At Fillmore East
Live album by The Allman Brothers Band
Released	July 1971
Recorded	March 12–March 13, 1971, at Fillmore East, New York City
Genre	Blues-rock Southern rock Jam band
Length	76:26
Label	Capricorn Records
Producer(s)	Tom Dowd
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B-) link Q July 1998 Rolling Stone August 2002
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Idlewild South (1970)	At Fillmore East (1971)	Eat a Peach (1972)

At Fillmore East is a blues-rock double live album by The Allman Brothers Band, released in July of 1971 (see 1971 in music). Their breakthrough success, At Fillmore East remains one of the top-selling albums in the band's catalogue, is one of the critical heights of their career, and is generally accepted as one of the greatest live recordings in the history of rock music.^[1] Cover of the Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East. ... A live album is a musical recording containing recorded concert performances. ... The Allman Brothers Band is a band from Macon, Georgia labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the principal architects of Southern rock. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in leap years). ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Fillmore East was promoter Bill Grahams rock palace in the East Village area of New York City. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Blues Rock or Blues-rock is a fusion genre of music which combines elements of the blues with rock and roll. ... Southern rock is a style of rock music that was very popular in the 1970s, and still retains a large fan base to the present. ... The term jam band is commonly used to describe psychedelic rock-influenced bands whose concerts largely consist of bands reinterpreting their songs as springboards into extended improvisational pieces of music. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Capricorn Records was launched by Phil Walden in 1969 in Macon, Georgia (with offices in Atlanta). ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Tom Dowd (October 20, 1925 - October 27, 2002) was a famous and influential American recording engineer and producer who died from emphysema. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... Robert Christgau (sometimes abbreviated in print to Xgau), born April 18, 1942, is an American essayist, music journalist, and rock critic. ... Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... This article is about the music magazine. ... Image File history File links 5_stars. ... The Allman Brothers Band is a band from Macon, Georgia labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the principal architects of Southern rock. ... Idlewild South is the sophomore album of The Allman Brothers Band, released in 1970. ... Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by the American Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band; it was the last to include founder member and lead slide guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident while the album was being recorded. ... Blues Rock or Blues-rock is a fusion genre of music which combines elements of the blues with rock and roll. ... A double album is an audio album of sufficient length that two units of the medium in which it is sold (especially records and compact discs) are necessary to contain the entirety of it. ... A live album is a musical recording containing recorded concert performances. ... The Allman Brothers Band is a band from Macon, Georgia labeled by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the principal architects of Southern rock. ... See also: 1970 in music, other events of 1971, 1972 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // February 8 - Bob Dylans hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New Yorks Academy of Music. ...

History

Recorded at the Fillmore East music club, the legendary rock venue in New York City, on Friday and Saturday March 12, 1971–March 13, 1971, it showcased the band's mixture of blues, Southern rock and jazz. The cover of Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues" which opens the set showcases Duane Allman's legendary slide guitar work in open E Tuning. "Whipping Post" became the standard for a long, epic jam that never lost interest (opening in 11/8 time, unusual territory for a rock band), while the ethereal-to-furious "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed", with its harmonized melody, Latin feel and burning drive invited comparisons with John Coltrane (especially Duane's solo-ending pull-offs, a direct nod to the legendary saxophonist). Fillmore East was promoter Bill Grahams rock palace in the East Village area of New York City. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... The blues is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that typically follows a twelve-bar structure. ... Southern rock is a style of rock music that was very popular in the 1970s, and still retains a large fan base to the present. ... Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ... Statesboro Blues is a blues song written by Blind Willie McTell; the title refers to the town of Statesboro, Georgia. ... Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) was an American lead guitarist. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed is the fourth song on The Allman Brothers Bands 1970 album Idlewild South. ... John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967), nicknamed Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. ... A pull-off is a stringed-instrument playing technique performed (usually on an electric guitar) by pulling a fretting finger off the fingerboard. ... A saxophonist is a musician who plays the saxophone. ...

The album was produced by Tom Dowd, who condensed the running time of various songs, occasionally even merging multiple performances onto one track. At Fillmore East peaked at #13 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart. In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Tom Dowd (October 20, 1925 - October 27, 2002) was a famous and influential American recording engineer and producer who died from emphysema. ... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ...

Several songs recorded during the same set of shows, including "One Way Out", "Trouble No More", and the memorable "Mountain Jam", were later released on Eat a Peach, the latter spanning two sides of the double album. Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by the American Southern rock group The Allman Brothers Band; it was the last to include founder member and lead slide guitar player Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident while the album was being recorded. ...

Those songs were later included in their entirety, along with uncut versions of some, re-edited versions of others, and some previously omitted tracks, on a new release of the Fillmore material entitled The Fillmore Concerts. "Stormy Monday" gained back a harmonica solo, and "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'", "Midnight Rider" and "Drunken Hearted Boy" were now included as well.

2003 saw the release of a two-disc edition of At Fillmore East. It compiled all the released versions of the Fillmore material, some material from the collection Duane Allman: An Anthology and the Dreams box set, and remixed the material with a better soundstage than the 1992 release The Fillmore Concerts.

In 2003 the TV network VH1 named At Fillmore East the 59th greatest album of all time. It was also ranked #49 by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in the same year. In 2004, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. The song "Whipping Post" is part of the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list.^[2] A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... This article is about the magazine. ... The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003. ... The Great Hall interior. ... The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings which are culturally, historically or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll is based on the permanent exhibit of the same name. ...

None of the pictures for the cover of the band were actually taken at the Fillmore East. The photographer Jim Marshall took the cover shot at the band´s headquarters in Macon, Georgia.

Track listing

At Fillmore East

1. "Statesboro Blues" (Will McTell) – 4:17
2. "Done Somebody Wrong" (Clarence L. Lewis, Bobby Robinson, Elmore James) – 4:33
3. "Stormy Monday" (T. Bone Walker) – 8:44
4. "You Don't Love Me" (Willie Cobbs) – 19:15
5. "Hot 'Lanta" (Gregg Allman, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson) – 5:17
6. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) – 13:04
7. "Whipping Post" (G. Allman) – 22:56

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The Fillmore Concerts

Disc one

1. "Statesboro Blues" (Willie McTell) – 4:15
2. "Trouble No More" (McKinley Morganfield) – 3:46
3. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (G. Allman) – 3:20
4. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) – 12:59
5. "One Way Out" (Marshall Sehorn, Sonny Boy Williamson, James) – 4:55
6. "Done Somebody Wrong" (Lewis, Levy, James) – 4:11
7. "Stormy Monday" (Walker) – 10:19
8. "You Don't Love Me" (Cobbs) – 19:24

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Disc two

1. "Hot 'Lanta" (D. Allman, G. Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 5:11
2. "Whipping Post" (G. Allman) – 22:37
3. "Mountain Jam" (Donovan Leitch, D. Allman, G. Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 33:47
4. "Drunken Hearted Boy" (Elvin Bishop) – 7:33

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At Fillmore East [Deluxe Edition]

Disc one

1. "Statesboro Blues" (McTell) – 4:17
2. "Trouble No More" (Morganfield) – 3:43
3. "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" (G. Allman) – 3:27
4. "Done Somebody Wrong" (James) – 4:33
5. "Stormy Monday" (Walker) – 8:48
6. "One Way Out" (Sehorn, Williamson, James) – 4:56
7. "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Betts) – 13:04
8. "You Don't Love Me" (Cobbs) – 19:24
9. "Midnight Rider" (G. Allman) – 2:55

Disc two

1. "Hot 'Lanta" (D. Allman, G. Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 5:20
2. "Whipping Post" (G. Allman) – 22:53
3. "Mountain Jam" (Leitch, D. Allman, G.Allman, Betts, Oakley, Johanson, Trucks) – 33:39
4. "Drunken Hearted Boy" (Bishop) – 7:33

Credits

• Duane Allman – lead guitar, slide guitar
• Gregg Allman – organ, piano, vocals
• Dickey Betts – guitar, vocals
• Berry Oakley – bass guitar
• Jai Johanny Johanson – drums, congas, timbales
• Butch Trucks – drums, tympani

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Special Guests

• Thom Doucette – Harmonica ("Don't Keep Me Wonderin'", "Done Somebody Wrong", "Stormy Monday" and "You Don't Love Me")
• Randolph "Juicy" Carter – Saxophone ("Hot 'Lanta")

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Special Guests (The Fillmore Concerts)

• Bobby Caldwell – Percussion ("Drunken Hearted Boy")
• Elvin Bishop – Vocals ("Drunken Hearted Boy")
• Steve Miller – Piano ("Drunken Hearted Boy")

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Production (At Fillmore East)

• Tom Dowd – Producer, Liner Notes
• Aaron Baron – Engineer
• Larry Dahlstrom – Engineer
• Dennis M. Drake – Mastering
• Jim Marshall – Photography

Tom Dowd (October 20, 1925 - October 27, 2002) was a famous and influential American recording engineer and producer who died from emphysema. ...

Production (The Fillmore Concerts)

• Tom Dowd – Producer
• Jay Mark – Mixer
• Dan Kincaid – Digital Mastering
• Bill Levenson – Executive Producer
• Kirk West – Associate Producer
• Terri Tierney – Project Coordination
• Richard Bauer – Art Direction
• Jim Marshall – Graphic Concept
• Jimmy Guterman – Liner Notes

References

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External links

• Collected reviews
• BBC review