The Allman Brothers Band-The Final Note-CD-FLAC-2020-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : The Allman Brothers Band                          
   Album       : The Final Note                                    
    Label       : Allman Brothers Band Records                       
    Genre       : Blues                                              
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2020-10-19                                         
   Quality     : 794 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 295.53 MB                                          
     Time        : 49:23 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/final-note-mr00 
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  1.  Statesboro Blues (Live At Painters Mill Music Fair: 10.17.71)  5:01 
  2.  Trouble No More (Live At Painters Mill Music Fair: 10.17.71)   4:42 
  3.  Don't Keep Me Wondering (Live At Painters Mill Music Fair:     4:02 
      10.17.71)                                                           
  4.  Done Somebody Wrong (Live At Painters Mill Music Fair:         3:36 
      10.17.71)                                                           
  5.  One Way Out (Live At Painters Mill Music Fair: 10.17.71)       5:26 
  6.  In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (Live At Painters Mill Music       6:09 
      Fair: 10.17.71)                                                     
  7.  Hot 'Lanta (Live At Painters Mill Music Fair: 10.17.71)        7:39 
  8.  Whipping Post (Live At Painters Mill Music Fair: 10.17.71)    12:48 
     By 1971, the Allman Brothers Band had released two acclaimed but   
     modest-selling studio albums: their self-titled 1969 debut and     
     1970's Idlewild South. In July, At Fillmore East finally brought   
     them the sales figures and critical recognition they deserved.     
     They wrapped a coast-to-coast tour at Maryland's Painters Mill     
     Music Fair in October. Just 12 days after this show, guitarist     
     Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident; this is his      
     final performance. The Final Note is a strange ABB curio. Its      
     source is a single cassette tape recorded by 18-year-old aspiring  
     radio journalist Sam Idas. He was there to interview Gregg Allman  
     and decided to test his new machine by capturing the band's set    
     from the audience on a 60-minute cassette. It sat until 2014,      
     when a friend inquired about it. After locating it, a cousin made  
     him aware of its historical significance. Idas turned it over to   
     the ABB organization, who cleaned it up as much as possible for    
     release.                                                           
     The band's eight-song performance is deeply satisfying musically.  
     From top to bottom, they leave everything on the stage, with no    
     letup. Guitarists Duane and Dickey Betts had fully developed       
     their seamless interplay, Gregg's singing and playing were         
     expressive and inventive, and the rhythm section -- bassist Berry  
     Oakley and drummers Jaimoe and Butch Trucks -- had created their   
     trademark groove-centric approach. Sonically, this is only a fair  
     bootleg audience recording. There are distortions -- especially    
     in Oakley's bass levels -- and sometimes thin-sounding drums. No   
     matter. Among the highlights is a ferocious reading of             
     "Statesboro Blues" with Gregg testifying as much as singing. The   
     slide work by the guitarists is over the top and tight. "Trouble   
     No More" is a wrangling Southern-fried boogie with killer          
     crescendos. "One Way Out" may be the funkiest reading of the tune  
     in existence. Performed in cut time, Gregg sings like a man        
     possessed, while Dickey's blues fills rage between his lines. The  
     relatively brief, six-minute version of "In Memory of Elizabeth    
     Reed" is a stunner as it moves through snaky blues, modal jazz,    
     and improvisation with guest saxophonist Juicy Carter. Oakley's    
     distorted bass run introduces a 13-minute closing version of       
     "Whipping Post" that offers Gregg's best singing here. He sounds   
     deeply wounded, bewildered, and aggrieved, digging deep for every  
     ounce of emotion. The band's jamming exchanges and tempo shifts    
     are loose and confident, delivered in scorching overdrive.         
     Gregg's power chords on the Hammond egg on both guitarists. They   
     go after one another, then accent one another's lines, entwining   
     until the end. The stage dialogue is funny and pertinent, as it    
     laments the band's brief allotment of playing time and/or          
     jestingly chides audience members for being on drugs. The booklet  
     contains rare photographs and a historical liner essay from John   
     P. Lynskey. If you can forgive the somewhat dodgy sound, The       
     Final Note is an essential addition to ABB lore and captures the   
     band at their kinetic best.                                        

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