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Duane Allman - An Anthology

Artist: Duane Allman

Title Of Album: An Anthology

Year Of Release: 1972

Label: Polygram Records

Genre: Blues, Southern Rock

Quality: mp3

Bitrate: 320 kbps

Total Time: 00:49:16 + 00:41:27

TrackList

CD1

01 B.B.King Medley - B.B. King 07:06

02 Hey Jude - Wilson Pickett 04:03

03 Road Of Love - Clarence Carter 02:55

04 Goin' Down Slow - Duane Allman 08:46

05 Aretha Franklin - Weight 02:59

06 Games People Play - King Curtis 02:47

07 Shake For Me - John Hammond 02:42

08 Loan Me A Dime - Boz Scaggs 13:01

09 Rollin' Stone - Johnny Jenkins 04:57

CD2

01 Livin' On The Open Road - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends 03:04

02 Down Along The Cove - Johnny Jenkins 03:04

03 Please Be With Me - Cowboy 03:49

04 Mean Old World - Eric Clapton and Duane Allman 03:51

05 Layla - Derek & The Dominoes 07:06

06 Statesboro Blues - The Allman Brothers Band 04:18

07 Don't Keep Me Wondering - The Allman Brothers Band 03:28

08 Standback - The Allman Brothers Band 03:25

09 Dreams - The Allman Brothers Band 07:16

10 Little Martha - The Allman Brothers Band 02:06

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While his recording career only lasted a little more than six years ('66-'71), Duane Allman's playing was heard not only with the Allman Brothers Band, but on a variety of important records by other artists as well. Hence this posthumous 1972 double-album collection, which--besides five Allman Brothers tracks--includes many memorable solos by the distinctive slide guitarist from sessions at the fabled Fame and Muscle Shoals studios. Highlights include soul versions of "Hey Jude" (Wilson Pickett), "The Weight" (Aretha Franklin), and "Games People Play" (King Curtis), as well as the time-stopping "Somebody Loan Me a Dime" (Boz Scaggs) and Derek and the Dominoes' classic, "Layla." --Billy Altman

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Duane Allman was one of the great guitar legends of the 1970s. Tragically he died just before achieving superstardom, and his legend has been somewhat obscured by history. But he has never been forgotten by musicians who worked with him and those who really care about great American music.

He was one of the greatest white blues guitarists of all time--Eric Clapton said Duane was a better guitarist than himself, and Duane taught Eric how to play slide guitar--but unfortunately, there are only two albums where Duane's talent ever showed its full potential: Derek and the Dominoes' LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS (where he often outplayed Clapton himself) and the Allman Brothers Band's AT FILLMORE EAST. By the time those great albums were released, he was already dead of a motorcycle accident.

Fortunately, Duane cut his chops before these immortal recordings by working as a session player for various artists at the fabled Mussel Shoals recording studios. This collection gives us highlights of some of his best work in that era, along with a few choice Allman Brothers cuts.

The collection is for real guitar music fans--he played on so many records with so many artists that the songs tend to swing wildly from style to style. And unfortunately, the sound quality on these recordings is full of hiss and could be cleaned up with modern remastering techniques. Alas, that has yet to be done; this collection is basically a quick remaster of a previous release on vinyl, and doesn't even use up all the available space on CD (which it easily could). More could also be done to group the songs more effectively by style. For these reasons this collection rates only four stars; for musicianship, it deserves 5 stars at least!

Here's hoping that some day someone sees fit to release a set that uses all the possibilities of the CD format and modern remastering techniques to give us a collection that truly shows off Duane Allman's astonishing genius. In the meantime, any true guitar fan needs to hear these recordings and learn more about this man!

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