Another real fine track from Brothers and Sisters. Apparently Gregg Allman wrote words for this as my August 1973 first shipment of Brothers and Sisters lists the song as Early Morning Blues written by Gregg Allman. That was changed to Jelly, Jelly by Trade Martin.
This is excellent play and singing by Gregg and it's excellent by the rest of the band too.
I agree 100%. Great song! I did not however care for the rendition that the last version of the band was playing when they dusted it off somewhere around 2004. It completely lost the feel that the original had. I love the live version on WTWCTODG. Dickey's slide solo that ends the song was REALLY good.
I believe you're thinking of "Wasted Words".
Another real fine track from Brothers and Sisters. Apparently Gregg Allman wrote words for this as my August 1973 first shipment of Brothers and Sisters lists the song as Early Morning Blues written by Gregg Allman. That was changed to Jelly, Jelly by Trade Martin.
This is excellent play and singing by Gregg and it's excellent by the rest of the band too.
I agree 100%. Great song! I did not however care for the rendition that the last version of the band was playing when they dusted it off somewhere around 2004. It completely lost the feel that the original had. I love the live version on WTWCTODG. Dickey's slide solo that ends the song was REALLY good.
I believe you're thinking of "Wasted Words".
Indeed I was thinking of Wasted Words. But Jelly Jelly is a fine tune as well. It stays on my mind for a while after I hear it.
@porkchopbob Yes it seems he was. Did they ever play Jelly, Jelly live? I saw the B&S band several times in 73,74,75 and 76 and don't recall it.
I agree the B&S lineup performed some songs better than the Haynes/Derek lineup.
My favorite lineup is the original.
Then the B&S lineup.
Warren/Derek..Warren/Dickey are probably 4th favorite. One or the other. My 3rd favorite is Jack/Dickey.
I don't think they ever played "Jelly Jelly". They were still playing "Stormy Monday", and "Jelly Jelly" is just different lyrics over "Outskirts of Town". No need for 2 slow blues in the same show.
I actually dig the rearranged "Wasted Words" the Derek/Warren lineup did. A little funkier. But both are cool.
This lineup is just so darn unique. I find it fascinating. Definitely my second favorite lineup. Jelly Jelly is just bad azz.
Alan Paul at the Billtown Blues Festival. Wish I lived closer!
Let not forget Les Dudek. He played 2nd Lead and harmony guitar on Ramblin' Man and acoustic guitar on Jessica. He opens the song Jessica. Les on two songs on Brothers and Sisters!!
And Cowboy's Tommy Talton plays acoustic guitar on Pony Boy!!
Here is Tommy playing Gregg's Dreams.
A little article on Alan Paul's new book!!
https://www.culturesonar.com/brothers-and-sisters-peak-allman-brothers/
Thank you. Book is two weeks away. Very excited to get this thing out there!
@alpaul I'm excited to get my copy. I bought Brothers and Sisters on vinyl the day it came out which was a year and half after Eat A Peach and was surprised it sounded so good. And even more surprised when it shot to number one on the Billboard Top 200 selling albums and remained number one for five weeks.
Ramblin' Man was a top 10 single. I was in doubt the band could survive the deaths of Duane and Berry but wham they were bigger and more popular than ever!
I was surprised to read in recent years Gregg Allman was surprised by Brothers and Sisters too and actually expected the album to not sell that well.
Well let's celebrate!!!
I went to pre-order and they told me I already had!
Sarasota Florida article on Alan Paul's new book!!
It says at the top Dickey Betts, who lives in an exclusive area where homes of other noted people live, wrote all the original songs on Brothers and Sisters but ONE!!
Let's see. Gregg wrote Wasted Words and Come And Go Blues. Yes that is one so that is right!!
Good morning Dickey!! The main reason Brothers and Sisters SOLD SEVEN MILLION COPIES and that is a big reason Dickey lives in a beautiful mansion in a gated community in the Sarasota Florida area!!
Very fond of the author’s work and I just pre-ordered. Just hope it’s not dominated by Cher, Scooter, Carter and drugs. I think most know enough about those topics.
Here it is!! The big grandslam home run, the Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, Titanic, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, Thriller, Hotel California by The Allman Brothers Band.
Over SEVEN MILLION COPIES sold!! No other Allman Brothers album comes close.
B and S was Dickey’s masterpiece for sure and that is what most “fans” know best and was the starting point for many.
The Holy Grail was At Fillmore East, and that hippie band with Duane Allman the high standard.
Nice article by Mr. Paul about how he came to be hooked on the Brothers
https://pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/the-allman-brothers-band-and-me/
Thank you for the article. I enjoyed it. So happy we have Alan Paul's books and interest in the band!!
Earlier this year a friend who is a big Cowboy fan pointed out to me how hot Tommy Talton is on Pony Boy. I knew Tommy is billed as playing acoustic guitar on the track but never really zeroed in on it or even noticed the acoustic guitar.
But after I found it on my headphones...yeah Tommy is really rocking that acoustic guitar and Lamar Williams is right there with him on stand up bass.
According to the insert sleeve Gregg Allman and Jaimoe do not appear on Pony Boy.
Dickey on vocals and resonator guitar. Chuck Leavell on piano. Lamar Williams on up right bass. Butch Trucks on percussion. Tommy Talton on acoustic rhythm guitar.
Also Dickey and Butch are slapping that hambone part on their knees at the end. I use to think it was probably Dickey laughing at the very end but on his blog in the 1990's Butch Trucks said that was him and he chuckled because Dickey switched it around on him.
Also Dickey is playing the same Roland Resonator guitar Duane Allman played on Little Martha on Eat A Peach. Dickey is holding it on the cover of Highway Call. Gregg Allman gave Dickey the guitar after Duane died.
Here is Johnny Stachela playing Duane Allman's Roland Resonator guitar at Dickey's house in Bradenton, Florida.
Just finished reading my copy of Brothers and Sisters the book.
Bought it several days ago at Barnes and Noble. They had two copies on the shelf.
Alan did a fine job putting all this together. Really enjoyed reading the book.
It use to be a curiosity to me as to how Brothers and Sisters sold so many more copies than their other albums. Before Brothers and Sisters the band had two which sold over a million copies and Fillmore East made it across the "million sold" long after it was released. And after Brothers and Sisters except for a compilation album of old tracks from various Capricorn albums released in 1991, the band never came close to selling a million copies on an album and Brothers and Sisters sold over 7 million copies!!!!
Obviously about 5 million people bought Brothers and Sisters who had never bought an Allman Brothers Band album before and 5 million people NEVER bought an Allman Brothers Band album again!!
What was it about this album that enabled it to sell so many copies?? Perhaps the catchy Ramblin' Man being a hit single was a big part of it.
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@robertdee: The huge immediate success of Brothers and Sisters was without a doubt due to the fact that Ramblin' Man was a #2 hit single and also Jessica got TONS, and I mean TONS of airplay when Brothers and Sisters came out. Let's not forget that while radio is pretty much completely dead in 2023, it was HUGE, HUGE, HUGE in launching a record in 1973. And you could not go anywhere without hearing those two tunes for several years, even more than that, after Brothers and Sisters was released. I know you're old enough to remember, so let me ask you: How many times do you ever remember a cut off of Fillmore East being played on the radio? Basically Fillmore East was advertised by word-of-mouth among the more hard core music freaks. Maybe occasionally a progressive station might have spun Statesboro Blues, but even that was rare.
That being said, I'm really getting into Alan Paul's book as well. I'm right where he goes into intimate detail of Gregg's crafting of Laid Back, one of my favorite records of all-time. And it makes sense that Paul would go way into that subject since it was made simultaneously with Brothers and Sisters. According to the book, Johnny Sandlin's production was a huge factor on both records, but particularly Laid Back because he knew exactly the sound that Gregg was striving for. He also got along with all the musicians, and with all those egos, that was certainly not an easy task.
@robslob I agree. The only time I heard At Fillmore East on the radio was a college radio station. In 1972 I often heard Melissa, Blue Sky, Ain't Waisting Time No More and One Way Out on jukeboxes at the bars near that college and other areas where the kinda hippy young people hung out.
The book is excellent. It's so sad to read about the kind of shape Berry Oakley was in after Duane died. Gregg Allman says as horribly crushed as he was about Duane, Berry Oakley was unbelievable. How could a human being have another man so important to his happiness and existence that you can't face the dawn and function with this person now gone? The book reveals that Gregg thought briefly about yelling the band that Oakley should be replaced. Butch Trucks mentioned on his blog that Oakley was so depressed and doped and drunk unable to play he almost called a band meeting to discuss replacing Oakley on bass.
Yes the coverage by Alan Paul on how Laid Back came to be is so interesting for us life long fans. Gregg was confused and that project was going absolutely nowhere at several studios before Johnny Sandlin got involved. Johnny brought the right people into the project and is singlehandedly responsible for its success. And it's an excellent album.
Bringing in a lot of bass players for the Allman Brothers Band and how Larmar Williams got the job and didn't even know the material but won the job by just shear talent is exciting to read too.
Yes you are right about Brothers and Sisters. The 5 million who bought Brothers and Sisters and never bought another Allman Brothers Band album, bought Brothers and Sisters because of Ramblin' Man and Jessica. NOT because they were Allman Brothers fans.
Unrelated to the book, but I actually remember hearing the At Fillmore East version of Whipping Post being played unedited on the one local FM rock station in maybe the later half of the 1980's. But it didn't happen a lot
@jack_frost No it didn't. Years later the two classic rock stations I can pick up would play Statesboro Blues occasionally. I heard the AFE version of Liz Reed on deep cuts one weekend.
I'm enjoying the book! There is a hell of a lot in Alan's book about the Grateful Dead. And how Dickey was so influenced by Jerry Garcia that by 1973 Dickey had the road crew work with the Dead's to get his rig to sound like Jerry's! They even had Alembic to make Dickey a guitar with RICHARD BETTS inlays on the neck. But Dickey only played it a few times before going back to a Les Paul.
Here is the Brothers and Sisters band SMOKING HOT with Chuck Leavell all over this thing. What a musician Chuck was and still is!! Lamar Williams' bass is cooking too.
Dickey Betts COVER in Nashville four years ago.
This young man has watched Dickey before!!! ( got the wrong guitar though)
