The Allman Brothers Band released Eat a Peach, the band's fourth album, in February, 1972. It contained a combination of studio and live material. Eat A Peach was their second double album, and was the last album to include founding member Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971.
The album name came from something Duane said in an interview shortly before he was killed. When asked what he was doing to help the revolution, Duane replied, "There ain't no revolution, it's evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace." The album's name was originally slated to be The Kind We Grow in Dixie and the artwork for the album showed a peach. Band members were dissatisfied with the name and the image suggested Duane's quote instead.There are no bad songs on Eat a Peach. They're all good, and this one is my favorite. It's their cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's One Way Out. Perfect drums, guitars, bass, voice.
Here's the whole album to play while you're working around the house on this peachy Sunday.
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One of the Allman's best.
That's quite the thing the way whole albums are posted on YouTube.
Didn't he die in the same intersection as a bandmate did though at different times?
FYI: It's sometimes hard to tell Duane Allman's and Dickey Betts' playing apart. Duane plays slide on this one so it's very distinct sounding. On all the rest of Fillmore East recordings, Duane plays in the left channel and Dickey plays in the right channel. This was also how they appeared on stage, if you were facing them in the audience.
Duane had a faster playing style than Dickey Betts did -- more notes per second. Betts was by far the superior song writer though, and it's his originals which most people remember.
There is an excellent biography of Duane Allman out there. I mentioned it link
AJ Lynch said...
Didn't he die in the same intersection as a bandmate did though at different times?
The sites are different but close.
It's kind of macabre, but there is a YouTube video out there describing the locations from a motorcycle's POV: link
I just noticed that Lem changed his masthead again.
The quote was introduced by TTBurnett.
Thanks CL.
Blew a lotta weed to that album in college.
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