Blue Sky (song)

Blue Sky is the eighth track on the Allman Brothers Band 's Eat a Peach double album from 1972 . Dickey Betts composed it through his Indian friend Sandy "Bluesky" Wabegijig, whom he later married.

Allman Brothers guitarist Duane Allman and Betts take turns playing lead guitar during the song. Allman's solo starts after 1:07 min, followed by Betts' solo from minute 2:37. Sandlin said: “When I was mixing songs like Blue Sky , of course I knew I was hearing the last few things, of everything Duane had ever played, and there was a feeling of beauty and sadness to know it was going to be nothing give him. "(Original:" As I mixed songs like Blue Sky , "I knew, of course, that I was listening to the last things that Duane ever played and there was just such a mix of beauty and sadness, knowing there's not going to be any more from him ... ").

While Duane Allman died before the album Eat a Peach's was released, the band had played the song live several times before the studio version was recorded. Only one of these live performances was recorded. It was during a concert on September 19, 1971 at SUNY Stonybrook in New York . Several bootlegs are circulating from other performances by the band .

Blue Sky was Dickey Betts' debut as the lead singer for the Allman Brothers Band. He had previously composed only two songs for the band's second album, Idlewild South , Revival , the first track on the album, on which Gregg Allman was lead singer, and the instrumental In Memory of Elizabeth Reed .

Blue Sky has been covered several times, the best known being the version by Joan Baez on her Diamonds & Rust album from 1975 and the later single.

Two recordings by Blue Sky were performed in 2012, an Allman Brothers recording from the SUNY Stony Brook / Eat a Peach original (with Warren Haynes as lead singer, while Gregg Allman took over in between), and an arrangement that was made between 1973 and 2001, played by Dickey Betts and his band Great Southern .

Web links

• Blue Sky at Allmusic (English)
• Review of the album in Rolling Stone

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alan Paul, One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band, St. Martin's Press, 2014, English, ISBN 978-1-250-04049-7