The Allman Brothers Band - BBC In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 6-25-1991

It seems that just about anyone who is anyone in the music world performed for the BBC at least once (though sometimes the recordings didn't survive). A case in point is the Allman Brothers Band. They're so closely associated with the U.S., and especially the South, that it seems surprising they toured Europe at all. But here we are, with an unreleased BBC concert in London in 1991.

This happens to be a particularly good time for a BBC concert from them, in my opinion. Sure, their peak years were in the early 1970s, especially while Duane Allman was still alive. But they were still a solid band for decades after that. The 1980s were kind of a lost decade for them. But they reunited in the late 1980s and put out a good new album in 1990, "Seven Turns," and another one in 1991, "Shades of Two Worlds." Their creativity slowed way down after that, with only two more new studio albums for the remaining fifteen or so years the band stayed together. The band also lost a lot when Dickey Betts was kicked out in 2000, apparently after a few years of causing problems.

But in 1991, the band was still firing on all cylinders, and proud to play their new songs. Six of the 14 songs here are from their 1990 or 1991 albums, and they're all pretty good.

The sound quality is excellent, as you'd expect from the BBC. And while the BBC often edited concerts down to an hour or so, this time they didn't, since the concert is nearly two hours long.

This album is an hour and 56 minutes long.

01 Don't Want You No More - It's Not My Cross to Bear (Allman Brothers Band)
02 Statesboro Blues (Allman Brothers Band)
03 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
04 Blue Sky (Allman Brothers Band)
05 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
06 Low Down Dirty Mean (Allman Brothers Band)
07 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
08 End of the Line (Allman Brothers Band)
09 Loaded Dice (Allman Brothers Band)
10 Southbound (Allman Brothers Band)
11 Jessica [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
12 Good Clean Fun (Allman Brothers Band)
13 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
14 Gambler's Roll (Allman Brothers Band)
15 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
16 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
17 One Way Out (Allman Brothers Band)
18 talk (Allman Brothers Band)
19 Kind of Bird [Instrumental] (Allman Brothers Band)
20 Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band)

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It's really hard to find a photo of all the key members of the Allman Brothers Band on stage, since they usually were spread apart from each other. It's even harder to find such a photo specifically from 1991. I did find one, taken at a rather unusual angle. Not the greatest, so let me know if you have something better. This was taken at a concert in Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, in June 1991.