At Fillmore East

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At Fillmore East is a Southern rock album by 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 the greatest live recording in the history of rock music", in the opinion of Popmatters.com's Chuck Hicks [1] (http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/a/allmanbrothersband-road.html).

Recorded at the Fillmore East music club, the legendary rock venue in New York City, it showcased the band's unique mixture of jazz, classical music, hard rock and blues. "Stormy Monday" was a definitive slow blues which showcased Duane Allman's guitar work, "Whipping Post" became the standard for a long, epic jam that never lost interest (opening in 11/8 time, somewhat unusual territory for a rock band), while the ethereal-to-furious "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", with its dual lead slide guitars, invited comparisons with John Coltrane.

The album was produced by Tom Dowd, who condensed the running time of various songs, even merging more than one performance 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. "Mountain Jam" is based on Donovan's "First There Is A Mountain" and features all of the band's members in extensive solos. This song clearly shows the band playing at its best.

Those songs were later included in their entirety, along with un-cut versions of some, re-edited versions of others, and some previously un-included 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'" and "Drunken Hearted Boy" were now included as well.

2003 saw the release of a two disc version of Live At Filmore East. It compiled all the released versions of the Filmore material, some material from the Duane Allman Anthology and the Dreams box set, and remixed the material with a better soundstage than the 1992 Filmore Concerts.

In 2003 the TV network VH1 named At Fillimore East the 59th greatest album of all time.

Contents

1 Track listings 1.1 Track listing - At Fillmore East 1.2 Track listing - The Fillmore Concerts 1.3 Track listing - At Fillmore East [Deluxe Edition] 2 Personnel 2.1 Personnel - Special Guests 2.2 Personnel - Special Guests (The Fillmore Concerts) 2.3 Personnel - Production (At Fillmore East) 2.4 Personnel - Production (The Fillmore Concerts) 3 External links

Track listings

Track listing - At Fillmore East

1. "Statesboro Blues" (McTell) - 4:17
2. "Done Somebody Wrong" (James/Levy/Lewis) - 4:33
3. "Stormy Monday" (Walker) - 8:44
4. "You Don't Love Me" (Cobbs) - 19:15
5. "Hot 'Lanta" (Berry/Butch/Dicky/Duane/Gregg/Jai Johanny) - 5:17
6. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) - 13:04
7. "Whipping Post" (Allman) - 22:56

Track listing - The Fillmore Concerts

Disc 1

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

Disc 2

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

Track listing - At Fillmore East [Deluxe Edition]

Disc 1

1. "Statesboro Blues" (McTell) - 4:17
2. "Trouble No More" (Morganfield) - 3:43
3. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" - 3:27
4. "Done Somebody Wrong" (Lewis/James/Levy) - 4:33
5. "Stormy Monday" (Walker) - 8:48
6. "One Way Out" (Schorn/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'" - 2:55

Disc 2

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

Personnel

• Duane Allman - Guitar, Slide Guitar
• Gregg Allman - Organ, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals
• Dickey Betts - Guitar, Vocals
• Berry Oakley - Bass, Guitar (Bass)
• Jai Johanny Johanson - Percussion, Conga, Drums, Timbales
• Butch Trucks - Percussion, Drums, Tympani [Timpani]

Personnel - 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")

Personnel - Special Guests (The Fillmore Concerts)

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

Personnel - Production (At Fillmore East)

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

Personnel - 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

External links

• Collected reviews (http://www.superseventies.com/allmanbrothers.html)
• BBC review (http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/classicpop/reviews/allmanbrothers_fillmore.shtml)