cd’s & downloads If you are still in shock over the announce-
ment that The Allman Brothers Band will cease touring after this year, you are by no means alone. Of course, to be honest, they truly deserve a break. And the upside is there’s enough Allman music from the past 40-plus years to keep us all rockin’ into our golden years. One fine release that all fans will want to obtain is Play All Night: Live at the Beacon Theatre 1992. The album docu- ments The Allman Brothers Band very first run at New York’s Beacon, a venue that was to become their home away from home during yearly residencies that became “family re- unions” for Peach Heads from all around the
globe.Three years after the band reunited for a 20th Anniversary tour, they found them- selves more popular than ever, and when they
kicking off the set with “Statesboro Blues,” and blending the classic Allman songs with tracks from their two powerful post reunion albums, Shades of Two Worlds and Seven Turns - songs like “End of the Line,” which fit the set like a glove, sitting right along side Betts’ “Blue Sky” and the timeless “In Mem- ory of Elizabeth Reed.” Bassist Allen Woody wasted no time showing the fans just how magnificent a bassist he was on classics like “Whipping Post” and “Jessica.” The acoustic mini-set includes Robert Johnson’s “Come On in My Kitchen,” and the deeply spiritual Dickey Betts composition, “Seven Turns.” The Allmans have always had a fierce and devoted following, especially in New York, Play All Night serves as a true reminder that those fans from 1972 had only grown louder and more passionate here some 20 years later, and now 45 years later. The band may be calling it quits, but the road goes on
forever...Col. Bruce Hampton returns with Pharoah’s Kitchen, a 9-track opus that will have Zambie fans grinning like a bunch of stuck possums. Let’s face it - you either get Col. Bruce, or you don’t. And if you don’t? Well, perhaps you should practice the art of astral projection and maybe you can commune, out of body, with some of the muses that surround Bruce. Perhaps they can
returned to New York, the city where they recorded their classic At Fillmore East album, they brought along the producer of that semi- nal recording, Tom Dowd. The twin guitars of Dickey Betts and Warren Haynes came as close to replicating the original sound of Betts and Duane Allman as had ever been achieved,
explain to you just what he is all about. Or better yet, just close your eyes and enjoy the music. “The Dots Go Where I Say They Go” may be my favorite track. Set to a country beat, Col. Bruce speaking/singing/shouting the lyrics - “He stands alone anyway/baking the cookies of discontent/By the heat of the
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