Play All Night Playlist Project Chapter 5 Duane Returns South for Good

“Stick your papers and contracts up your ass. We’re out of here.” Duane Allman

Welcome back to Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads of Southern Music, History, and Culture.

I’ve just returned from a truly amazing time at Roots Rock Revival, what i can best describe as a weeklong musical adventure, a participatory music festival founded 10 years ago by Allman Brothers Band Butch “the Freight Train” Trucks.

I will post more on this incredible experience, but suffice it to say I’ve never met so many people who carry the spirit of what I think of when I say “Long Live the ABB.” The Allman Brothers Band didn’t end with Duane Allman, it was just a beginning.

Here’s one example… This is Amitav and Karan, they traveled from India to attend Roots. And they ABBsolutely RIPPED on guitar.

I’ll share more later in the week.

9th Installment of the Play All Night Playlist Project

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Stick your papers and contracts up your ass. We’re out of here.

Duane Allman

This quote really sums up Chapter 5 for me. It covers a pretty active five-month stretch in Duane’s career—April through September 1968–when he abandons Los Angeles/Hour Glass and moves back to the South for good.

What precipitated Duane’s departure from California happened dur­ing a spring 1968 tour in the East and Southeast. The band opened for Big Brother and the Holding Company in St. Louis, a mainstay on the Allman Joys’ touring retinue. The tour took them as far north as Cleveland and as far south as Jacksonville.¹

In April the band pooled its money and visited FAME in Muscle Shoals. It was familiar turf for Paul Hornsby and Johnny Sandlin. Their old bandmate Eddie Hinton was on staff, and Sandlin had played at FAME before joining Hour Glass.

Liberty Records hated the demos causing Duane to quit the band in frustration. By the end of the year, he secured a permanent position for himself at Rick Hall’s FAME studio in Muscle Shoals.

My thoughts on the tracks are below