Awesome, really curious to see what they come out of there with considering a lot of what they have been playing at shows was already released on the Macon live album.
Thanks. I'm already excited!
I wonder if it will be a soul covers album?
I wonder if it will be a soul covers album?
Sounds like it, on Scott Sharrards FB page there is a new interview where he talks about the new album, sounds like it is going to be mostly covers again. Scott said they have 2 songs they wrote together and are doing a studio version of love like kerosene.
As a longstanding Gregg fan I gotta say it:
Continuing a 45+ year tradition of re-recording something he already released at least once.
(facepalm)
That said, any new material is more than welcome!
[Edited on 3/7/2016 by WaitinForRain]
Gregg can do so much better than recording covers. Hopefully the album has at least 4-5 original songs on it.
Gregg has barely written/released 5 originals in 20 years, and really not that much more in the last 35 years. That's why I assumed it would be mostly covers. He's still a great interpreter of songs, but the new material has only come in small doses since the very early days of the band.
That said, I'm fine if he sticks to songs previously recorded at Muscle Shoals with the couple of originals added on. I'd love to hear his take on something like "I'd Rather Go Blind", "Getting The Bills (But No Merchandise)" or maybe even "Wild Horses".
I'm hoping for A Change Is Gonna Come.
I'm happy for anything new. Creativity isn't something you can turn on and off. I would rather have an album of some slick covers by Gregg than a bunch of forced mediocre original songs. I'd take "Floating Bridge" over "Silence Ain't Golden" any day of the week.
I'm with the 'any new material is welcome' gang, but what happened to the 'All Songs By Gregg Allman' concept? In my view Gregg's interpretations never miss the mark so I am looking forward to it but 50-50 old & new would be perfect...........
Two rock songs I would love to hear him sing are Tommy Bolin' s "Wild Dogs" and Mick Taylor's "Louisiana." Perfect fits.
I think he has played same stuff for so long it has effed with his desire and ability to write new relevant music. Creativity can honed, but not after you've repeated yourself endlessly for decades. His last real solo gasps were the Bullets and Angel albums and he had co-writers with him for nearly all those tunes.
There was a photo of some arrangements and lyrics and I saw "Blind Bats & Swamps Rats" which is a pretty sweet tune for Gregg to do.
I'd like to see more variation>less predictable setlist but at least the old faves are completely reworked & nothing like the originals -- that's why LCB is so special, he makes them His songs -- GAB makes the old faves its own in same way -- real creative rearrangements
Ok by me no matter what he sings-no better singer alive today.
But,I sure hope tBone isn't producing.
Don Was is producing.
