The Allman Brothers - It's Not My Cross to Bear

3-23-09

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[janedoe1024]

Does it get any better??

[thesocialistpig]

Why did you remove your last comment? I think that is an excellent idea! I have seen the Allman brothers doe this song about 20 times live over the last 25 years, and I don't think I heard it better that night.

[socrh2]

gregg allman is quite simply an American treasure!

[uptoherewith]

duane, dicky, warren, derrick, whatever? This band is the epitome of soulful, passionate American music. The "Dead" have nothing on the "ABB". Nor does Phish, or any other imitators.

[naughtmoses]

A powerful and veritably truthful noise.

[gpollak34]

Gregg is indeed a treasure, as the post above says. For my money, the greatest rock/blues singer ever. (And I sing blues professionally) I still can't believe after all these years he wrote this too. The song stands up with the greatest of any blues songs written by Willie Dixon or the other great blues writers. Really could be his signature song. All that world weariness...

[Geo69xr]

I dislike ? 1 homersexual

[applejak2000]

@thesocialistpig

I think you are right = you'd be hard pressed to find a better version of this- (and I've heard several live versions)---I'm gonna extract this to CD and play it my car CD player: FUCKING loud loud loud !!!

[zutekeela]

i'm wif you Bob, I was 18 in Florduh, (the plywood state), and watch ABB play at the auditorium in Ft Myers, 4 times before they cut their first LP, no band could touch them Duane Rules !!!

[boblackey1]

@19tractor52 Yep it is a FACT!! The original lineup is hands down the best including the one today who is calling itself the ABB.

[19tractor52]

@boblackey1 I agree with you--have seen most line-ups since 1970 (I was 18). No music takes me back to my youth like the ABB. Long live Duane-he touched me like no other guitarist--I have no idea why..

[boblackey1]

@SteveGaines Yeah in a way maybe it would have been better if I missed the original lineup. To me the closest to the original was the way the Warren, Dickey, Woody lineup sounded in the early 90's. Dickey was about as hot as he was with Duane, Warren wasn't as good as Duane but put his heart into it and Woody seemed to tap into what Berry Oakely did years ago. What we have today is a very good group of musicians but they just don't really nail that ABB vibe and sound like a tribute band. Sorry.

[SteveGaines]

@boblackey1 That's the point...How many people EVER saw Duane and Dickey together?..If you did my hat's off to you!

[boblackey1]

@SteveGaines All that may be true but nobody can't find a blues solo from Warren Haynes or Derek Trucks that tops anything Betts did back in the original band. Let's say Dickey's solo on Jelly, Jelly on Brothers and Sisters. Warren or Derek have never equaled or tops that solo and NONE of them come close to doing what Duane and Dickey do on Fillmore East or Eat a Peach. Today's ABB is a mean shadow of its former glory and those who find this version so hot clearly never saw the original ABB.