The Allman Brothers - Double Cross - Non-Album Tracks (1972)

So far, I've managed to compile at least one stray tracks album for each year of the Allman Brothers Band's classic era. Here's the next one, dealing with 1972.

The first five songs all come from the "super deluxe edition" of the "Brothers and Sisters" album. That album was released in mid-1973, but all of it was recorded in 1972. "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" is a cover song. "Early Morning Blues" is closely related to it. That song, in turn, morphed into "Jelly Jelly," which actually made the "Brothers and Sisters" album.

The other songs are generally covers too, though I think "Double Cross" and the instrumentals are originals.

As I've mentioned previously, the band didn't have a wide variety of songs they played in concert, and instead focused on long versions of songs with lots of variety in the soloing from performance to performance. But I did find a couple of rarities done in concert in 1972. The first is just called "Instrumental Jam" on bootlegs, since that's what it is. If anyone know of a better name, please let me know. The concert it comes from is an excellent soundboard, so the sound quality is great.

"Don't Lie to Me" features Elvin Bishop on vocals. So I've stuck it at the end as a quasi-bonus track, since it's not exactly the Allman Brothers Band. But note that Bishop sings a song ("Drunken Hearted Boy") on the expanded release of "At Fillmore West," so at least in that case Bishop on lead vocals was considered legit.

The good news is that "Brothers and Sisters" was a huge hit in 1973, making the band one of the biggest bands at the time. The bad news is the band couldn't deal with their fame and success. They barely scraped together one album in 1975 before breaking up for a few years. So this is the last stray tracks album I can make from the band's classic era.

01 I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (Allman Brothers Band)
02 Double Cross (Allman Brothers Band)
03 A Minor Jam [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
04 Done Somebody Wrong (Allman Brothers Band)
05 Early Morning Blues (Allman Brothers Band)
06 Instrumental Jam (Allman Brothers Band)
07 Don't Lie to Me (Allman Brothers Band with Elvin Bishop)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15123864/TAllmanBB_1972_DoubleCrss_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo is of the band in a 1972 concert in New York City.