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By Don Graham
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It's a shame when the
great ones hang around too
long. Performers and others
in the public eye frequently
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it would be great if the 1980
story was one of a great band ,
reassuming its place as ine j
cream of southern music and
one of the heavyweights of J
rock and roll. That is not the j
case.
Although it was not .
detectable at the time, the j
band lost nearly all of its
creative force when Duane
Allman died nine years ago. J
Although the band's greatest .
popularity, along with its |
canonization as one of the ;
leaders on the rock 4n' roll ,
trail of tears, came during
the four years following ,
Duane's death, the con
tradiction is easily explained.
The band's
mystique wasnaturally
enhanced by the loss of one
of its namesakes and its onstage
spokesman. When Eat
A Peach was released in
1972, it sold more than any of I ij
its predecessors, it renewed
public interest in the band's
three previous records. It is
an album of great music that
time has not diminished, and
Duane plays on two-thirds of
it.
Brothers and Sisters
released the next year, was
the last good album by the
Allmans and it is the only
good one which Duane did
not play. Win, Lose or Draw
was the last album before
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Jhe band got back together
ind released Enlightened
Rogues. It was more of the
jame ? no Band, just
Dickey and Gregg's songs.
Now comes Reach For The
Sky and the components are
jtill the same, only the
formula is slightly changed.
The first two cuts reveal
just about all that exists in
iie record. The first, "Hell
and High Water," is a Bettszuitar-dominated
sons
dealing with, of course,
trials and tribulations of the
band. The power of the lyrics
s exhibited in such lines as
'Maybe someday they'll
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Perhaps they will if you
remind them too.
Then it's Gregg's turn, and
he presents a beach music
clone called "Mystery
Woman," with horns, orchestration
and mindless
lyrics. Here one begins to
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these guys are from
"Whipping Post" and
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cut, "From the Madness of
the West," is the token instrumental;
the song works
for awhile and conjures
western images in the mind.
And so the album
progresses. There is one
really nice cut on the record,
and it's not "Angeline," the
song currently getting both
AM and FM play. It is the
last cut, "So Long," a
haunting ballad written by
Gregg. It may be a good-bye
to both the band and its
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would be a respectable way
to fade out. The reuniting of
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