At Fillmore East

chronology
At Fillmore East
Live album by The Allman Brothers Band
Publication ; (s)	1971
Label (s)	Capricorn Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Southern rock , blues rock , jazz rock
Title (number)	7th
running time	76m26s
occupation	Duane Allman : lead and slide guitar ; Gregg Allman : organ , piano , vocals ; Dickey Betts : lead guitar; Berry Oakley : electric bass ; Jai Johanny Johanson : drums , congas , timbales ; Butch Trucks : drums, timpani ; ; Guest musician: Thom Doucette, harmonica ;
production	Tom Dowd

At Fillmore East is a double - live album of the Allman Brothers Band , which was published 1971st The recording marked the band's breakthrough and is still one of their best-selling albums today. It is widely regarded as one of the most significant live recordings in rock music history.

meaning

The album was recorded at the Fillmore East Club in New York City on March 12th and 13th, 1971. The music is a mix of blues , southern rock and jazz .

It reached position 13 on the Billboard Albums Chart.

In 2003, the music broadcaster VH1 placed At Fillmore East at number 59 on the Greatest Albums of All Time . The Rolling Stone magazine called the album in the same year at position 49 of the list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .

In 1992 the pieces from the album were released again together with the live tracks from the album Eat a Peach and a recording of the piece One way out from another Fillmore concert under the title " The Fillmore Concerts ".

At Fillmore East was awarded gold by the RIAA in October 1971 and platinum in August 1992, making it the band's first album to reach platinum status.

Track list

Statesboro Blues ( Blind Willie McTell ) - 4:17
Done Somebody Wrong ( Elmore James , Clarence L. Lewis , Morris Levy ) - 4:33
Stormy Monday ( T-Bone Walker ) - 8:44
You Don't Love Me ( Willie Cobbs ) - 7:15 pm
Hot 'Lanta ( Gregg Allman , Duane Allman , Dickey Betts , Butch Trucks , Berry Oakley , Jai Johanny Johanson ) - 5:17
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Dickey Betts) - 13:04
Whipping Post (Gregg Allman) - 22:56

Individual evidence

↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 68
^ The Fillmore Concerts at AMG.
↑ Gold and platinum awards at RIAA

[1] Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 68

[2] The Fillmore Concerts at AMG.

[3] Gold and platinum awards at RIAA