- I fondly remember diggin' on this in the 70s (in my teens). - And, I just now exclaimed out loud in astonishment of the time gone by: "OVER 50 YEARS AGO!!!" :)
Georgia boy here. I spent the first fifteen years of my career traveling between industrial sites. This song is the opening tune on the sound track of my life. Followed by Call Me the Breeze.
@@icmman7 i don't think he's overlooked. A lot of famous and successful musicians give respect and props to him for his influence and song-writing, and any decent country blues band today will do the same and acknowledge his greatness. Hell, Bob Dylan has said before that Dickie was his favorite guitarist in the world.
What I love most about this song is that it starts off as a sweet little country ditty, but it ends up as a runaway freight train!! Fantastic song with great guitars.
Actually the guitar parts are played by Dickie Betts and Les Dudek who was a Southern Rock guitar-slinger that the ABB recruited for the recording session..
I saw them twice back in the 70s & never knew that Dickie was married to a Native American whose actual name was "Blue Sky". Or "Bluesky" maybe, ANYWAY thats the kind of tidbits of info that really makes the internet worthwhile. And if I'd have known, I might've named my own daughter Blue Sky. Too bad. She would have LOVED it!
I can really hear the two drummer set up in this song, awesome. "Ramblin' Man" was their biggest hit besides "Whipping Post" but my all time favorite by The Allman Brothers is "Blue Sky". It didn't chart well at all for some reason but for me it's one of their best songs. Hope you get to check it out.
What a nice guitar jam. Dickie had such a nice fluidity to his solos. He's got a real good command of switching back and forth between the minor and major pentatonic scales
Truly a Dickey song! After a chorus/verse/chorus/guitar solo/verse/chorus, the song resolves for another two minutes in an intricate section inspired by the end of "Layla," a track Duane Allman played on. This was Dickey Betts' idea. To accomplish it, he first tried overdubbing lots of guitar parts, but then recruited his friend Les Dudek, who was in the studio, to play lead with him, as Duane would have. They played together, creating a bed by repeating the guitar line over and over, then doing it again in a lower register, which they then overdubbed onto the track. Betts then overdubbed a lead part on slide guitar, coming in and out of the track as he listened to the bed. This section served as a tribute to Duane Allman, as it built on the twin-guitar harmony sound he forged with the band. It also gave the band lots of room to show their chops when they played it live. Legends all…
You guys should check out Widespread Panic…it’s the southern version of phish. The music rocks more than phish and the women are much more attractive and plentiful than at phish..both bands came from Col Bruce Hampton. Butch Trucks (one of the AB original drummers) nephew Duane Trucks is the drummer for Widespread Panic. I know you guys like Derek Trucks too!
@@ZackHamlin1 The book I just read said that Jaimoe did not use to the extent that it had such a negative effect on his life. Gregg especially pretty much ruined his life.
The Allman Brothers were in a class all their own. Duane was phenominal, Dickey Betts, Greg Allman. Just amazing music. Try to imagine being 13 in 1970 when all of these bands dropped lps!! There has never been so many different bands with their own sound....EVER. Love it all
The Allman Brothers were the first Southern Rock band. Phenomenal band. Check out "Melissa" sung by lead singer Gregg Allman and "Blue Sky" sung by Dickie Betts. Sadly, all of the original members are gone except for Jaimoe. That is Butch Truck's son on the front cover of the album and on the back cover is Berry Oakley Jr's. daughter.
Written by Dickie Betts. When this first came out, it got overplayed on the radio Keep on keeping on with the excellent weekend 😀 . Excellent reaction, fellas 👏 🎉❤😊😊😊
Dickie, rip, was an asshole apparently. BUT super talented and an integral part of their success. He wrote a lot of the more country sounding songs, whereas the bros were mainly blues. Dickie also wrote great instrumental jams like Elizabeth Reed.
Fillmore East, NYC, Feb. 14, 1970…I was lucky to see their concert with The Dead! The Allman Bros. were immediately loved. Did you check out Melissa? An awesome one.
Gotta watch the live acoustic performance of "Melissa" wit Greg Allman and Dickey Betts if you haven't already. It's a 'magical' performance of that great song!
Props to Phil Walden for starting Capricorn Records. Phil tried to catch Southern Rock on vinyl, many will try, but Phil Walden captured Southern Rock the best on his label.
Fun fact... Dickie brought this song to the band, assuming Gregg would be singing it, seeing as he was the lead singer of the band. Duane convinced Dickie to sing it himself, and helped rewrite some of the guitar parts.
I know how much yall like Lynyrd Skynyrd so if you like Google The Gray House Jacksonville Florida. This house was the Beginnings of The Allman Brothers and is about 5 miles from the Van Zandt house where Ronnie Van Zandt was raised. When The Allman Brothers started to make it they didn't forget about there friends in Jacksonville Florida. You can fact check this in a Documentary called Muscle Shoals and alaso in this Documentary it talks about Duane Allman and how he talked Wison Pickett into singing one of the best versions to me Hey Jude by The Beatles. . 😁
Someone below says check out "Statesboro Blues" (along w/ "Whipping Post" probably my favorite ABB songs. Anyway I read somewhere Rolling Stone named Statesboro Blues #9 of all time best rock songs. Not 100% sure that's true but imo it oughta make everyone's Top Ten list.
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The line “ my father was a gambler….he wound up on the wrong end of a gun…”brings to mind the fact that Duane and Gregg’s father was actually murdered when they were young ….
Another great Dickey Betts song in the same vein as Ramblin Man is 'Good Time Feeling', from his solo effort with his group Great Southern and the album Atlanta's Burning Down. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eRfisONtPeM.htmlfeature=shared
Since you 2 love to dive deeper into what's in a song . Go back & listen to "Ramblin' Man" & focus on Chuck Leaveals Piano Playing which gives the song it's "lift" 🙂
According to the members of the Allman Brothers band, rock ‘n’ roll was born in Memphis, Tennessee, which is in the south so according to them. All rock ‘n’ roll is Southern rock. 😉 The brothers did not like to be called a southern rock band They felt they were much more than that and they were. Rock, blues, jazz country even a little gospel. The brothers did it all. Greatest band in the world….. PERIOD !!!!
How have y’all not hit on this yet? This might actually be the first Allmans I ever heard growing up I think. Such a great summer driving song, for crusing, not speeding lol. You should try “Blue Sky” as well as the very modern 2000s song “Firing Line”.
They began to develop a different sound after Duane Allman died. I think you would love some of their earlier works, like the legendary Whipping Post, especially the extended live version from At Fillmore East: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FUvxRjYqjEQ.html
Keep up the great work guys! LOVE your reviews! I just commented on your review of the Grateful Dead's "Cumberland Blues" from their Europe '72 album because you were making a similar point that they are very diverse in their sound, and you really never know what to expect going in. The same thing happens with The Allman Brothers for the same reason: 2 drummers. Many people don't pick up on how much having 2 drummers really opens up their sound, and expands the rhythmic possibilities.
I saw the Dickie Betts Band live in the mid-80s. This song seemed to go on forever (in a good way). Although, I was tripping on mushrooms at the time. Thanks for the reaction.
This was the first album recorded after Duane and Berry died. Les Dudek played harmony. The little boy on the cover is Vaylor Trucks, Butch's son. The photos were taken at a farm in Lizella, a little town close to Macon. Idlewild South was the name of the farm, I think. People from Middle Georgia were familiar with Highway 41, etc. If I'm not mistaken, this song was the 1st if not only #1 hit for the ABB.
Dickie Betts really could write and play a melody. It's a amazing the guy that wrote this did Les Brers in A Minor and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed too.
Dickie Betts stepping up with a hit shortly after Duane's demise. Playing Duanes part as well as his own. This song is basically the beginning of Southern Rock as prior to Duanes fatal motorcycle accident The Allman Bros were more blues based. This one took off like a rocket!!!!
You’re entering the post Duane era now. This band was such a huge part of our lives in the south that we weren’t sure they would survive the losses of Duane and Berry. I’ve never been so happy about the release of an album as I was this one! The ABB would go on! You’ve got to understand that information did not flow so easily in those days, and was certainly not at your fingertips as now. I remember buying my copy and heading back to the dorm at the University of South Alabama and hearing this music blasting out of dorm windows onto the quad! Such a joyous day!! I can’t think of another band that endured more than the ABB, and persevered through it all. Deaths, divorces, addictions, legal problems (busts), personnel changes, and on and on. (Skynyrd would be right behind them in the tragedy department!)
The country side of The Brothers. Not my favorite of their hits because it goes so far into their country side, but Dickey Betts guitar work on this is stellar. Thanks for the reaction!
I saw em so many times in the 70s, living in Atlanta, I lost count. Pretty sure that was Dickey on lead vocals. I was always pretty trashed back then. First time I saw em was just maybe a month before Dwayne passed. Always a joy to hear. Great memories no matter how vague. Lol...
