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Paul B. (PABlo) from PITTSBURGH, PA
Reviewed on 8/29/2006...

It ain't called THE ANTHOLOGY for nothin'...put it in and take a long trip down south...

Terrific Career-Spanning Retrospective

Steve Vrana | Aurora, NE | 11/03/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Two new Allman Brothers anthologies have been released recently: THE ESSENTIAL ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND on Epic and STAND BACK on Hip-O. Even a casual comparison of the two makes the choice obvious.

Epic's single-disc collection focuses on material from more recent incarnations of the band, while the Hip-O two-disc set covers the band's entire career from 1969's self-titled debut through 2002's excellent HITTIN' THE NOTE.



The material on disc one is essential even to casual fans. These sixteen tracks are drawn from the band's first four albums and features the dual guitar attack of Duane Allman and Dickie Betts, along with one of the finest white blues singers around in Greg Allman.



Disc two picks up with the band recovering from the tragic loss of Duane Allman and releasing the most commercially successful album of their career, BROTHERS AND SISTERS (No. 1, 1973), and their only top 10 hit single "Ramblin' Man." The rest of the disc culls highlights of their best material from the next three decades.



All told, this is an impressive collection of more than two-and-a-half hours of some of the best of the Allman Brothers catalog. And at the cost of a single disc set, you can't beat the price. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED"

Good, but a better collection is available

Steve Vrana | 07/15/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is an good overview of the Allman Brothers, but for the same price the remastered and expanded The Road Goes On Forever cd is much better. It has several essential cuts such as the live Hot 'Lanta and Enlightened Rogues' Pegagus that are missing here. It also has the unedited, unbutchered version of the classic instrumental Jessica (why did this cd reduce it to a 4 minute single cut here- no excuse and that alone is reason not to buy this cd). So while this has many good tracks, the other cd is better and remastered for great sound (24 bit). Also recommended is Mycology that will fill in for the later years not covered by The Road Goes On Forever."