An Anthology: Duane Allman

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Total Tracks: 19   Total Length: 90:49

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Duane Allman Anthology

diamondwymond

This album is essential to anyone interested in the founder of the Allman Brothers Band, or the dawn of what's come to be called "Southern Rock". This compilation has some real gems in it, but more than that, you can begin to get an idea on the depth and width and diversity of Duane's gifting and talent. My favorites are Livin' On the Open Road, Mean Old World, and Please Be With Me, partly because of their rarity. But your favorites are sure to be different. Goin'Down Slow is one of only two tracks i"ve ever heard Duane sing on. The other is on Anthology 2. I highly recommend both albums for your enriched musical education, karma, and zen.

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What a treat

pennyjeff

I had forgoten about the work Duane did before the 'Brothers' gig . How funit is to listen to 'Loan me a dime" .What a great jam .

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SKY DOG !

wilzo

man he could play, too bad we lost him so young

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Definitive Duane

FranksAmericana

I lost Side 2 of my original LP, and have long missed the acoustic slide of Duane on Please Be with Me. Livin on the Open Road is a cut to get as well. The Derek & The Dominoes and Allman Bro cuts are not to be missed, but like me you may already have these on their mother albums. But this record shines for the unknown Duane on Side 1. Tom Dowd relates the story of the shaggy hippie kid hanging outside of Muscle Shoals studio, who convinces Wilson Pickett to cut Hey Jude with Duane playing slide. From that cut, his studio career is born, and the rest of side one shows his talents behind other great Muscle shoal artists.

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Duane Allman’s greatness was apparent on his recordings with the Allman Brothers, yet there was another side to the superb guitarist. For many years, he was a highly respected session musician, playing on cuts by Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie, and Clarence Carter, among others. By including those session cuts, as well as a sampling of his brief sojourn in Eric Clapton’s Derek and the Dominoes and a few rare solo tracks, along with a number of representative Allman Brothers songs, the double-album Anthology winds up drawing a complete portrait of Allman. He may have recorded plenty of other material worth hearing, but this has the bare essentials for an excellent introduction and retrospective. – Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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