The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
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Free Music Notes for Eat a Peach
Free Music Review: Legendary
Hit: 5 Stars
The greatest American band at their peak-new studio recordings and the last sessions with Duane.More great Fillmore East performances make this one of the all-time great albums."Melissa" alone makes it worth owning.Free Music Review: Really good. Occationally excellent
Hit: 4 Stars
A tribute to the late Duane Allman, "Eat A Peach" was originally conceived as a double LP, gathering three live cuts from the Fillmore sessions, and a round of studio tracks recorded before older Allman brother Duane's tragic death in a 1971 motorcycle accident.
Three of these nine songs are instrumentals; "Little Martha" is a fine little acoustic number, but the nine-minute "Les Brers In A Minor" lacks structure and focus, and the sprawling 33-minute "Mountain Jam" may feature a lot of great guitar playing, but it may not be one you'll want to sit through every time you listen to the album.
The "regular" songs are terrific, however. The lovely semi-acoustic folk ballad "Melissa" is one of the Allmans' most mellow and charming songs, and they perform great, punchy live covers of "One Way Out" and "Trouble No More". The fidelity is excellent as well.
The studio material is highlighted by a couple of fine originals, particularly "Stand Back" and the classic concert favorite "Ain't Wastin' Time No More", and Gregg Allman's vocal performances are some of his best. Also, Dickey Betts, who would later emerge as the leader and main songwriter of the band, is finding is songwriting voice here, contributing the nice, country-ish "Blue Sky".
All in all, "Eat A Peach" is a worthy tribute to Duane Allman, and one of the group's most highly rated 70s efforts.
Free Music Review: Prime Time
Hit: 5 Stars
Truly an Allman Brothers record where the band is at peak performance. Yes there are only nine songs on this puppy including the 34 minute Mountain Jam. However, the instrumental touches are truly grade A. What fabulous drum solos on One Way Out, Mountain Jam, and Les Bres In A Minor. The guitar duels between Dickey Betts and Duane Allman are legendary. Many many highlights on this record. Blue Sky is a such a joful tune with Dickey Betts' voice shing strong. One Way Out is a super blues jam featuring classic blue wailing by Greg and the band belnding their instruments in full harmony. Mellisa is such a pretty tune and Les Bres In A Minor is super creative.
Yes Mountain Jam can be a little long. However, the Allmans put in so many creative and driving touches that it has many captivating moments in spite of its length. I realize that you have to be in the mood for something so long.
Overall, I have to round this CD to the full five stars. The band is in top form and everyone of the recorded songs has at least some appeal with several being outstanding works of music.
Free Music Review: The greatest album ever recorded
Hit: 5 Stars
Imagine the pressure of having to complete an album without your group's leader- the one who held it all together, the linchpin of all of the sessions. 99.9 percent of all groups would falter, fade away and never be heard from again if what happened to the ABB on 29 October 1971 (and sadly again on 11 November 1972) happened to them. No. Not the Brothers. Had Duane lived, I'm sure that the album would have been without the "Fillmore, Pt. II" material, but to have it there is having a great piece of live music.
"Blue Sky", "Stand Back, "Little Martha", especially "Little Martha" are all 5-star tracks by a group that didn't see what was just around the corner. "Ain't Wastin' Time No More", "Les Brers In A Minor" and "Melissa" are all loving tributes to the spirit one young man from the South had.
Some might say, most might say that "Eat A Peach" has its problems, its weak points and so on, but not me. "Eat A Peach" is the greatest album ever recorded. Any CD collection without it is incomplete.
Free Music Review: one of the great albums of the 70s, by any band
Hit: 5 Stars
What makes Eat a Peach so hip is that it blends the Allmans' blues-based jam band thing with 70s drug trip psychedelia, without either getting the way of the other. The Allmans pull it off better than Zeppelin or Floyd or the Dead ever did.Several tracks here come from the Fillmore shows and are straight-ahead blues. Gregg's tunes make for the more psychedilic stuff here, but even they never get far from the blues and especially on Mountain Jam you hear them both together.
Since the Fillmore Concerts are an idealized virtual live show, Peach has got to be the best Allman Brothers album qua album.