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The Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Don't Want You No More 2:25
  2. It's Not My Cross To Bear 4:57
  3. Black Hearted Woman 5:17
  4. Trouble No More 3:49
  5. Every Hungry Woman 4:18
  6. Dreams 7:18
  7. Whipping Post 5:20

Notes


This might be the best debut album ever delivered by an American blues band, a bold, powerful, hard-edged, soulful essay in electric blues with a native Southern ambience. Some lingering elements of the psychedelic era then drawing to a close can be found in "Dreams," along with the template for the group's on-stage workouts with "Whipping Post," and a solid cover of Muddy Waters' "Trouble No More." There isn't a bad song here, and only the fact that the group did even better the next time out keeps this from getting the highest possible rating.