Atlanta International Pop Festival: July 3 & 5, 1970
A live album released by the Allman Brothers Band. Featuring their two performances at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival in Byron, Georgia. The festival took place nearly a year before the concerts that appear on At Fillmore East. Highlights include a "Mountain Jam" on which Johnny Winter guests.
The festival took place while the Allmans were in the process of recording their second album, Idlewild South, when they appeared on July 3 as the hometown openers of the entire festival and proceeded to blow the minds of over 100,000 people -- for their last set on July 5 at 3:50 a.m. they performed in front of as many as 500,000. Musically, the July 3 set is magical.
Gregg Allman's "Every Hungry Woman," to its rightful place -- previously only having been available on an anthology. Harp player Thom Doucette, no stranger to ABB fans, is here aplenty, adding his righteous, stinging harp lines to many tracks on both nights. The way Gregg's organ playing is recorded here offers a new view of just how integral an anchor he was for both guitarists to play off. He is a monster musician and, even at this early date, was showing off his improvisational and rhythmic skills.
While it won't replace Live at the Fillmore East as the greatest live record ever made, this is an essential purchase for ABB fans, one that gives us the treat of a dignified rendering of a very important and defining moment in the band's early career. It also provides an excellent, even mind-blowing introduction to a band that was at the peak of its power.
Musicians
Duane Allman: slide guitar and lead guitar
Gregg Allman: vocals, organ
Dickey Betts: lead guitar
Berry Oakley: bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Hoochie Coochie Man"
Butch Trucks: drums
Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson: drums, congas
Thom Doucette: harmonica
Johnny Winter: slide guitar on "Mountain Jam" from July 5 show
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