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Gregg Allman Searching for Simplicity Release Date: 1997 11 11 Label: 550 Music Rating:

In his initial solo recordings, Gregg Allman tried for a more eclectic pop approach than the Southern blues-rock of his day job with the Allman Brothers Band. His later solo work, done during breaks in the Brothers' career, was much closer to the traditional ABB sound. On his first solo album since the Allmans' reformation in 1989, he again makes what is essentially an Allman Brothers Band record without the other members, except new guitarist Jack Pearson, whose Duane Allman/Dickey Betts-style slide work is all over the disc. Allman signals the same-but-different approach by opening the album with an "unplugged" version of the Allmans' signature song, "Whipping Post," and though he adds horns to some tracks for a more R&B feel, the rest of the album finds him growling through standard-issue blues-rock, some of the songs originals, some covers, among them an excellent version of "Dark End of the Street" and an arrangement of John Hiatt's "Memphis in the Meantime" that makes it sound like a Betts country-rocker. Recovering from personnel changes, the Allman Brothers Band didn't release an album in 1997; this record should help tide their fans over. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Whipping Post	Allman	4:41
2	House of Blues	Smallwood, Allman	4:00
3	Come Back and Help Me	Howse, Allman, Pearson	3:35
4	Silence Ain't Golden Anymore	Boyer, Thurman	3:33
5	Rendezvous With the Blues	Hall, Douglas	3:53
6	Wolf's A-Howlin'	Boyer, Sandlin, Sandlin, Allman	4:14
7	Love the Poison	Nicholson, Wilson	3:29
8	Don't Deny Me	Williams	4:37
9	Dark End of the Street	Penn, Moman	3:16
10	Neighbor, Neighbor	Meaux	3:55
11	I've Got News for You	Alfred	4:37
12	Memphis in the Meantime	Hiatt	3:43
13	Startin' Over	Fromer, Padlo	5:51

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