Has anyone heard this? I only have heard one song so far. A complete review would be nice, thanks
I've spun it a couple times, I dig it but nothing jumping out at me yet. But that's been case with most of TTB's studio albums for me. Let Me Get By and I Am the Moon are the only ones I immediately got really into, and I'm saying that as a big fan of the band. Definitely better heard live in person.
@porkchopbob I Am The Moon is the TTB album I like the best by far. Played it often for months especially in the car.
I don't have the latest release yet.
David Gilmore's 1961 black Fender Stratocaster recently sold at Christies in New York for $14, 550.00 dollars. But what didn't get on CBS, NBC etc when I was watching was Jerry Garcia's "Tiger" a custom electric guitar built especially for Jerry by Alembic guitars and basses was also auctioned off and sold for over $11 million dollars.
After the sale the Tiger guitar was taken to the Beacon Theatre where Derek and Susan played it on stage.
Derek said it was hard to play and Susan agreed and said when he played it on another song she immediately realized it was one of those guitars which wanted to be played a certain way and you just had to go that way with it.
I'm not sure what she meant but I'm sure she had a point.
Spun it twice now
Good not great
Some really solid tracks w/ great potential live and a couple that stretch the boundaries of what I've come to know TTB to be, which is cool
The rest are kind of throw aways, imo
If Mattison ever decided to be out front and do his own thing, this band would suffer. He writes over half the album --- most of the good tunes are his --- yet doesn't lead sing one of them.
Secret weapon
Derek playing a V? OMG! End of Days ahead?
I haven't heard the album in its entirety yet. I heard a couple of tracks on one of the satellite stations in my wife's car. What I've heard seems like a slight departure or bending in direction. This is not a complaint - just a detection on my part. The tunes that I heard came packaged in an interview with Derek and Susan. Susan described a couple (maybe just one?) of Mike's tunes as "a reflection of Mike's "Punk Rock" side". She iterated "punk" several times.
Are the TTB altering their sound/approach to appease a newer generation of music fans? In my lifetime I've seen a lot of bands do this. Even true artists have to eat. Artists sometimes change approach just to evolve with current times and trends. Probably inevitable. Remember the Arista years for the ABB? (Some of) that stuff had its merits, but it didn't accurately resemble the traditional sound and approach that the fan base had come to know.
Are the TTB altering their sound/approach to appease a newer generation of music fans?
The band is definitely trying to reach more ears and freshen things up. They have a new Producer for this album, Mike Elizondo, who has a successful track record of producing popular artists. They also recently signed with a new management company that is definitely an effort to get more exposure. When you think about it, the band has been around for 16 years now and Derek and Susan have always wanted to keep things fresh and growing. Seems like they felt they hit a ceiling where they were and in order to keep going they had to do something different.
@islalala Mike just released an album and has been touring with his own band the past couple months, Trash Magic. He seems pretty content to me.
@rusty When the Allman Brothers signed with Arista they found out what it was like being under a meddling and demanding label owner.
Clive Davis had just released two albums by Dickey Betts and Great Southern which sold poorly, especially Atlanta's Burning Down which didn't sell 60,000 copies. Clive had disco and other groups selling over a million copies.
Back at Capricorn the Allman Brothers had Enlighten Rogues which sold 900,000 copies but Dickey sued Capricorn and won netting over $1 million in back royalties and Capricorn went bankrupt.
The ABB signed with Arista but Reach For The Sky did not do well selling less than 500,000.
Clive Davis stepped in and assigned then a new producer, John Ryan, and demanded they ditch the cowboy hats and their country tinged style and give him some Doobie Brothers type pop hits so he and they could sell some records!!!
Brothers Of The Road did worse. It barely sold 200,000 copies ( decent for some artists but not the Allman Brothers or Dobbie Brothers) and Clive Davis and the band were very upset.
Gregg and Butch and even Dickey said they felt as if they sold out and went pop when that is not what they and their fan base are. And would not record like that again.
Davis said they would change with the times even more or get shut out of the studio because they owed him another album contractually.
They decided to back the ABB out of the 1980's and go their separate ways.
Gregg and Dickey were shut out of the studio for years afterward. Gregg solo couldn't get a deal and Betts, Hall, Leavell and Trucks couldn't get a deal either.
During this period I was actually seeing Gregg and Dickey playing bars with small dance floors to crowds of 300 people.
It was fun seeing them in such small rooms but shocking at the same time.
They were back to Hourglass, Allman Joys and The Second Coming venues. Back close to being on the bottom.
I think that it's their best studio effort. But I'd
still only give it a 7/10 rating.
"...They were back to Hourglass, Allman Joys and The Second Coming venues. Back close to being on the bottom.
Or, Back to Where It All Begins! 😉
@porkchopbob Still waitin' for that Susan - Harry Stiles coop! 😉
If the TTB were to open for BTS ... I wonder if they'd get booed off the stage a la Hendrix/Monkees? 😉
@rusty Yes that is true. Good call Rusty. " Back Where It All Begins".
It would have been nice if Dickey had written that song in 1980 or so or 1984.
Betts, Hall, Leavell and Trucks were playing theatres and larger clubs after 1982 and Gregg Allman with the Toler Brothers were too. But by late 1984, 1985 and 1986 Gregg and Dickey separately and together in 1986, were playing small bars and nightclubs and I saw them in several. One place the stage was so small Dickey and his bass player had to stand down on the edge of the dance floor. People dancing on that side could touch Dickey if they wanted.
It was unbelievable to me for Gregg and Dickey to be back where it all began as it were.
For me being a big fan since 1970, it was almost as shocking as it would be to see Eric Clapton or Jeff Beck playing in such a small dive.
But things began to turn around finally for Gregg when Epic signed him and I'm No Angel came out. That album sold well and went gold. Gregg was back playing larger venues.
Then in 1989 when the Allman Brothers Band reformed for a 45 show tour to support the Dreams box set, they were back drawing several thousand people. Almost filling up a coliseum. It must have been a relief for Gregg and Dickey and exciting for Butch and Jaimoe to see the Allman Brothers back and in better shape when they ducked out in 1982.
Dickey on a Charlotte radio station in 1990 promoting the Seven Turns album stated unlike Eric Clapton who could change colors and say relevant during the disco and dance/pop era, they just couldn't do that. They tried with their last album and they ended up embarrassing themselves.
Dickey said Stevie Ray Vaughn and Bonnie Raitt got popular and made blues based music cool again and when they went out to support the Dreams box set the crowds were back and with their new members, the band was back to sounding close to how it did when Duane and Berry were in the band.
After 2000 AD Dickey was back in the clubs somewhat but his bass player in 2004 told me Dickey was somewhat irritated to be kinda back to square one once again but for me not to worry. That Dickey was loaded financially with a big mansion and he is a multi millionaire.
I found an arial shot of Dickey's house in Florida and indeed it was a big fancy house with a guest house ( it became known as Palmetto Motel..Gregg Allman lived in it briefly), swimming pool, tennis court, boat and boat dock.
I assume Donna Betts is still living in it. Dickey's 40 guitars which includes several Les Pauls and his amps mostly went to his son.
I hoped Derek Trucks would get Dickey's Regal resonator guitar. But I haven't heard anything. Gregg gave Dickey the Regal and he used it on Pony Boy on Brothers and Sisters and is pictured with it on Highway Call.
It was Duane Allman's guitar before Gregg gave it to Dickey and Duane used it on Little Martha.
To tie this to this TTB thread, Derek Trucks would be the right guy to inherit that Regal guitar since Duane Betts as far as I know doesn't play slide.
Well Duane Allman didn't play it with a slide on Little Martha but I've seen pictures of Duane Allman with it and he has a slide.
Here's Derek "breakin' in" Jerry's guitar:
