At Fillmore East

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At Fillmore East
Live album by The Allman Brothers Band
Released	July 1971
Recorded	March 12–March 13, 1971, at Fillmore East, New York City
Genre	Blues-rock Southern rock Jam
Length	76:26
Label	Capricorn Records
Producer(s)	Tom Dowd
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B-) link Q July 1998 Rolling Stone August 2002
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Idlewild South (1970)	At Fillmore East (1971)	Eat a Peach (1972)

At Fillmore East is a blues-rock double live album by The Allman Brothers Band, released in July of 1971 (see 1971 in music). Their breakthrough success, At Fillmore East remains one of the top-selling albums in the band's catalogue, is one of the critical heights of their career, and is generally accepted as one of the greatest live recordings in the history of rock music.^[1] In 2003, the album was ranked number 49 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.^[2]

Contents 1 History 2 Track listing 2.1 At Fillmore East 2.2 The Fillmore Concerts 2.2.1 Disc one 2.2.2 Disc two 2.3 At Fillmore East [Deluxe Edition] 2.3.1 Disc one 2.3.2 Disc two 3 Credits 3.1 Special Guests 3.2 Special Guests (The Fillmore Concerts) 3.3 Production (At Fillmore East) 3.4 Production (The Fillmore Concerts) 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

Recorded at the Fillmore East music club, the legendary rock venue in New York City, on Friday and Saturday March 12, 1971–March 13, 1971, it showcased the band's mixture of blues, Southern rock and jazz. The cover of Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues" which opens the set showcases Duane Allman's legendary slide guitar work in open E Tuning. "Whipping Post" became the standard for a long, epic jam that never lost interest (opening in 11/8 time, unusual territory for a rock band), while the ethereal-to-furious "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", with its harmonized melody, Latin feel and burning drive invited comparisons with John Coltrane (especially Duane's solo-ending pull-offs, a direct nod to the legendary saxophonist).

The album was produced by Tom Dowd, who condensed the running time of various songs, occasionally even merging multiple performances onto one track. At Fillmore East peaked at #13 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.

Several songs recorded during the same set of shows, including "One Way Out", "Trouble No More", and the memorable "Mountain Jam", were later released on Eat a Peach, the latter spanning two sides of the double album.

Those songs were later included in their entirety, along with uncut versions of some, re-edited versions of others, and some previously omitted tracks, on a new release of the Fillmore material entitled The Fillmore Concerts. "Stormy Monday" gained back a harmonica solo, and "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'", "Midnight Rider" and "Drunken Hearted Boy" were now included as well.

2003 saw the release of a two-disc edition of At Fillmore East. It compiled all the released versions of the Fillmore material, some material from the collection Duane Allman: An Anthology and the Dreams box set, and remixed the material with a better soundstage than the 1992 release The Fillmore Concerts.

In 2003 the TV network VH1 named At Fillmore East the 59th greatest album of all time. It was also ranked #49 by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in the same year. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. The song "Whipping Post" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.^[3]

None of the pictures for the cover of the band were actually taken at the Fillmore East. The photographer Jim Marshall took the cover shot at the band´s headquarters in Macon, Georgia.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] At Fillmore East

1. "Statesboro Blues" (Will McTell) – 4:17
2. "Done Somebody Wrong" (Clarence L. Lewis, Bobby Robinson, Elmore James) – 4:33
3. "Stormy Monday" (T. Bone Walker) – 8:44
4. "You Don't Love Me" (Willie Cobbs) – 19:15 (You Don't Love Me is played with many improvised parts, a section of the song is actually Joy To The World)
5. "Hot 'Lanta" (Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson) – 5:17
6. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) – 13:04
7. "Whipping Post" (G. Allman) – 22:56

[edit] The Fillmore Concerts

[edit] Disc one

1. "Statesboro Blues" (Willie McTell) – 4:15
2. "Trouble No More" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:46
3. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (G. Allman) – 3:20
4. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) – 12:59
5. "One Way Out" (Marshall Sehorn, Sonny Boy Williamson, James) – 4:55
6. "Done Somebody Wrong" (Lewis, Levy, James) – 4:11
7. "Stormy Monday" (Walker) – 10:19
8. "You Don't Love Me" (Cobbs) – 19:24

[edit] Disc two

1. "Hot 'Lanta" (D. Allman, G. Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 5:11
2. "Whipping Post" (G. Allman) – 22:37
3. "Mountain Jam" (Donovan Leitch, D. Allman, G. Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 33:47
4. "Drunken Hearted Boy" (Elvin Bishop) – 7:33

[edit] At Fillmore East [Deluxe Edition]

[edit] Disc one

1. "Statesboro Blues" (McTell) – 4:17
2. "Trouble No More" (Morganfield) – 3:43
3. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (G. Allman) – 3:27
4. "Done Somebody Wrong" (James) – 4:33
5. "Stormy Monday" (Walker) – 8:48
6. "One Way Out" (Sehorn, Williamson, James) – 4:56
7. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) – 13:04
8. "You Don't Love Me" (Cobbs) – 19:24
9. "Midnight Rider" (G. Allman) – 2:55

[edit] Disc two

1. "Hot 'Lanta" (D. Allman, G. Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 5:20
2. "Whipping Post" (G. Allman) – 22:53
3. "Mountain Jam" (Leitch, D. Allman, G.Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 33:39
4. "Drunken Hearted Boy" (Bishop) – 7:33

[edit] Credits

• Duane Allman – lead guitar, slide guitar
• Gregg Allman – organ, piano, vocals
• Dickey Betts – guitar, vocals
• Berry Oakley – bass guitar
• Jai Johanny Johanson – drums, congas, timbales
• Butch Trucks – drums, tympani

[edit] Special Guests

• Thom Doucette – Harmonica ("Don't Keep Me Wonderin'", "Done Somebody Wrong", "Stormy Monday" and "You Don't Love Me")
• Randolph "Juicy" Carter – Saxophone ("Hot 'Lanta")

[edit] Special Guests (The Fillmore Concerts)

• Bobby Caldwell – Percussion ("Drunken Hearted Boy")
• Elvin Bishop – Vocals ("Drunken Hearted Boy")
• Steve Miller – Piano ("Drunken Hearted Boy")

[edit] Production (At Fillmore East)

• Tom Dowd – Producer, Liner Notes
• Aaron Baron – Engineer
• Larry Dahlstrom – Engineer
• Dennis M. Drake – Mastering
• Jim Marshall – Photography

[edit] Production (The Fillmore Concerts)

• Tom Dowd – Producer
• Jay Mark – Mixer
• Dan Kincaid – Digital Mastering
• Bill Levenson – Executive Producer
• Kirk West – Associate Producer
• Terri Tierney – Project Coordination
• Richard Bauer – Art Direction
• Jim Marshall – Graphic Concept
• Jimmy Guterman – Liner Notes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Collected reviews
• BBC review