The Allman Brothers Band

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The Allman Brothers Band
The Allman Brothers (concert 2010)
The Allman Brothers (concert 2010)
General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1969
resolution 2014
Website www.allmanbrothersband.com
Founding members
Gregg Allman († 2017)
Berry Oakley (until † 1972)
guitar
 Duane Allman (until † 1971)
Guitar, vocals
 Dickey Betts (until 2000)
Butch Trucks († 2017)
Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (until 1980)
Last occupation
Vocals, keyboard, guitar
 Gregg Allman
Oteil Burbridge (from 1997)
guitar
 Derek Trucks (from 1999)
Guitar, vocals
 Warren Haynes (1989–1997; from 2000)
Drums
 Butch trucks
Drums
 Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (from 1989)
Marc Quinones (from 1991)
former members
Keyboard
 Chuck Leavell (1972-1976)
bass
 Lamar Williams (1972-1976; † 1983)
guitar
 Dan Toler (1978–1982; † 2013)
bass
 David "Rook" Goldflies (1978–1982)
Drums
 David Toler (1980–1982; † 2011)
Keyboard
 Mike Lawler (1980-1982)
bass
 Allen Woody (1989–1997; † 2000)
Keyboard
 Johnny Neel (1989–1990)
guitar
 Jack Pearson (1997-1999)

The Allman Brothers Band was a rock band from Macon , Georgia , in the south of the United States . They were the first and also one of the most important bands of Southern Rock and had their greatest success in the early 1970s.

history

Founded in 1969, the band originally consisted of Duane Allman ( guitar ), Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards ), Dickey Betts (guitar), Berry Oakley ( bass ), Butch Trucks ( drums ) and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson (drums, percussion ). The actual Allman brothers, Duane and Gregg, previously played in various groups, including the Escorts , the Allman Joys and, most recently, Hour Glass . When Hour Glass lost their recording deal, Duane formed the Allman Brothers Band.

In 1969 they released their critically acclaimed but neglected first album, The Allman Brothers Band . The second album Idlewild South (1970) was already a respectable success. The third album At Fillmore East (1971) brought the final breakthrough. A little later, Duane Allman died as a result of a motorcycle accident.

The band finished the album Eat a Peach, begun with Duane . Chuck Leavell ( piano ) was accepted into the band. After the publication of Eat a Peach , Berry Oakley also died in a motorcycle accident not far from where Duane was killed.

Lamar Williams replaced Oakley. The next album, Brothers and Sisters , was released in 1973. It contained the band's most famous hits today, Ramblin 'Man and the instrumental piece Jessica .

Due to personal differences, the band drifted apart. Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts started solo careers. Gregg married Cher . Substance abuse has taken its toll. In 1975 the album Win, Lose or Draw was created , in the same year the compilation album The Road Goes On Forever was released. The band ended in May 1976 after Gregg Allman testified in a drug trial against a band member. Leavell, Johanson, and Williams formed Sea Level while Betts was working on his solo career. With Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas a live album was released, which also brought previously unpublished material.

In 1978 the band reunited without Chuck Leavell and Lamar Williams, but with Dan Toler (guitar) as a new member. In 1979 the album Enlightened Rogues came out. But in 1982 the group broke up again.

It wasn't until 1989 that success came back with the reform of the band and with Seven Turns , the first studio album in nine years. Since then, Warren Haynes has been the group's guitarist; he was introduced by Dickey Betts and had previously been a member of his Dickey Betts band.

In 1995 the Allman Brothers Band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .

In 2000 the group split from founding member Dickey Betts. Since that time Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes, who was not part of the band for a short time, have been the two guitarists of the group. This formation with Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Jaimoe, Marc Quinones, Oteil Burbridge, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes became one of the most stable and enduring in the entire history of the band.

In January 2014, Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes decided that they would both leave the band later in the year to put more time and energy into their own groups. Gregg Allman then announced that the Allman Brothers Band was over and that he would also pursue his solo project Gregg Allman and Friends .

Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman - who were the only members of all of the band's lineups - died a few months apart in 2017.

occupation

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE CH CH UK UK US US
1970 The Allman Brothers Band - - - US188 (5 weeks)
US
Idlewild South - - - US38 (22 weeks)
US
1971 At Fillmore East - - - US13
platinum
platinum

(47 weeks)US
Recorded live on March 12, 1971 in New York
at 49th place in the Rolling Stone 500 , Grammy Hall of Fame (1999)
1972 Eat a peach - - - US4th
platinum
platinum

(48 weeks)US
Duane & Gregg Allman - - - US129 (8 weeks)
US
originally recorded in 1968
To Anthology
Duane Allman 		- - - US28
gold
gold

(26 weeks)US
1973 Beginnings - - - US25th
gold
gold

(55 weeks)US
Re-release by The Allman Brothers Band and Idlewild South as a double album
Brothers and Sisters DE52 (2 weeks)
DE 		- UK42 (3 weeks)
UK 		US1
platinum
platinum

(56 weeks)US
in DE only in the charts in 2013
Early Allman
Allman Joys 		- - - US171 (8 weeks)
US
originally recorded in 1966
1974 An Anthology, Vol. II
Duane Allman 		- - - US49 (16 weeks)
US
compilation
1975 Win, Lose or Draw - - - US5
gold
gold

(14 weeks)US
The Road Goes On Forever, a Collection of Their Greatest Recordings - - UK54 (1 week)
UK 		US43 (14 weeks)
US
Best of album
1976 Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas - - - US75 (10 weeks)
US
Live album
1979 Enlightened Rogues - - - US9
gold
gold

(24 weeks)US
1980 Reach for the sky - - - US27 (13 weeks)
US
1981 Brothers of the Road - - - US44 (12 weeks)
US
The Best of the Allman Brothers - - - US189
gold
gold

(3 weeks)US
Best of album
1989 Dreams - - - US103
gold
gold

(11 weeks)US
compilation
1990 Seven turns - - - US53 (16 weeks)
US
1991 Shades of Two Worlds - CH37 (1 week)
CH 		- US85 (17 weeks)
US
1992 An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band - First Set - - - US80 (8 weeks)
US
Live album
1994 Where It All Begins - - - US45
gold
gold

(21 weeks)US
1995 An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band - 2nd Set - - - US88 (4 weeks)
US
Live album
2003 Hittin 'the note DE55 (1 week)
DE 		- - US37 (7 weeks)
US
2004 One Way Out: Live at the Beacon Theater - - - US190 (1 week)
US
Live album
2014 Play All Night: Live at the Beacon Theater 1992 - - - US43 (1 week)
US
Live album
The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings DE22 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - US57 (1 week)
US
Live album
2017 A Decade of Hits 1969–1979 - - - US39 (2 weeks)
US
compilation
2020 Trouble No More - 50th Anniversary Collection DE51 (1 week)
DE 		CH57 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / provisional / 2020CH 		- -
compilation

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

More albums

  • 1981: Story of the Allman Brothers
  • 1991: Live at Ludlow Garage 1970 (retrospective)
  • 1992: The Fillmore Concerts (double CD)
  • 1992: Ramblin 'Man
  • 1993: Collection
  • 1994: Best Of: Hell and High Water
  • 1996: Fillmore East Feb '70 (retrospective)
  • 1998: Mycology
  • 1998: Live at Great Woods (DVD,platinumplatinum Platinum)
  • 2000: Peakin 'at the Beacon (live)
  • 2000: 20th Century Masters - The Best of the Allman Brothers Band (goldgold Gold)
  • 2001: The Road Goes On Forever
  • 2001: Madness of the World
  • 2003: The Allman Brothers Band: Live at the Beacon Theater (DVD,platinumplatinum Platinum)
  • 2016: Live from A&R Studios
  • In addition, numerous full concert recordings in the Instant Live series on the band's own label "The Allman Brothers Band Recording Company"

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US
1971 Revival (Love Is Everywhere)
Idlewild South 		US92 (3 weeks)
US
1972 Ain't Wastin 'Time No More
Eat a Peach 		US77 (4 weeks)
US
Melissa
Eat a Peach 		US86 (2 weeks)
US
One Way Out
Eat a Peach 		US86 (4 weeks)
US
Author: Elmore James
1973 Ramblin 'Man
Brothers and Sisters 		US2 (16 weeks)
US
1974 Jessica
Brothers and Sisters 		US65 (6 weeks)
US
Instrumental
Grammy (rock instrumental) for the 1995 live version
1975 Nevertheless,
win, lose or draw 		US67 (3 weeks)
US
Louisiana Lou and Three Card Monty John
Win, Lose or Draw 		US78 (3 weeks)
US
B-side of Nevertheless
1979 Crazy Love
Enlightened Rogues 		US29 (9 weeks)
US
1980 Angeline
Reach for the Sky 		US58 (8 weeks)
US
1981 Straight from the Heart
Brothers of the Road 		US39 (11 weeks)
US

More singles

  • 1969: Black Hearted Woman
  • 1969: Dreams
  • 1969: Whipping Post ( Song That Shaped Rock and Roll / 393rd place in the Rolling Stone 500 )
  • 1979: Can't Take It with You
  • 1980: Mystery Woman
  • 1981: Two Rights
  • 1990: Good Clean Fun
  • 1990: Seven Turns
  • 1990: It Ain't Over Yet
  • 1991: End Of The Line
  • 1994: No One to Run With
  • 1994: Back Where It All Begins
  • 2003: Firing Line

Awards

Remarks

On the LP / CD "Brothers and Sisters", Les Dudek was the second guitarist alongside Dickey Betts . He was also present at a few live performances that ran after the record was released. Les Dudek brought out some records himself, including a. Ghost Town Parade . His guitar playing came very close to Duane Allman's.

Probably the best-known piece by the Allman Brothers, the instrumental piece Jessica , was the theme tune of the BR rock music broadcasts on Zündfunk ( Club 16 , Zündfunk Club ) in the 1970s and early 1980s . The WDR also used it several times as background music and signature melody, e.g. B. for the radio programs Sounds and Schüler make program , both in the 1970s on WDR 2 . The British TV show Top Gear of the BBC has been opening since 2002 , but this is not the original version of the Allman Brothers, but a greatly shortened interpretation of around 20 seconds in length. The piece is played at the beginning of each episode to accompany the opening credits. In the 11th episode of the 6th season, one of the presenters ( James May ) tried to reproduce the Top Gear Tune using engine noises from different engines at different speeds.

literature

  • William Perkins: No Saints, No Saviors. My Years With the Allman Brothers Band . Mercer University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-86554-967-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bibliography section of the 80s at thebighousemuseum.com
  2. ↑ The Gibson Interview: Warren Haynes by Ted Drozdowski at gibson.com
  3. ↑ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Allman Brothers Band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  4. ↑ Announcement at relix.com
  5. ↑ Bibliography section of the 2000s at thebighousemuseum.com
  6. ↑ Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks Leaving Allman Brothers Band by Patrick Doyle at rollingstone.com
  7. ↑ Gregg Allman Says The Allman Brothers Will Stop Touring After 2014 at relix.com
  8. ↑ a b Chart sources: Germany - Switzerland - UK - USA
  9. ↑ a b The Billboard album by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 . / Top Pop Singles 1955-2006 by Joel Whitburn , 11th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-172-1 .
  10. ↑ The Allman Brothers in the gold / platinum database of the RIAA (USA)
  11. ↑ 49. The Allman Brothers Band, 'At Fillmore East' in 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rolling Stone, May 31, 2012
  12. ^ Grammy Hall of Fame , grammy.com, accessed May 27, 2018
  13. ↑ Hittin 'the Note
  14. ↑ a b 500 Songs That Shaped Rock , copy from infoplease, accessed on May 27, 2018
  15. ↑ 393. The Allman Brothers Band, 'Whipping Post' in 500 Greatest Songs of All Time , Rolling Stone, 2010 Edition, accessed May 27, 2018
  16. ↑ 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Rolling Stone , December 2, 2010, accessed August 8, 2017 .

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