Gregg Allman – Southern Blood (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:24 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Southern Rock, Blues Rock, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © New Rounder
Southern Blood serves as a remarkable final testament from an artist whose contributions have truly shaped rock & roll throughout the past four decades. Allman’s first all-new recording since 2011’s GRAMMY® Award-nominated solo landmark, LOW COUNTRY BLUES, the album is among the most uniquely personal of the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s career, an emotionally expansive collection of songs written by friends and favourite artists including Jackson Browne, Willie Dixon, Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter, Lowell George, and Spooner Oldham & Dan Penn, meant to serve as a salutary farewell to his legion of devoted fans and admirers. Allman collaborated on his closing project with manager and dear friend Michael Lehman and GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Don Was, a longtime acquaintance and staunch supporter committed to helping the rock icon actualize his very specific aspirations.
Allman, well aware his time was short, approached the project with an unambiguously realistic agenda. High atop his list of goals was to capture the sound of the ultimate Gregg Allman Band in full flight, considering them the tightest knit combo of all the line-ups that had backed him over his 40+ year solo career. Despite his ongoing health issues, the Gregg Allman Band had picked up right where the Allman Brothers Band left off in 2015.
“Gregg was very excited to be in the studio,” says Lehman. “He was especially thrilled to be recording this studio album with his solo band – he was so proud of them and loved the sound that they produced together. Gregg felt close to every single one of them. The Gregg Allman Band was like a family or a well oiled machine, always knowing what the other band members were thinking and doing.
Allman, Was, and Lehman spent significant time plotting out Southern Blood, carefully selecting material that would capture the moment and simultaneously serve as a synopsis of an undeniably extraordinary life. Songs like Bob Dylan’s haunting Going, Going Gone and Tim Buckley’s immortal Once I Was allowed Allman a chance to look back over his time on Earth while also pondering the journey that lay ahead.
“Gregg, Don and I listened to a lot of material,” Lehman says. “We went back and forth with each other to ultimately come up with songs that Gregg felt reflected his mood, where he was presently in life both on a personal level and professional level, as well as what would be on his fans’ minds later on.”
Rich with emotional texture, historical connectivity, and purity of performance, Southern Blood would be a landmark Gregg Allman record under any circumstance, its powerful subject matter and passionate presentation as emblematic an expression of his distinctive art as any prior work in the Allman canon. Though his loss leaves a vast musical space that can never truly be filled, Southern Blood stands tall as a remarkable valedictory and memorial to a true giant of American music, now and forever.
Tracklist:
1-01. Gregg Allman – My Only True Friend (06:16)
1-02. Gregg Allman – Once I Was (03:56)
1-03. Gregg Allman – Going Going Gone (04:29)
1-04. Gregg Allman – Black Muddy River (04:37)
1-05. Gregg Allman – I Love The Life I Live (03:31)
1-06. Gregg Allman – Willin’ (03:36)
1-07. Gregg Allman – Blind Bats And Swamp Rats (04:32)
1-08. Gregg Allman – Out Of Left Field (04:09)
1-09. Gregg Allman – Love Like Kerosene (04:17)
1-10. Gregg Allman – Song For Adam [feat. Jackson Browne] (06:21)
1-11. Gregg Allman – I Love The Life I Live (Live From The Clay Center, Charleston, West Virginia, May 6, 2016) (05:24)
1-12. Gregg Allman – Love Like Kerosene (Live From The Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2016) (07:10)
