Remastered Live At Fillmore East Released
Universal has released the following: Deluxe Edition of The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East Adds Six Additional Live Tracks To Classic 1971 Double Live Album One of the greatest double live albums of all time, The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East has been digitally remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, creating for the […]
Allman Brothers Band Picked for Big Blues Series
Universal has released the following: Most Comprehensive Blues CD Campaign in History Accompanies Landmark TV Series “The Blues” Presented By Martin Scorsese. 5-CD Boxed Set, 7 Soundtrack Albums, Best Of The Blues And 12 Individual Artist Compilations, including the Allman Brothers Band, Set For September Release. “We’re on the brink of something that is going […]
Duane Allman “Transformed the Poetry of Jamming”
NewsWire Reports 8/26/2003 Jimi Hendrix was the greatest guitarist in rock history, according to a list of guitar greats produced by Rolling Stone magazine. Hendrix set his guitars and the rock world alight with his versatile and vigorous performances before his death in 1970 aged 27. He beat Duane Allman – from the Allman Brothers […]
Allman concert to go instantly to CD
http://www.newsobserver.com/features/story/2749222p-2548515c.html Allman concert to go instantly to CD By DAVID MENCONI, Staff Writer Forget the T-shirt, here’s the ultimate impulse buy at a concert: A compact disc recording of a show you just saw, available before you leave the venue. And Raleigh is one of the first cities in the country where it’s being tried. […]
Mountain Jam at Montage
Mountain jam By MIKE LELLO Weekender Correspondent 13 August 2003 The Wilkes-Barre Times Leader (PA) SCRANTON – The Allman Brothers Band have been thrilling audiences for more than 30 years. The Southern jam rockers have a massive back catalog to draw from, and thier summer tours arrive like clockwork every season, as it did August […]
Post-concert CD business gains ground
By: Susan Ault For The Toronto Star 8/12/2003 They’ll probably never replace T-shirts, but live CDs are starting to make headway as the new concert souvenir. Throughout this event-heavy summer, live concerts are being recorded onto discs and sold shortly after the performances. Post-concert CDs are typically two- or three-disc sets that sell for about […]
“Instant Live” an Instant Hit With ABB Fans
By: Joseph Smith For The News & Observer 8/11/2003 Brenda Griffin didn’t mind the wait. Not after a 10-hour car drive from her home in Tallahassee. Not after attending three Allman Brothers Band concerts in as many days — in Atlanta, Charlotte and Raleigh. Griffin was one of the close to 800 fans who stood […]
Gloriously pure Allman Band Band improves with age
By: Jeff Spevak For The Rochester, NY, Democrat & Chronicle 8/3/2003 This is my reward for sitting through Justin Timberlake the night before. If I ever catch myself thinking, — gee, Creed’s really rockin’ tonight, — I’ll go home and put on Live at Fillmore East. The Allman Brothers Band destroyed all pretenders Saturday night […]
Allman Brothers Band Delivers Blistering Rock & Blues
By: Alan K. Stout For The Times Leader 8/03/2003 SCRANTON – It’s appropriate that the latest CD from the Allman Brothers Band is titled “Hittin’ the Note” because that’s exactly what the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers did on Friday night at the Ford Pavilion at Montage Mountain. The Allmans, who have played Montage […]
Allman Brothers Band Soaring
By Michael Parrish, Special to the Tribune. 31 July 2003 Chicago Tribune Copyright 2003, Chicago Tribune. All Rights Reserved. In its 34-year history, the Allman Brothers Band has had 20 different members, with drummer Butch Trucks being the only constant in the lineup. The group has had to reinvent itself repeatedly to adjust to the […]