The Allman Brothers Band Album: «3 Pak: Evening With / 2nd Set / Seven Turns»
The Allman Brothers Band Album: «3 Pak: Evening With / 2nd Set / Seven Turns»
- Customers rating: (4.3 of 5)
- Title:3 Pak: Evening With / 2nd Set / Seven Turns
- Release date:2000-03-28
- Type:Audio CD
- Label:Sony
- UPC:074642438828
- 1 - 1 End Of The Lineimg 4:39
- 1 - 2 Blue Skyimg 5:11
- 1 - 3 Get On With Your Lifeimg 6:59
- 1 - 4 Southboundimg 7:53
- 1 - 5 Midnight Bluesimg 5:15
- 1 - 6 Melissaimg 3:55
- 1 - 7 Nobody Knowsimg 10:59
- 1 - 8 Dreamsimg 11:21
- 1 - 9 Revivalimg 5:57
- 2 - 1 Sailin' 'Cross The Devil's Seaimg 4:58
- 2 - 2 You Don't Love Meimg 6:37
- 2 - 3 Soulshine The Allman Brothers Band, Dan Matrazzo, Paul Riddle and Dr. Dan Matrazzoimg 6:44
- 2 - 4 Back Where It All Beginsimg 9:12
- 2 - 5 In Memory of Elizabeth Reedimg 19:45
- 2 - 6 The Same Thingimg 7:01
- 2 - 7 No One To Run Withimg 6:30
- 2 - 8 Jessicaimg 15:18
- 3 - 1 Good Clean Funimg 5:19
- 3 - 2 Let Me Rideimg 4:37
- 3 - 3 Low Down Dirty Meanimg 5:53
- 3 - 4 Shine It Onimg 4:53
- 3 - 5 Loaded Diceimg 3:31
- 3 - 6 Seven Turnsimg 4:42
- 3 - 7 Gambler's Rollimg 6:47
- 3 - 8 True Gravityimg 7:59
- 3 - 9 It Ain't Over Yetimg 4:55
This is not a box set in the traditional sense...there is nothing here which wasn't on the albums as they were originally issued, no new liner notes or bonus tracks or anything like that. It's merely three of the Allman Brothers Band's 90s albums in a cardbord box.
But if you're a fan of the band, and don't have any of these three CDs, this is a good way to acquire them. You'll even save something like fifty cents!
The two live albums are magnificent, the sound is great, the mix of old and new songs, hits and rarities, is excellent, and there are numerous highlights on both discs: "Get On With Your Life", "Soulshine", "Sailin' 'Cross The Devil's Sea", "Back Where It All Begins", the acoustic slide guitar blues "Midnight Blues", and the classic "Melissa".
"Seven Turns" isn't quite as immediately accesible, perhaps, but the Allmans' bluesy 1990 comeback album is definitely worth as listen as well. It features a number of really great songs, including "Good Clean Fun", "Low Down Dirty Mean", the hook-laden "It Ain't Over Yet", and the acoustic title track, and it is generally strong all the way through.
All in all, this is a great collection of music, well arranged, well produced, and superbly well played.
4 1/2 stars - highly recommended.
All three of these CDs are amazing. The sound is great, the performances are great. It is almost as amazing as the Duane/Berry era. Above all you are practicly getting three CDs for the price of two! That is a deal!
The best disk of these three is 2nd Set, which is as good as anything the Allmans have released on record short of the Fillmore Concerts. The highlight is Back Where it All Begins, which is the best Dickey Betts jam I know of.
Seven Turns is a good disk as well, though very different than 2nd Set. Turns sounds more like a Lynyrd Skynyrd album (Skynyrd minus the rowdiness, that is) than an Allman Brothers album: it's radio-friendly stuff, more tune-oriented and less jam-oriented.
As for 1st Set I can't say I enjoyed it much. The band had only been back together for a couple of years when they played the concerts these takes come from, and they hadn't found their groove by then as far as I'm concerned. But a couple of the tracks are all right and if you're a serious enough Allmans fan to be buying Seven Turns, you'll want to have 1st Set as well. Besides, buying these discs in the three-pack here is like buying 2nd Set and Turns and getting 1st Set for free.