This album marked the end of the second version of the Allman Brothers Band. A close listen reveals they were already on their last legs.

Three good songs emerge, however. "Can't Lose What You Never Had" is as rockin' a hard blues number as they ever recorded. Just a phenomenal performance, makes you wonder what it's doing on such an otherwise lifeless album.

"Win, Lose or Draw" may contain the best lyrics Gregg Allman has ever written, but it suffers from an uncharacteristically weak vocal performance.

"High Falls" is a jazzy instrumental which features a spacey introduction which recalls "Les Brers in A Minor" from Eat a Peach. Chuck Leavell's electric piano is especially noteworthy here.

The rest of the album is filler, and not especially good filler. In fact, "Louisiana Lou" may be the worst song they ever recorded.

On the whole, this album is pretty unlistenable except for the opening track and the instrumental "High Falls." It would have been nice to see these two outstanding tracks featured somewhere else, like a compilation ("Dreams" manages a version of "Can't Lose"). Stick with the earlier and/or later work of the Allman Brothers.

The song 'High falls' is simply amazing, I had never heard it before and couldn't believe it. How could this song never make the air waves, all be it 25+ plus years after it's recording. That's all I had to say, I'm a hugh music fan and collector, yet I'd never heard this flowing rose of an instrumental song, my life just improved a notch.

This was an album that I had as a recent high-school graduate. It was released in 1975. It is quite short, at right around 40 minutes. Fortunately, there are no bad tracks of the seven listed on the CD. In fact, all but one I would consider very good. One, I would consider good. I had a cassette version that I played in my car. I would tool the hiways of Miami listening to "High Falls", which I consider one of the great freeway cruising tunes. My car would swing and sway with the incessant beat of the base line, the crisp guitar licks, and the smooth drum beat. Great instrumental. I am looking forward to seeing if "High Falls" has the same effect on new vehicles, and an older man.

Musicians:

Gregg Allman, Richard Betts, Chuck Leavell, Lamar Williams, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks.

Additional Musicians

Sohnny Sandlin

Bill Stewart

When I found this CD, at a truck stop midway between kansas city and topeka, one could say it was destiny. No sleep, still a ways to go -Denver Destination-, this one got me through. I don't know how many times I listened to High Falls, and win, lose or draw, Lousianna Lou....great stuff...of course I think you can tell Betts and Gregg Allman were starting the well known coke phase around this time, cause you can hear that coke nose singing coming through on the tracks -everyone sounding like they had colds. But High Falls, man the keyboard solo and the guitar solo to follow....if you are ever looking to get through some tough, long highway miles, throw this CD in, and navigate to high falls and turn that up...if ever there was a soundtrack to miles and miles of corn fields or absolutely barren land, this is the one....I gave it 5 for the 2-3 great tracks on here. They make up for the lack of inspiration contained in the rest, but it is the last great Allman Brothers Album!!!! High Falls is a lot better than that huge Mountain Jam...and is as adictive as a song can be....although beware, it's hard to not want to get down and boogie behind the wheel to High Falls. And keep an eye on the speedometer, one tends to put the pedal to the metal midway through the keyboard solo.