THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
SET TO RELEASE ‘ONE WAY OUT’;
DOUBLE LIVE CD DOCUMENTS 2003 ‘MARCH MADNESS’ RUN AT THE BEACON THEATRE IN NEW YORK CITY;
GROUP TO PERFORM ON ‘LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O’BRIEN’ MARCH 16 IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 18 LAUNCH OF THIS YEAR’S ‘MARCH MADNESS’ ENGAGEMENT
The ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND, one of rock’s most acclaimed live acts and 1994 Hall Of Fame inductees will release a new double live CD March 23 on Peach/Sanctuary Records. Titled ONE WAY OUT, it documents the band’s ‘March Madness’ run at the Beacon Theatre last year in New York City and features the 12-minute tour de force “Instrumental Illness,” for which the band has been nominated for a Grammy this year in the “Best Rock Instrumental Performance” category. ONE WAY OUT includes songs seen on last year’s DVD Live At The Beacon Theatre–which is nearing platinum status–as well as, additional live tracks from the Beacon performances.
Meanwhile, look for the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND–GREGG ALLMAN (vocals and keyboards), JAIMOE (drums), BUTCH TRUCKS (drums and tympani) WARREN HAYNES (vocals, lead and slide guitar), OTEIL BURBRIDGE (bass), MARC Quiñones (congas and percussion) and DEREK TRUCKS (slide and lead guitar)–to perform Tuesday, March 16 on “Late Night With Conan O‘Brien” in advance of this year’s “March Madness” Beacon shows beginning March 18th.
The 18-track ONE WAY OUT mixes ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND classics (among them “Dreams,” “Midnight Rider” and “Whippin’ Post”) with six songs from their critically acclaimed HITTIN’ THE NOTE, the band’s latest studio album and their first album of new material in nine years (released last spring on Peach/Sanctuary Records). As Steve Morse noted in his Boston Globe review (3/28/03): “…one listen will convince you that the Allmans are really hitting a new peak,” while Jay Lustig raved in the Newark Star Ledger (3/16/03) “It often approaches and sometimes reaches the level of Allman recordings of yore.” Jay Babcock, writing in the LA Weekly (9/05/03) summed it up when he said: “…the general consensus is that the Allmans are stronger now than they’ve been in years; their stunning new album Hittin’ The Note certainly makes that case.”
Known as one of rock’s best live acts, the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND were one of only two artists whose live albums ranked in the top 50 of Rolling Stone’s recently published list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” The ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND was honored for At Fillmore East (while James Brown was saluted for Live At The Apollo).
The full track listing for ONE WAY OUT is as follows:
DISC 1
1 Statesboro Blues
2 Don’t Keep Me Wondering
3 Midnight Rider
4 Rockin’ Horse
5 Desdemona
6 Trouble No More
7 Wasted Words
8 Good Morning Little School Girl
9 Instrumental Illness
DISC 2
1 Ain’t Wasting Time No More
2 Come & Go Blues
3 Woman Across The River
4 Old Before My Time
5 Every Hungry Woman
6 High Cost of Low Living
7 Worried Down With The Blues
8 Dreams
9 Whipping Post
Catch the ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND during ‘March Madness’ ’04.
Here are the confirmed dates so far:
DATE CITY VENUE
Thu 3/18 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Fri 3/19 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Sat 3/20 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Mon 3/22 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Tue 3/23 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Thu 3/25 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Fri 3/26 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
Sat 3/27 New York, NY Beacon Theatre
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