Duane Allman - Anthology (CD)

All Music Guide

This double album was the first fully annotated rock anthology, complete with biographical essay and song analysis. It probably would have succeeded regardless, but the presence of Derek and the Dominos' "Layla," at just the point that it was becoming a rock standard helped push the sales even higher. The highlights, electric and acoustic, are too numerous to detail "Goin' Down Slow," a glorious finished fragment from Duane Allman's attempted solo album; the B.B. King medley played by the preAllman Brothers Band, and the Hour Glass in one of their few unfettered trips into the studio. There are also shining moments playing behind others, including "The Weight" by Aretha Franklin and "Hey Jude" by Wilson Pickett, plus work with King Curtis (on whose "Games People Play" listeners hear Allman playing an electric sitar). Other highlights include Cowboy, Johnny Jenkins ("Rollin' Stone"), John Hammond ("Shake for Me"), Boz Scaggs, the 13minute epic "Loan Me a Dime," and Delaney Bonnie Fri...ends, rounded out by some great moments with the Allman Brothers Band. Bruce Eder, All Music Guide Read more Less