0193. The Allman Brothers Band
At Fillmore East
There is a special kind of magic with songs that stretch over a whole side of vinyl and this live album's got two of them, so I'm quite happy. Since it's a double album (and live in concert to boot) they've also managed to edge in five more songs, starting with blues and working their way into a heavy, jazz-infused jam-session towards the later half of the seventy-six minutes.
There's hints of both Hendrix and Santana in the thirteen-minute track In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed and the closing (twenty-three minute long) Whipping Boy has a portion of Frère Jaques [fact check: and apparently also another Hendrix-quote from his solo in Stop]. Doing everything with their timeslot that that Emerson, Lake & Palmer didn't do, this is both very playful and immensely enjoyable.
