The Best of the Allman Brothers: Hell & High Water

The Best of the Allman Brothers: Hell & High Water Artist: The Allman Brothers Band
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 078221872423
EAN: 0078221872423
ASIN: B000002VN5


Release Date: 1994-06-28

The Best of the Allman Brothers: Hell & High Water


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Tracks:

  1. Hell & High Water
  2. Mystery Woman
  3. From The Madness of The West
  4. I Got A Right To Be Wrong
  5. Angeline
  6. Famous Last Words
  7. Brothers Of The Road
  8. Leavin
  9. Straight From The Heart
  10. The Judgement
  11. Never Knew How Much (I Needed You)

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Great Transition Album.......2006-03-06

I cannot believe how many bad reviews this album has gotten, when in fact, it's a great transition collection of hits from the golden ABB 70s period to the "comeback late 80s-90s era". Yes of course this collection doesn't have classics like Whippiing Post, Jessica, No Way Out, Melissa, etc. but songs such as "I Got A Right To Be Wrong", "Straight From The Heart", "Never Knew How Much" and "Angeline" makes this album worth the money. If you are a true ABB fan, you have to buy it, end of story. If all you listen to is a 22 minute live version of Whipping Post and Elizabeth Reed, well this album may just "wake you up" and show you the blue sky for once.

2 out of 5 stars Ho-hum.......2004-05-22

Well, you certainly can't accuse the Allman Brothers Band of playing badly, or Gregg Allman of singing poorly. If only they had had some decent material to play and sing, their Arista material, which is summarized on this disc, might actually have been worth listening to.
As it is, virtually all of this material is utterly forgettable, lacking the melodies, the hooks, the riffs and the overall character that made (and occationally still makes) the Allmans such a great band. The songs slip by unnoticed, leaving no lasting impression at all, and it is very hard to believe that this is the same band (albeit in a different incarnation) as the one which put out "The Allman Brothers Band", "Idlewild South", "Eat A Peach", "Brothers And Sisters", "Seven Turns", "Where It All Begins", "Hittin' The Note" and more than half a dozen superb live albums.
Go for any of those instead. ANY of them!

2 out of 5 stars OK country-rock, weak ABB.......2002-06-19

This does sound somewhat like the ABB, but what an inferior product. I generally like it when a band attempts stylistic changes, but the female choruses and horn solos in these efforts just don't ring true. And fiddle?

*Hell & High Water - were they aware that they were borrowing the melody of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?" ? Choruses sound out-of-place, but otherwise the song is OK
*Mystery Woman - more Pop than most ABB songs, but one of the better tunes on the disc
From The Madness Of the West - very derivative of "Jessica", but lacking a real spark, almost sounds like an ABB imitation
*I Got A Right To Wrong - has the ABB sound, the best song on this CD
Angeline - flat arrangement, more worthy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, weak lyrics, good drumming
Famous Last Words - awful background chorus, very bad song
Brothers of the Road - the ABB do The Charlie Daniels Band? Fiddles?
*Leavin' - pretty good, the sound is here starts to sound like their '90s work
Straight From The Heart - awful pop song, sounds like bad Doobie Brothers
*The Judgment - different, not bad, hard country-rock
Never Knew How Much - stoopid background choruses, not enough (any?) band, vapid sax solo, could be improved by a better arrangement

* indicates the songs I consider decent, though none are great

I agree with the assessment that Arista was looking for another Doobie Brothers. It's odd what expectations can do; I would like these songs better on a Marshall Tucker Band or Outlaws disc, but the ABB were capable of so much more. Almost the whole CD sounds like an ABB imitation, the solos are derivative of older - and better - songs, the lyrics are rehashes, the arrangements are often too pop sounding. Some cuts have the characteristic ABB drum sound, guitar scale bridges and vocal growling, but it sounds perfunctory. Being a longtime ABB fanatic, I want to totally hate this CD, but it is listenable - just not inspired. Approaching this as a Country-Rock disc and not a typical ABB disc allows objectivity, but hearing merely OK material from a great band is a let down. I can't say that I'll play it much.

1 out of 5 stars one good song.......2000-04-29

"Angeline". That's it.You can get that on the box set.It has a beat and won't put you to sleep.I don't even recommend this disc to dedicated fans.What happened ?

1 out of 5 stars

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