Eat A Peach by The Allman Brothers (Vinyl record album review)

Album name: Eat A Peach

Group name: The Allman Brothers

Year: 1972

Number of discs: two

Label: Warner Bros. Records

Collection: Brenner / Gessner

Distinguishing characteristics: “G” written on top left of album, indicating that my father owned this record

Buy it:

Amazon (Vinyl): $49.98

Amazon (CD): $9.15

My review

Level of familiarity before listening

I’ve been listening to the Allman Brothers for decades, but don’t know that I’ve ever listened to this double record.

What I expected

I reviewed a different Allman Brothers collection a few weeks ago, so what I expected was similar to that.

What it was actually like

Similar! Of course, as this is not a compilation, I couldn’t expect it to include every hit and classic song that they recorded, so some favorites like Ramblin’ Man and Jessica weren’t there – but Melissa and Blue Sky were.

I was a little concerned that the comically long Mountain Jam, split over sides 2 and 4, was going to put me to sleep, as I generally don’t love jam bands and tend to prefer that rock music be delivered as actual songs, but I ended up thinking that Mountain Jam was excellent, and wished that it had been the front and back sides of a single record, to make it easier to listen to the whole thing.

Grade

5/5: love it