ABB’s New CD Documents Great Playing with As Much Fire as Finesse
By: Doug Collette For: All About Jazz Skeptics may wonder why there’s any need for another live Allman Brothers album, but they’d no doubt be part of the same group unaware of the miraculous rejuvenation of this seminal Southern rock band over the last few years. One Way Out (Peach/Sanctuary), due out March 23rd in […]
Band of Brothers Still Peakin’ at the Beacon
Band of brothers: After 144 shows, the Allman Brothers Band is still peakin’ at the Beacon By Steve Knopper 19 March 2004, Newsday Copyright 2004, Newsday. All Rights Reserved. Gregg Allman’s voice, on the phone, is a slur. His style is a ramble. He sticks to one topic for about 30 seconds, maximum, then launches […]
Top 10 Cities That Rock
Esquire magazine has compiled a list of Top 10 Cities That Rock. Cities were judged on the quality of music scenes, stores and concert venues: Pittsburgh, PA Denver, CO MinneapoliS, MN Raleigh, NC Gainesville, FL Fresno, CA Cincinnati, OH New Orleans, LA Phoenix/Tempe, AZ San Francisco, CA
Duane’s Mountain of Green
By: Bill Thames Every new event and each person that we meet in our life is filtered through our own unique set of experiences. Like a computer, we compare new people and places to the ones neatly catalogued in our minds, make our assessments and comparisons, and then we neatly file the experience away for […]
Gregg Lands On “Earth Vs. The Radiators – The First 25”
New Orleans’ icons, The Radiators, celebrate their first 25 years with a double CD and DVD release :Earth Vs. The Radiators: The First 25. The CD will be the band’s first release in three years – a double live CD recorded at the world-famous Tipitina’s over the course of the band’s 3-night run January 29,30 […]
ABB Rock Ottawa Documentary
A one-hour documentary entitled “Carnival of the Blues, 10 Days at the Ottawa Bluesfest” will premiere Sunday, February 29th at Tucson’s Roadhouse in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at 7PM. This documentary is a backstage exploration of the role Ottawa has played as a venue to support the blues and international music worldwide. It features performances by […]
Still time to Jam the Vote
Voting for this year’s Jammy awards continues until March 15 at Jammys.com/vote. The Allman Brothers Band is nominated in three categories: Studio Record: “Hittin’ The Note” Best Archival Album: “Atlanta Pop” Song of the Year: “Old Before My Time” Other nominees of interest include: Live Performance of the Year: Gov’t Mule w/ Claypool, Fleck, Landreth,Wooten […]
Babes in Boyland
Muchas peachness to Brother Bill Ector for his loving, hard and patient work in making this archival Hittin’ the Note article available. We love you, Bill! By: Lana Michelizzi For: Hittin’ the Note, Issue 15 (long ago and far away … ) After the “Gospel According to the Allman Brothers Band” appeared in Issue #11 […]
The Allman Brothers Band: The Road Goes on Forever
By: Doug Collette For All About Jazz Feb 17, 2004 In 2003, The Allman Brothers Band effectively completed a rejuvenation of themselves like no other act in rock history. The seminal Southern rock band achieved the profoundly difficult tasks of recapturing both their aesthetic credibility and commercial viability. This, after longs years of enduring internecine […]
Butch Reflects on the Beatles
By Charles Passy 8 February 2004, The Palm Beach Post A glance at the front page of The Palm Beach Post on Sunday, Feb. 9, 1964, reveals a Cold War-era world scarred by global tensions – in Cyprus, Cuba and beyond. And though no mention is made of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy […]