Artist: THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
Album: LIVE AT THE BEACON THEATRE (DVD)

Release date: 2003
Media type: DVD

Rock legends The Allman Brothers Band perform live at New York City's Beacon Theatre in this two disc, three hour set of old and new material. The band have a yearly residency at the Beacon, taking to the stage every March to deliver their heartwarming tunes, and now this mammoth event has finally been captured for posterity. Tracks include "Melissa," "Whipping Post," "Midnight Rider," and many more.

“The Allman Brothers' strong, occasionally startling set on this DVD may soften those intransigent purists who won't accept the band without its original (and now fired) guitarist, Dickey Betts. The group's classic dual-guitar sound is capably covered by returning member Warren Haynes and rising star Derek Trucks (young nephew of Allmans' drummer Butch Trucks), who sounds as if he's lived and breathed the late Duane Allman's playbook since he left the cradle. Derek's barbed riffs feed the textured funk of "Statesboro Blues" and get some mileage out of filler like "Come and Go Blues," but the blissful-looking fellow's supreme moment comes when he joins Haynes in a blisteringly beautiful attack on gospel stunner "Soul Shine." Some of the material here borders on the pedestrian, but vocalist-keyboardist Gregg Allman's grizzled mastery of the blues can still lead this legendary band through some epic mysteries.” -Tom Keogh

TRACKLIST DVD:

1."Ain't Wastin' Time No More"
2."Black Hearted Woman"
3."Statesboro Blues"
4."Woman Across the River"
5."Change is Gonna Come"
6."Maydell"
7."Come and Go Blues"
8."Rockin' Horse"
9."Desdemona"
10."Don't Keep Me Wonderin'"
11."Midnight Rider"
12."Soulshine"
13."The High Cost of Low Living"
14."Leave My Blues at Home"
15."Old Before My Time"
16."The Same Thing"
17."Melissa"
18."Instrumental Illness"
19."Worried Down with the Blues"
20."Dreams"
21."One Way Out"
22."Whipping Post"

LINE-UP:

The Allman Brothers Band
Gregg Allman - keyboards
Oteil Burbridge - bass
Warren Haynes - guitar
Jaimoe - drums
Butch Trucks - drums
Derek Trucks - guitar