Welcome back to another edition of Long Live the ABB: observations from the crossroads of Southern music, history, and culture.
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Here’s the 6th installment in the Play All Night Playlist Project. My idea is to give some musical context to what you’re reading in the book.
It comes out of my own needs when I read music books. I know it can be somewhat overwhelming to have so much *new* music at my fingertips and I thought I’d close that gap some by posting playlists to help y’all get familiar with the music in the book.
This is the first of three playlists to accompany Chapter 4 of Play All Night! “Frustration in California (1967-8).”
The prospects seemed bleak for Duane to make the leap from success in a regional cover band to the professional world of Los Angeles music making. Though discouraged after failures in in New York and Nashville, John Loudermilk’s encouragement was validating. Duane was the undisputed leader of the Allman Joys, but his creative input remained limited to guitar and arrangements. He would eventually learn that originality came in two forms, songwriting and arranging. It is in this era he matured as an arranger, which helped him further develop his artistic voice.2from Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East
The playlist focuses on the California rock scene that Duane and Gregg were part of when they moved to Los Angeles and recorded as Hour Glass.
As always, this is not comprehensive. I mentioned most (if not all) of the bands in Play All Night, which is the main reason certain songs and artists made the cut.
