One Way Out

Artist: The Allman Brothers Band
Label: Sanctuary Records
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 060768468221
EAN: 0060768468221
ASIN: B0001JXOUI

Release Date: 2004-03-23

One Way Out

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Tracks:

STATESBORO BLUES
DON'T KEEP ME WONDERING
MIDNIGHT RIDER
ROCKIN' HORSE
DESDEMONA
TROUBLE NO MORE
WASTED WORDS
GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL
INSTRUMENTAL ILLNESS
AIN'T WASTIN' TIME NO MORE - Gregg Allman
COME & GO BLUES - Gregg Allman
WOMAN ACROSS THE RIVER -
OLD BEFORE MY TIME -
EVERY HUNGRY WOMAN - Gregg Allman
HIGH COST OF LOW LIVING -
WORRIED DOWN WITH THE BLUES -
DREAMS - Gregg Allman
WHIPPIN' POST - Gregg Allman

Tracks:

Ain't Wastin' Time No More
Come & Go Blues
Woman Across The River
Old Before My Time
Every Hungry Women
High Cost Of Living
Worried Down With The Blues
Dreams
Whippin' Post

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Hittin' the Note
An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: 2nd Set
An Evening With The Allman Brothers Band
Live at Ludlow Garage 1970
Seven Turns

Customer Reviews:

RICK SHAQ GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "AMEN TO THE ALLMAN BROTHERS LIVE PERFORMANCE!".......2007-02-03

This is a good, solid rounded, live performance by the Allman Brothers. They perform a wide variety of music from their vast repertoire, even including some jazz like pieces, interspersed, with their normal southern rock blues. (I would have enjoyed more blues). This is a double CD, but one "heads up" to experienced Allman fans, a lot of these songs, are big pieces of prior Allman releases, so check your personal catalog, before purchasing, if your hopes are new songs.

Double CD of the 2003 Beacon Theatre shows. Get the DVD too........2006-10-25

The double-CD One Way out is a great example of the latter day Allman Brothers Band, playing live improvisational blues/rock/jazz "guitar music" at its brilliant best, accompanied by a trademark freight-train rhythm section and woven with the glorious tone of a Hammond B3.

There is a DVD of these 2003 Beacon Theatre shows and some reviewers have already pointed out that there are some differences in track listings/performances between the DVD and this CD.

The highlight on this CD for me, is a stellar version of Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, not appearing on the DVD. I've never been all that keen on interpretations of that song by The Yardbirds or Johnny Winter. But this version is such a wonderful interpretation; like Cream meets the Band of Gypsies in the delta.

I read somewhere that Warren Haynes is listed in the top 20 guitarists in the world today. I'd have him in the top 10. A super player (and decent singer) and a throw-back to the great players of the 60's & 70's. Just born too late. And drummer Butch Truck's nephew, Derek, is no slouch on guitar either! His slide work in particular is masterful. Derek is currently touring with Eric Clapton and one would assume performing the slide-work on Layla, which was originally performed by the great Duane Allman.

I like the way the CD liner notes indicate that Derek's guitar is in the left channel and Warren's is in the right channel. I like to know stuff like that. Similarly, Jaimoe's drums are in the left channel and Butch's in the right.

There are a couple of negatives from time to time. You'll need to be forgiving of Gregg's voice, which is not what it once was. Also, the opening version of Statesboro Blues, is kind of soggy and disappointing compared to the famous Live at Fillmore East version; but listen to them stretch out on the lengthy Instrumental Illness and you'll be stunned by the musical talent in this band.

I highly recommend that you buy this CD as well as the DVD of the same Beacon Theatre shows.

better than the original band?.......2006-07-07

Well, no. The current Allman Brothers lineup can't be said to outdo the original band. But the performances and the new material recorded here by the current ABB are so fantastic that it seriously raises the question. I do think today's Allmans are as good as Duane's band was, and this disk is to my ears the best demonstration of that fact.

After Duane Allman died in '71, and Berry Oakley in '72, the original band understandably lost more than a bit of the magic that it had in it by the time of the Fillmore East album. And it was exactly at that time in rock history that the old days of the great bands living gig to gig had finally ended: just after the deaths of Duane and Berry, the ABB entered into the age of multi-million dollar stadium concert tours (yes, Elvis and the Beatles had been there before, but it wasn't until the early 70s that the entertainment industry figured out how to make that into the norm). So Gregg alienated himself from the rest of the group, going on a star trip and maintaining an absolutely staggering intake of drugs and alcohol (why is it that Keith Richards gets all the credit for that?), the band's formerly VERY high standards collapsed, and the Brothers broke up by '76. They attempted to reform the band for a few years at around the start of the 80s, but the effort was basically a failure. Then in '89 they tried it again, and musically speaking things worked reasonably well through the 90s (though they probably didn't attain even to half of what the Fillmore East band had been capable of). As the 90s drew to a close, though, a great deal of animosity had developed between Dickey Betts and the other band members. Anyone who saw their shows from those days will remember it: they didn't smile on stage, they seemed stiff and uncomfortable playing with each other, Betts seemed a mean, angry taskmaster. And so, in a real heartbreaker for Allmans fans, they fired Dickey Betts (not exactly, but de facto that's what happened) in '00. Derek Trucks took his place, rounding out the band's current roster. With Betts gone the Brothers had a workable personal environment again, Gregg had sobered up by that time, and as a result of all this the music started to get steadily better and better, to the point that by around '03, the old band's magic began to shine again. They released Hittin' the Note, the studio album that provides the new material for this live show, in March of that year, and recorded this show during the Beacon run in March of '04.

I still think that the original band, at its very, very best, could still just barely outdo the current Allman Brothers. When a thing is being created for the first time there can be a spark of magic in it that can't be duplicated later, after it's become something to maintain; the work becomes less creative, more derivative. But we're talking about a narrow margin. If Rockin' Horse isn't quite the tune that Blue Sky was, if Instrumental Illness isn't quite the jam that Mountain Jam was back at the Fillmore, then they only just miss that mark. One Way Out is absolutely magnificent, and I will tell you without apology that no other rock band has ever come within shouting distance of it in this kind of music.

transcending brothers.......2006-07-04

Live at Fillmore was recorded before I was born. I've listened to it quite a few times during my Berklee days. I will be the first to admit it's a landmark album, and one that belongs on any music lover's shelf.
But I beg you, get this one as well.
After my first listen i said 'Dicky who?' For the newbie, I am referring to the ousted original member Dicky Betts. Derek Trucks proves to be more than a replacement. I could write 1,000 words on this talent alone. The perfect foil to the hardest working man (no, not James Brown) in music today, Warren Haynes. Do I miss Dicky's songs? of course I do. I so wanted desperately to hear Seven Turns and Ramblin' Man here, but alas I must take the bad with the good. So many gems here, Come and Go Blues, Worried down with the blues, and Desdemona stand out. But honestly I can't find a weak one here. This is Allmans at their prime: post-alcoholism Gregg and post-burnout Dicky. This is one of the few occasions where a band gets better with every year, like a fine wine. Get it and bask in some of the glory that the Beacon in NYC sees every March.

Another Live Allman Brothers Album.......2006-06-10

"One Way Out" is one of many live albums released by the Allman Brothers over the past thirty five years or so and it proves that the band still has what it takes to make a solid live recording. This double disk set captures the band live in a familiar setting- New York's Beacon Theater, a locale where the Allman Brothers have played countless times.

The music contained on this live set is similar to what you hear when you see the Allman Brothers perform in person. Similar, because it includes only a few well-known, classic tunes mixed together with many songs that will not likely be recognized by most listeners. I have seen the Allman Brothers in concert more times than any other band and their song list follows the same formula every time. They always play at least a few popular songs, but they never attempt to play all or even most of their popular tunes at any one show. They keep the audience anticipating which popular songs will be played and they fill the rest of the show with songs that are good, but less well- known. The same formula is followed on One Way Out. It offers classics like Statesboro Blues, Midnight Rider, Trouble no More, Dreams, and Whipping Post, combined together with thirteen other songs that many listeners will not recognize.

The production on this album is solid and the music is crisp and clean. You cannot hear much noise from the audience at all except between tunes and even then, the contributions from the audience are minimal. There isn't much verbal input from Gregg Allman and Company either. Except for the occasional "How are you doin'?" or "Thank You", Allman doesn't say much at all, preferring instead to let the music speak for itself.

One Way Out offers a lengthy amount of music. Eighteen tracks may not seem like a number so great that it would warrant two disks. But this is the Allman Brothers, and if you have seen them live then you know that eighteen songs for them is like thirty- six for most other artists in terms of total time. Adding everything together, there is almost 149 minutes of music in this set- nearly 2.5 hours or roughly 8.25 minutes per song. Looking at the lengths of each track, Midnight Rider is the shortest, clocking in at 3:16 and Instrumental Illness is the longest, at 16:42. Five of the songs are more than ten minutes in length. These longer songs offer many minutes of instrumentals and this may or may not be to everyone's liking.

Is there anything negative to say about One Way Out? I can only think of one small criticism: The similar sound between many of the tunes. The Allman Brothers like to keep the music simple most of the time, with only guitars, bass, keyboard, and drums supplying the sound. There are a couple of songs on this set with congas and various percussion instruments but there is no brass, no harmonica, or anything else. This is why several of the songs, like Come and Go Blues, Woman Across the River, and Rockin' Horse are difficult to tell apart. Even someone like myself, who has seen the Allman Brothers in concert many times, would have difficulty naming the tune if a small segment (say, 20 seconds or so) was played from any of these similar- sounding songs.

Overall, "One Way Out" is still a solid live offering from the Allman Brothers. It offers some classic Allman Brothers tunes combined with some lesser known material for a listening experience that is very much what one would expect who has seen the band perform live. Some songs sound very similar to each other but the slick production and the bluesy rock and roll make One Way Out an enjoyable live set.

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