The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica - 4/20/1979 - Capitol Theatre (Official) 

Rest in Peace, Dickey Betts. You'll be missed.

We were blessed in those days with an incredible amount of guitar giants: Beck, Paige, Clapton, Duane Allman, Santana, Garcia and Betts, who could hold his own with anybody. My condolences to his loved ones, RIP Dickey, you were good.

R.I.P. Mr Betts. We have lost one of our finest guitar players.

RIP Dickey Betts One of the very best players ever

Dickey Betts should get all the credits for this amazing song. 🌺🌹🏵️🌸🌻💐

R.I. P THE LEGEND DICKEY BETTS

Fantastic drumming by Jamoe and Butch. RIP-Duane, Berry, The Toler Brothers, Butch and Gregg....your music lives on forever.

On the way to the hospital with my wife in labor, we still didn't know what to call our baby daughter. Allman Brothers Jessica came on the radio. Jessica it was. R.I.P. Greg Allman and thanks

Music like this should be preserved in a time capsule for the future!👍👍👏

Listen, me an my first wife, an Nelson an his wife, Ida, drove a 76 Chevette to Jersey to see them...scalped 4 different tickets! Got really messed up! I'm 64 now, I'd do it again in a heart beat!!!!

Never, and i mean never gets old!

😓Thanks for all the great music you and the brothers created and beyond. thanks for being a part of the soundtrack of my life😎❤👍✌

The Brothers are cookin'! So many good times with The Allman Brothers. I miss those good ol' days. 🍑

How in the Hell can you dislike this?!? Grief!!

Dickey Betts and Les Paul, such a fine duo ! :-)

My cousin sends me this every year on my birthday (My name is Jessica) and I look so forward to it and love it so much! ❤️

I love the way they end this song, it’s like landing a jumbo jet, they line up from a distance and gentle feather it on its glide path and the right when it is about run out of speed and stall they grease the landing like captain of many, many years. Love it. Mountain Jam too, just incredible music that is The Allman Bothers! 🙌👏✌️

Wish I could go back in time and hear my fave bands like ABB and Skynyrd when they were at their finest. People just don't play or write like this anymore.

Wow!!! Dickey really chased some wild rabbits before entering the ending of it this time. I guess he thought, I wrote this, and I will put anything I feel like into it, and he did. Some great, one of a kind, riffs. Outstanding!!

Betts amazing ,, the Allmans Bros. doesn't get any better.. thanks Lord giving me life then, so my teen years were with this music..

I can't get enough of The Allman Brothers Band. Just listened to Whipping Post again. Love the Allman Brothers Band. Always have, Always Will.

For me, the Allman Brothers were and always will be one of the greatest bands ever. This song is happy, sunny and just great! It's why I gave my youngest daughter her name. Like this song, she is all of the above. I dare you to listen to this wide open while riding down an open road with the windows down on a cool crisp spring day!

Dickey Betts is such a stud, the flashiest he gets is pouting his lips and nodding his head up and down.

RIP Butch Trucks. You gave us one of the all time great songs from an all time great album. Whatever pain he was in, has ended. Thank you for the wonderful music.

best rock instrumental ever. best jam band ever

Great guitar control in unison. Always loved this helluva long jam.

Dickie Betts at his very best. Sensational.

Man, this is a great live version of this song. Dickie was going all out on that solo. Great job!

They all jam so hard. Love every version of this amazing song. Dicky rocks hella big time 🎉❤🎉

Nothing better than southern rock at the time ⏲, i.miss the era ,.

RIP Gregg Allman. I'm sad to see you leave this life. But your legacy lives on! Condolences to family and friends. Enjoy the cosmos, Gregg!

Written by guitarist Dickey Betts, the song is a tribute to Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, in that it was designed to be played using only two fingers on the left hand. Django had suffered damage to his left hand in a fire at his home when a very young man, losing nearly all use of his two small fingers on that hand, but went on despite that to become one of the world's greatest and most influential guitarists. Betts wrote the majority of "Jessica" at the band's farm in Juliette, Georgia. He named it after his daughter, Jessica Betts, who was an infant when it was released. She had bounced along to the song's rhythm, and Betts attempted to capture her attitude with its melody. He invited fellow guitarist Les Dudek over to collaborate on it, and Dudek performed the bridge. Some accounts credit Dudek with the acoustic intro on the recording. The arrangement was crafted prior to recording, which took place at Capricorn Sound Studios in Macon, Georgia. Along with _'Jessica,'_ Zappa's _'Sexual Harassment in the Workplace'_ and _'Silver and Gold'_ by Quicksilver Messenger Service are among my favorite rock instrumentals.

NEVER GET TIRED OF THIS SOUND!!!!!!!

Tonight.... I listen to old music... The Allman Brothers jam it... And you press like...

wow......i miss this stuff. unbelievable how good of a band they were

Dickey Betts you're the best!

Probably the greatest American rock and roll band of all time.

1984 live performance is THE best. And I’ve looked at all of them on YT.

My daughter will be 30 years old this weekend, named her after hearing this song on the radio,headed to the hospital for my wife's c-section

I usually got a PA mix from the sound console/front of house guy, and added a little of a live mic I hung from the Capitol ceiling. I ran the two feeds, house PA and live ambience mic, through a Shure mixer, into a classic old DBX compressor/limiter and via a 1/8" mini-phone plug into the Sony 1/2" open reel video tape recorder. it's freakin' amazing to me how the track is even usable, let alone sounding pretty good. On some shows, we used David Vanderheyden's WNEW-FM mix, but most shows weren't on the radio.

I remember this song was a favorite at our camping shindigs on the weekends during my high school years living in good ole Rome, Ga. back in the mid 2000's. I had a friend whose father knew the Allman Brothers personally, he would smoke us out and tell us all these crazy stories about the band. He had a bunch of personal photos with the band members so I know he wasn't bullshitting! Now I live all the way across the states, in Seattle! Still love the band! Miss my high school friends. We were a quite the group!

RIP Greg Allman. You are a legend and your memory will live on.

holy Dicky Betts that is wonderful

makes me feel good

The Goat of the major scale!!!!

The Capitol had some awesome shows back in the day...I do miss the place...

Dickey Betts! Maybe I should say Dickey Best. This is my favorite Allman Brothers song. It really does evoke images of a child bopping around.

I know there were a few mess ups but it made it better it just reminded me of a few guys jamming out having fun without a care in the world

I knew over 30 years ago that my first daughters name would be Jessica, solely because of this song, and 33 years later my oldest daughter, Jessica, has given me a great grandson, who is now 11. The Allman brothers have been and will always be part of my life.

Phenomenal! Great to see Gregg's solo on Jessica.

Back in the day, I saw a LOT of concerts. These guys might have put on the most enjoyable good vibes show I've ever seen, felt like the idea of a Greatful dead show, very peace, love and great vibes of peace and joy. And yes, they were very much ON that night.

Rest In Peace Greg! Thank you for all the wonderful music that made the memories on my journey! Prayers and Love to family and friends!

❤ RIP. So many legends sadly gone 😢

We don't deserve music this great

Music to smoke and drink to

Love it... so reminiscent of Molly H. with the 2 guitars.... what an honor it is to know this music and appreciate it....

HOLY FUCKIN' SHIT!!!!! I'm amazed, and always will be. No words on my end. I'll just embarrass myself....

For stretching out a bit , this is one of the best Jessica's out there to be seen. They had just got back together, reformed in '79 w/ Dangerous & Rook. "Enlightened Rogues" was just out in Feb. I got to see them back about 10 weeks later. By the way, the 84 who voted thumbs down need to be lobotomized musically.

Go Dickey, Go!!!

THEY WERE SO GREAT!!!!!

My best friend and his wife named their twin daughters, Amie by Pure Prairie League and Jessica by Allman Brothers Band about 20 years ago. Favorite people, favorite songs. Thanks guys

Can anyone say thank you to Dicki Betts he wrote this song for his daughter, and most of there hit songs. Get a CLUE people....

Allman Brothers Band un clásico un gigante del ROCK GRACIAS A ESTE GRUPO SIEMPRE ME SORPRENDE. SU MUSIICA ES FANTÁSTICA

Is there any band like this today? Where are the hiding, certainly not the the Bieber!

Jessica sure touched his heart

Once again, I send this to my fantastic cousin Jessica for her birthday! You rock, my chica!

These GUYS ARE tight right on key love It

One of the best concerts I ever saw.

this is one of my favorite things I've seen

so tight... listening for an old friend tonight he loves Dickey Betts

I love when a band CAN DO... LIVE ...what they put on the album!!

My youngest daugher is named after this incredible track.

This is the best even though 40 some years old. Let it be!

Love the Allman brothers, saw them 8 times since 2004, but there is only one blues, rock and any thing in between and that is David Gilmour which i saw 5 times.

We saw them at RFK, in DC in 1973. One of their 1st gigs after the demise of Duane, & just before the release of Brothers & Sisters. They opened with Jessica, a Park Security Guard on the speaker tower, took his hat off, down to his side, after Dicky's riff. I got chills listening to this recorded rendition.

Betts the master composer!

Great to see and hear. I just keep slipping back these days listening to the ABB. Best all-time band

I love jessica

Duane and Gregg reunited, they started an amazing band that saw so many incredible musicians over the years their legacy willl go on forever

I love you and I hope you still feel the same way towards me

I remember listening to this back in the late '70s after working at a restaurant. I was 17 years old. We'd get together at a friend's apartment, "burn some tree" playing our tennis rackets to the Allman Brothers.

Saw them play this at Brave’s stadium in 1975, along with Lenard Skynard and The Marshall Tucker band. A date and I had driven up from Auburn and it was maybe the craziest day in my life. I don’t remember much, but I remember them coming on stage VERY late and playing this song. Suzanne, if you’re still out there, thank you.

Gregg at the top of his game . Don't forget Duane brought that Hammond 3 organ and told Gregg he had to learn how to play it . And that he did ! The Best !!!!!

Rest in peace, Gregg Allman.

Gregg on the Hammond organ !

What a treat! ABB accompanied us all the way to southern France in the van a long time ago. Still love it.

I want to be Dickey Betts when I grow up

Happy Birthday Jai Johanny Johanson born on July 8, 1944. He is frequently known by the stage name Jaimoe. He is an American drummer and percussionist, one of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaimoe

GOD DAMN..!!!

i want back the time when quality stuff like that was comin out of radio stations on average.

I went to so many concerts at the Capitol theater! Thanks for this post!

fainted dehydrated and heard them on my back at knebworth (1974?). wonderful memory

Great Song! That's music!

Music was all about the feel good factor then..now it’s mostly doom & gloom, depression anxiety ridden “music”..I got my musical education listening to many great bands such as this by listening to Radio Caroline pirate radio ship back in the day..epic times sadly missed & long gone 👍😎

Best blues band there ever was, terrible shame duane allman died so young, Really loved this band from my high school days

Wow, Wow, just WOW!

. . on a 4/20...the place to be

saw them live so many times at the Capitol..💓😇

My favorite instrumental, period. They never played it the same way twice, in all of their live concerts, never. The guitar harmony was great, here, as always. I did miss the piano feature, and always do when it is not played. "People down in Georgia come from near and far to hear Richard Betts pickin on that red guitar."

Tks Allman Brothers 4u music