!) on a Gregg Allman album. The Gilded Splinters-style "Whipping Post" is one of Gregg's best re-arrangements. There are a few great classic covers like "I've Got News for You" but so many of the songs are pretty weak ("Silence Ain't Golden"). 10. JUST BEFORE THE BULLETS FLY - I'm No Angel was Gregg's comeback, but the follow up is a slightly better album, including the catchy Warren Haynes-penned title track. 11. I'M NO ANGEL - the album that made Gregg relevant again, but it's not a very good album. Thanks to the bland production of the day, the album could have been released by any mid-80s artist, including the novelty song title track. If you wanted to know what it would sound like if Gregg did the soundtrack to Fletch, here you go. 12. ALLMAN & WOMAN | TWO THE HARD WAY - well, it's definitely interesting, but it's every bit the dreck you'd expect it to be.

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@missuny1969 I bought Two The Hard Way in 1977 and yes Gregg and Cher together just didn't work. Kinda like imagining an album by Frank Sinatra and Janice Joplin.

I haven't played my Allman and Woman album in years until earlier today and while some of the songs are good, the album just doesn't work.

I found it worked better if you turned it down low and watched Johnathan Winters at the same time.

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Posted : May 8, 2021 10:39 pm

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