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2007 ABB Live CD's

2007 was a year of renewal and rejuvenation that saw the Allman Brothers Band playing at a legendary level, and the proof is on CD! During the summer 2007 tour the band performed over 60 different songs from their extensive catalog, including interesting covers like “Lost Lover Blues,” “And It Stoned Me,” “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Come On In My Kitchen,” “Smokestack Lightning,”“Manic Depression,” “Lovelight,” and “Dazed and Confused.” They also brought back rarely-played originals like “Who to Believe,” “Gambler’s Roll,” “End of the Line,” and “Firing Line.” Gregg and Warren’s vocals were outstanding throughout the tour and the band’s playing was full of power and passion.

There were plenty of special guest appearances this summer, which added immensely to the musical magic. Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars sparked some outstanding jams at Saratoga Springs. JJ Grey of Mofro added vocals and a mean harmonica to "Smokestack Lightening" in Raleigh. Susan Tedeschi sat in at a number of shows, playing a blistering version of “Lost Lover Blues” (which makes it’s first appearance on a soundboard recording) as well as staples such as “The Weight,” “Don’t Think Twice,” and “Anyday.” Bob Weir and the other members of Ratdog sat in with the ABB several times, culminating in a jammed-out version of “All Along the Watchtower” on 8/22 at Holmdel with both bands on stage! Don’t forget pedal steel maestro Robert Randolph, who guested with the ABB several times, including a scorching “Turn On Your Lovelight” encore at the 8/24 Clarkston show.

Best of all, this year saw the band inserting new jams into “Black Hearted Woman” and “No One To Run With,” playing a bluesy intro jam to songs like “Trouble No More,” “Done Somebody Wrong” and “Hoochie Coochie Man,” and generally proving once again that they are the best improvisational rock band in the world. Their classic jam songs like “Jessica,” “Mountain Jam” and “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” have never sounded better, with soaring solos from Warren and Derek matched in their intensity only by the best rhythm section in rock today. Perhaps Derek summed it up best when he said “this band is playing as a band, better than any other year since I joined in 1999!”

We have all of the individual shows in stock and are also offering three special packages for your enjoyment: The traditional West Best package where you get six of the best shows of the summer (as selected by the Tour Mystic) for the price of 5! The West Best El Grande - where you get 12 of the best shows for the price of 10! And, the 2007 Complete Summer Set - which will be ready in early December. This year's complete set will be housed in a beautiful, lacquered cedar box and include exclusive photos from the tour, a year's subscription to Hittin' the Note magazine and several more surprises - including the ABB Farm Aid performance!

Click here to read more info about each show and to order. If you have any questions regarding ordering from Hittin' the Note please call us toll-free at 888-746-4616, or locally in Atlanta, GA at 770-640-1124.

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GREAT NEWS! We have an answer to your question "when is the next archival release coming?" It's here now! There's a new release available featuring the original ABB lineup playing at the Boston Common August 17, 1971. Recorded just five months after the historic Fillmore East shows, this gem includes "Statesboro Blues," "Trouble No More," "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'," a 26 minute "You Don't Love Me," Berry's vocals on "Hoochie Coochie Man," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," and a riveting and unusual "Whipping Post" finale. You can buy it at the Beacon shows or click to order it online.

Scratchin' your head about how to brighten someone's day? Do we ever have a cure for the blues! It's a sure bet that someone you care about would like an Allman Brothers Band CD or DVD they don't have. Come see all the CDs and DVDs and more at Hittin' the Note and we are sure you will find something for all your music-loving friends!

The first ABB archive release, American University, 12/13/70, another superb early recording and ABB manager Bert Holman's first show, is back in stock! The second ABB archive release, SUNY at Stonybrook, 9/19/71, contains one of the best “Dreams” ever captured on tape and a rare “Blue Sky” with Duane! Recorded just weeks prior to Duane’s untimely passing, this one will surely make you sit up and listen to the growth of the band in its short run to that point. The third ABB archive, Macon, 2/11/72, captures the intense spirit and determination the "5-man band era" showed as they regrouped following the loss of their leader, Duane Allman. Many of your friends here at HTW heard the band during this extremely emotional era and found healing in the music, including members of the ABB themselves. A rare glimpse into that time can be found on this CD. The fourth archival release from the Allman Brothers Band features the same lineup that recorded the legendary Brothers and Sisters album, with new members Chuck Leavell and Lamar Williams. Nassau Coliseum, 5/1/73 is another proud addition to this line of great archival shows from the Allman Brothers Band. This particular incarnation was often referred to as the “best damn band in the land,” and for good reason. Such ABB gems as “Jessica,” “Come and Go Blues,” “Ramblin’ Man,” and “Wasted Words,” plus a cool “Mountain Jam” are highlights of this outstanding recording. In addition, old chestnuts are revamped to fit the current lineup – this one is a keeper for sure!

Each new issue of Hittin’ the Note magazine brings you the latest in-depth coverage of the Allman Brothers Band and its extended family, as well as other bands and artists you have come to love over the years, and some new and exciting ones as well. Chock-full of CD reviews, DVD and book reviews, Hittin’ the Note is continuing to grow and respond to you, our readers. Check us out on the web at Hittin' the Note and see all that we have for you. Subscribe for one year US at $21.00, or for two years at $39.00, an almost 20% savings over the newsstand price. Foreign subscriptions are $35.00 for one year, and Canadian subscriptions are $25.00 per year. We are also the official Allman Brothers Band merchandising arm on the Internet, and we have all of the new 2006 T-shirts and more for you. Hittin’ the Note… because music matters.

Wanee 2007 DVD

Does life get much better than Wanee Fest? Maybe it does, but if so, we haven’t experienced it! If you want to re-live the Wanee 2007 experience, or you just want to find out what the buzz is about, help is on the way, thanks to the folks at JamCam Chronicles. This nearly 3 hour DVD does a great job capturing the ABB family vibe! Click here to order.

Stand Back: A 35 Year Anthology

First Allman Brothers Band Retrospective to Span 35-Year Career! Two-CD Stand Back: The Anthology Features All The Classics and More With 32 Recordings! Thirty-five years after their recording debut, there is still no other group like The Allman Brothers Band--authors of an indispensable style of American music that became known as Southern Rock, they grew into a musical icon culminating with their 1994 induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now the Brothers have a retrospective like none other in their lengthy history. Thirty-five years after their recording debut, there is still no other group like The Allman Brothers Band--authors of an indispensable style of American music that became known as Southern Rock, they grew into a musical icon culminating with their 1994 induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now the Brothers have a retrospective like none other in their lengthy history.... want to know more? Read On!

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Allman Brothers Band Releases "One Way Out"

Double Live CD Documents 2003 ‘March Madness’ Run at the Beacon Theatre in New York City

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The Allman Brothers Band, one of rock’s most acclaimed live acts and 1994 Hall Of Fame inductees has released a new double live CD 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 platinum DVD "Live At The Beacon Theatre" as well as, additional live tracks from the Beacon performances. (click for the rest of the story).

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The Allman Brothers Band are "Hittin' the Note"

The Allman Brothers Band has released their first new release in nine years. Titled "Hittin' the Note" the 11 cut CD kicks off with "Firing Line," and grows through the heartache intensity of "Desdemona," the reflective delicacy of "Old Before My Time," the alternating blues feel and funky strut of the Freddy King cover "Woman Across the River," the sizzling roadhouse shuffle of "Maydell," and the breathtaking virtuosity on tracks that range from the intimate acoustic slide dialog of "Old Friend" to the trademark extended jam "Instrumental Illness," a burnin' twelve-minute marathon. There’s also an inspired blues version of the Rolling Stones’ “Heart of Stone,” which the Allman Brothers Band definitely put their stamp on.

Gregg Allman describes "Hittin' the Note" as "the best album we've made since Eat a Peach.” For Media Reviews of "Hittin' the Note" click here.

The CD was released March 18 on the band's own Peach Records in partnership with Sanctuary Records, and is available in stores everywhere and at the Beacon shows.(for more information see the press release below)

You can also order the CD at Hittin' The Note or Amazon.com. Go get it!

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We will be working with the non-partisan organization HeadCount over the next year to register voters and encourage political participation among people of all ages. To volunteer for HeadCount and help staff voter registration booths at concerts, or to register to vote, visit www.headcount.org. HeadCount has set a goal of registering 200,000 voters in 2008, ensuring that music fans are well represented at the polls. We are proud to be among many artists supporting this important cause.

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The Allman Brothers Band is Doing Fantastic

By: Timothy Flynn
For: The Flint Journal

As bass player in the Allman Brothers Band, Oteil Burbridge has never found it difficult to keep busy. The prolific musician, who joined the group in 1997, is also a founding member of jazz-rockers Aquarium Rescue Unit and Oteil and the Peacemakers.

But while Burbridge enjoyed the musical variety those concurrent projects brought him, he soon found it was just important to know when to say, "no."

"I've really tried to cut it down," he said of his many projects. "One year I played in six different bands, and it really wore me out. So now I try to pare it down. I've gotta have some time at home.

"I was tired -- that's what the effect was. If you overextend yourself, you don't have as much to offer. I don't think any of the groups suffered, but I did."

He said he's found a good balance these days, concentrating on the Allmans and a new project, an all-purpose power trio with Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and guitarist Scott Murawski, titled KBM. With just two bands vying for his time, Burbridge finds it much easier to manage his schedule these days.

"We're only doing 24 dates with the Allman Brothers this year," he said, "so I don't really have to work around it. But normally that would be the case."

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Allman Brothers Band Tight and Crisp

By: John Luciew
For: PennLive

Gregg Allman proves that youth is wasted on the young.

The gray-bearded leader of the Allman Brothers Band survived a drug- and drink-fueled misspent youth and more recently battled back from a yearlong convalescence from complications of hepatitis C.

Yet, there he was, robust as ever at 60, surrounded by bandmates old and new, spinning mesmerizing Southern rock and blues-rock standards to the delight of nearly 6,000 at The Star Pavilion at Hersheypark Monday night.

Allman, clad in black with his long, flowing hair pulled into a ponytail, powered through songs with a muscular voice and nimble keyboard fingers.

However, he mostly remained ensconced behind his keyboards. It was a two-hour set balanced with Allman classics ("Melissa," "Mountain Jam"), covers ("Stormy Monday," "One Way Out") and newer material.

The quintessential jam band sure lived up to its reputation, with extended rifts that were at times fierce and frenzied, and at others gentle and wafting.

For the most part, the crowd reveled in the musical excess, shimmying, swaying and shuffling as psychedelic images, including the band's trademark mushroom, flashed on a giant screen backdropping the band.

Still, a few songs seemed to go on so long, the overplay certainly came at the expense of other favorites. For example, where was "Whipping Post?"

But these were minor quibbles. Though the alchemy of the Allman Brothers has changed over the years, the band was tight, the sound as crisp and clean as the late August evening.

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Allmans, RatDog a dandy duo at CMAC

By: Jeff Sevak
For: The Democrat and Chronicle

If the Allman Brothers Band would come out some night and simply play Live at Fillmore East from start to finish, that's all many of their fans would need. If RatDog would come out and simply play the Grateful Dead, that's all the fans of the Dead's guitarist, Bob Weir, and his offshoot band would need.

It was close on both counts Friday night at Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center. And nothing's wrong with that. Not when you see old hippies beaming while singing along to "Casey Jones," their extra-wide mature bodies stretching the tie-dye T-shirts to the seam limit, looking like exploding suns.

Friday's double bill on this hot and sticky evening drew about 10,000 — a big success story for the venue, now in its third season of post-renovation ambition. It was the second-biggest show of the summer, which along with last month's Kenny Chesney concert, in past years would have been at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center.

Who was there? The guys in the row in front of me were wearing T-shirts celebrating Hendrix, Woodstock '99 and Barack Obama. The Allman's usual blend of bikers and faux-biker lawyers. The Dead's mix of multi-generational weed sniffers.

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Allmans come out smokin'

By: Neil Kirby
For: The Saratogan

Nearly 40 years after the Allman Brothers' first performance in Jacksonville, Fla., some might wonder if the legendary jam band has, like other artists famous for pushing the proverbial envelope in the late '60s and early '70s, gone by the way of carin.'

Today, the band sounds like an echo of the artists once known for mixing musical styles and achieving a level of technical mastery, then unknown to rock and roll.

While they played classics such as "Midnight Rider" and "Jessica" at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Tuesday to legions of new fans - many born years after the originals were written - images of past performers and musical influences appeared on a screen suspended above the stage.

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Allman Brothers are still the real deal

By: Ryan Alan
For: Fosters

When publicists for the Allman Brothers Band suggest the storied group still plays like they have something to prove, it is not intended as mere press bio flourish.

That's because it is the truth, said Warren Haynes, a veteran member of the beloved Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band, as well as one of the most acclaimed guitarists in contemporary music.

"That's part of our mission every night," he assured. "We walk on stage with something to prove."

The ABB would not have it any other way, he emphasized. It is a musical contingent, after all, that he believes is considered an "American institution."

"What makes it special for us is the sound is as valid night after night," Haynes said. The group's music is based around improvisation and the collective interplay that happens within the band, he explained. "It's really important to us that the interplay is at the top of its game so to speak. We never want to reach a point where we just walk out and play the songs. It's always got to be a challenge. That's absolutely what keeps it fresh and interesting."

"I was such a fan of the group growing up. Some of the things that struck me then strike me today. They were blending musical elements together that had never been blended that way. It's an unmistakably unique sound. They created their own genre."

Not too many bands can say that, he agreed. It is a sound that married rock, blues, country and jazz in such tunes as "Revival," "Dreams," "Midnight Rider," "Melissa" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed."

As Willie Nelson put it in inducting the Allmans into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "The Allman Brothers Band took what moved them and merged it into something unique that audiences love: a sound that redefined the direction of rock'n'roll and opened the doors to a spirit of experimentation that continues in today's music."

They were and still are one of the most exciting live bands ever to hit the stage, Nelson added. He said they reflect so many of his own sentiments about music: "Originality, a determination not to be confined musically, or stylistically, but instead to forge your own way and make music that moves you, a devotion to the road and understanding that beyond pleasing yourself as an artist, the only consideration should be the people."

Haynes said he was quite moved by those words, and honored that it was Nelson expressing them. Haynes assured that the members are well aware that this isn't just any band in which they are playing. There is a real pride in being able to say they are a member of the Allman Brothers.

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