Its something I have been thinking about off and on for a bit . I do remember reading awhile back and I think I found it where his manager, Michael Lehman, spoke about that subject. I am not sure how much extra studio stuff would be laying around,maybe live material? I know its been almost three years since the Laid Back reissue. Hopefully more in the works. I always wanted to hear Gregg just do a real solo thing, just him on guitar and or piano doing his catalog,maybe some covers,originals.
excerpt below.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/posthumous-gregg-allman-album-859051/
Lehman says the fleshed-out Laid Back will be the first of what may be an annual vault release of Allman’s work. (Luckily for Levenson and Lynskey, the master tapes, owned by Universal, were not stored in the West Coast facility where many masters were ruined in a recent fire. Like most of the material originally released on Capricorn Records, then home to the Allmans, the Laid Back masters were locked up in an East Coast facility.) Although Lehman says few original unheard studio recordings have been found in the vaults, plenty of release-worthy live tapes remain, including recordings of his five-night stand at New York’s City Winery in 2015. A comprehensive box set of Allman’s entire career, similar to one recently done on Duane, is also in the planning stages. As far as the long-out-of-print album with Cher, Allman and Woman: Two the Hard Way, Lehman laughs: “It’s all open for discussion.”
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
Gregory and Cher.
I bought this, as I did anything that was Gregg, Duane, Dickey etc, but amazinly considering how famous Cher was, the album failed to make the chart and sold poorly. Guess that is why it's out of print.
When Ramblin'Man was number TWO on the hot 100 singles chart, Cher had number one. Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves I think was the number one single that week in America.
But Brothers and Sisters was NUMBER ONE on the top 200 album chart. Only number one they or Gregg had. And Gregg was caught off guard by Brothers and Sisters. He couldn't get Queen of Hearts on it because of Butch and actually thought Brothers and Sisters wouldn't do that well. Certainly not as well as Eat A Peach and Fillmore East. By the time Laid Back came out, Brothers and Sisters had sold 5 million copies and was number one for five weeks. It was the Allman Brothers "Shake You're Money Maker" or "Cracked Rear View Window". Much bigger sales than anyone expected. The biggest selling album the Allman Brothers had by far. And Laid Back sold 800,000 copies and went Gold. Biggest selling album Gregg ever had. In 1973 Gregg and the others moved a ton of records!!!!
I don't want to knock Cher. She is a very talented and gifted singer and a good actress. But I guess she and Gregg were not a good fit musically. Like Elvis and Ethel Merman or Duane Allman and Dolly Parton putting a band together.
Sometimes odd pairings work out though!! Who would have thought Dean Martin and John Wayne would make a great duo singing outfit. I was very surprised!!
