Where It All Begins by The Allman Brothers Band (Vinyl, 1994)

Music on Vinyl

8719262010215

6050192639

1994

Vinyl

Rock

LP

Hard Rock

The Allman Brothers Band

Where It All Begins

Rolling Stone (7/14/94, p.104) - 3 Stars - Good - "...Twin leads, two drummers, an impossibly soulful vocalist--no American band ever emerged with the sheer power of the Allmans..." Q (10/94, p.105) - 3 Stars - Good - "...an outfit capable of turning out lively, fresh sounding Southern boogie..."

The Allman Brothers Band: Gregg Allman (vocals, piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Dickey Betts (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); Warren Haynes (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Allen Woody (bass, fretless & 6-string bass, background vocals); Butch Trucks, Jaimoe (drums, percussion, background vocals); Marc Quinones (congas, percussion). Recorded at BR Ranch Studios, Jupiter, Florida. This live-in-the-studio set isn't the Allman's best album of the '90s--that honor goes to the groundbreaking SEVEN TURNS--but it is a thoroughly solid effort with some inspired moments that play off the band's traditional strengths. Among the highpoints: "No One to Run With," which plays its all-my-rowdy-friends-have-settled-down theme against a ferocious Bo Diddley beat; the title song, which features the most inspired dual-guitar work on the album; and "What's Done is Done," a straight-ahead blues shuffle (harking back to the band's first album) featuring one of Gregg Allman's most assured vocals.

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