GREATEST Allman Brothers Song from the Duane Allman Years

NOTE: With only NINE choices available (and one for the inevitable "Other"), the poll is weighted toward songs composed by the band.

SO..."Statesboro Blues," "One Way Out," "Trouble No More," "Stormy Monday"...if these are your favorites, they become your "other" selection.

And yeah, Donovan wrote the base song "First There Is A Mountain" that "Mountain Jam" is built on, but he DIDN'T write the half hour of Allman Brothers jamming that followed its opening theme.

For the purposes of this poll, the performance is irrelevant...you are voting for the song, not whether it came from a studio album or a live album.

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Just crank it up.

Just to be iconoclastic, I'll say the instrumental, Jessica, because it sounds like a little girl frolicking in a meadow, and never fails to cheer me up.

I thought it was one of the first ones recorded after he died.

...but I made an Allmans mix CD yesterday, requiring me to get out my copy of Eat A Peach, and the Duane tracks are Trouble No More, Stand Back, Blue Sky, Little Martha, One Way Out, and Mountain Jam.

For some reason I always thought Blue Sky was a post-Duane track too.

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With Melissa being a close second.

I friggin love that song.

Uniquely Allman, short, no extended jams, but clearly an example of songwriting and performance excellence.

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One of those songs that I don't have to be drunk or alone to sing out loud! haha! I just can't help it. :D

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What a scumbag.

I dig the older stuff though especially Dickie singing Rambling Man.

EDIT: That was Greg not Duane, that hooked up with Savannah, right?

EDIT 2: She was apparently 16 when the old bastard took her in.

EDIT 3: Edited the subject line.

...but if I based my listening on the personal lives of the performers, I'd have to toss about 95% of my collection.

Neil Young is, and has been, a hero to me and an extreme musical influence.

But if there's an ounce of truth in his bio, "Shakey," he's also a coward, a prick, and an all-around poor excuse for a human being.

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SERIOUSLY...this book paints a picture of a major league asshole with an ongoing sense of contempt for his audience (especially during the "Tonight's The Night" tour...but don;t take my word for it, read the book).

Doesn't change the music one bit...it's still genius.

Just like Duane was a genius.

Just like Jerry Lee Lewis was a genius, and you know HIS story too.

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and many other Southern states.

But who gives a fuck, right?

No contest in my mind.

Dickey Betts does some pretty nice lead work, but then Duane comes in....smokin'.

I was fortunate enough to see them a couple of times before Duane bought the farm. They really weren't quite the same after that.

it was the first song that got me into the Allman Brothers, when I was in high school. I absolutely loved that song. Then in college, my friends had 'Fillmore East,' and we listened to that all the time.

allmans voice conducted soul the way copper conducts electricity, but the pain and feeling that he wails away with in this song is like no other allman brothers tune i have ever listened to. maybe it's because i have mental link to this song, but it has never failed to move me or inspire me when i listen to it. i consider this song to be there opus.