Eat a peach

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Eat a peach
Studio album by The Allman Brothers Band

Publication
(s)

February 12, 1972

admission

1971

Label (s) Capricorn Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Blues rock , southern rock

Title (number)

9

running time

70:27

occupation

production

Tom Dowd

chronology
At Fillmore East
(1971) 		Eat a peach Beginnings
(1973)

Eat a Peach is a double album with studio and live recordings by the American Allman Brothers Band . It was released in February 1972 and is the last album with the recently deceased Duane Allman . The album is dedicated to him.

Emergence

With the album At Fillmore East , which was released in July 1971 and reached number 13 in the US charts, the Allman Brothers had their commercial breakthrough. The band had recorded three songs for a next album at Criteria Studios in Miami when Duane Allman died on October 29, 1971 in a motorcycle accident. Among them was Little Martha , the only song in the band that Duane Allman wrote alone. Live recordings from the Fillmore East were also used for Eat a Peach , especially Mountain Jam , the half-hour improvisation on Donovan's There Is a Mountain , as well as three pieces that the band recorded after Duane Allman's death (page 1 of the LP) . The first song on the album, Ain't Wastin 'Time No More , written by Gregg Allman , reflects the defiant continuation after the loss of his brother.

Style and reception

Half of the album is taken up by the instrumental improvisation Mountain Jam , based on Donovan's song , "anchored in solid rock, but also gently swirling in the clouds of jazz-like improvisation". The other two live recordings are cover versions by Elmore James and Muddy Waters .

Tony Glover from Rolling Stone considers the instrumental Les Brers in A Minor to be a masterpiece and praises the ballad Melissa for the strong acoustic guitar and Gregg Allman's restrained vocals.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of allmusic gave the album five out of five possible stars, sees the band at its peak with this album and considers the final instrumental piece Little Martha, played with acoustic guitars, to be proof of Duane Allman's immense talent.

The album itself reached number 4 in the US charts, the released singles Ain't Wastin 'Time No More , Melissa and One Way Out were less successful.

The gatefold cover, which shows a truck with a huge peach on the loading area on the front and a fantastic landscape with mushrooms on the inside, was voted one of the 100 Greatest Album Covers of All Time by Rolling Stone .

Track list

Original album

page 1

  1. Ain't Wastin 'Time No More (Gregg Allman) - 3:40
  2. Les Brers in A Minor (Dickey Betts) - 9:05
  3. Melissa (Gregg Allman / Steve Alaimo ) - 3:50

Page 2

  1. Mountain Jam (Donovan Leitch / Duane Allman / Gregg Allman / Dickey Betts / Jai Johanny Johanson / Berry Oakley / Butch Trucks) - 19:37 - Live

Page 3

  1. One Way Out (Marshall Sehorn / Sonny Boy Williamson / Elmore James ) - 4:58 - Live
  2. Trouble No More ( Muddy Waters ) - 3:28 - Live
  3. Stand Back (Gregg Allman / Berry Oakley) - 3:25 - With Duane Allman
  4. Blue Sky (Dickey Betts) - 5:10 - With Duane Allman
  5. Little Martha (Duane Allman) - 2:08 - With Duane Allman

page 4

  1. Mountain Jam, Cont'd - 15:06 - Live

Mountain Jam and Mountain Jam, Cont'd together make up the fourth track on later CD releases .

Deluxe Edition

In 2006 a Deluxe Edition of Eat a Peach was released as a double CD. The second CD also contains the recording of the complete concert on June 27, 1971 at the Fillmore East. On that day the music theater was finally closed.

  1. Statesboro Blues ( Will McTell ) - 4:28
  2. Don't Keep Me Wonderin ' (Gregg Allman) - 3:46
  3. Done Somebody Wrong (Clarence L. Lewis, Elmore James, Morris Levy) - 3:38
  4. One Way Out (Marshall Sehorn, Elmore James) - 5:08
  5. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Dickey Betts) - 12:51
  6. Midnight Rider (Gregg Allman) - 3:11
  7. Hot 'Lanta (Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson) - 5:51
  8. Whipping Post (Gregg Allman) - 20:06
  9. You Don't Love Me ( Willie Cobbs ) - 17:24

Chart successes

The album reached # 4 on the Billboard 200 , the singles Ain't Wastin 'Time No More # 77, Melissa # 86 and One Way Out also # 86 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The RIAA drew eat a peach shortly after the appearance of gold and platinum in December 1995.

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ At Fillmore East in the US charts on Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ a b c review of the album in Rolling Stone
  3. ↑ Eat a Peach at Allmusic (English)
  4. ↑ Eat a Peach in the US charts at Allmusic (English)
  5. ^ Rolling Stone List
  6. ↑ 1. CD release by discogs
  7. ↑ Deluxe Edition at discogs
  8. ↑ Chart successes at allmusic.com
  9. ↑ Gold and platinum awards at riaa.com