Two of the best guitar players ever in the same band, Duane Allman and Dickey Betts.
Interesting that the graphic shows both Duane and Gregg Allman. I’m pretty sure “Jessica” was written after Duane’s death in 1971 and was released in 1973.
GREAT track - one of their best!
This song reminds me of when I was young and I would walk through fields with grasshoppers jumping everywhere and butterflies would flutter about.
I got to see The Allman Brothers in concert one time with Bonnie Raitt in the stadium at UMASS on a hot summer day back in 1980...:)
That was shortly after I got out of the Navy, first rock concert I ever went to. My first concert was supposed to be The Who in Providence, RI in December 1979, but all those people got crushed in a stampede earlier that month.
Duane Allman did not play on Jessica, he died in October of 1971 from a motorcycle accident.
It takes me back.
Way back.
Skynyrd. Allman Bros. Marshall Tucker. Janis. Redeye. Kristofferson. Many others. Memory fogs, but that music...
Oh, Yeah. Good stuff.
Incredible band.
❤️ that tune. Boy does that bring back memories. Thanks for posting simpson96.
Before I discovered Rush, the Allman Brothers were my favorite band.
This song, Jessica, will be the last song played at my homegoing.
Made me adore James, Richard and Jeremy the more for playing it on Top Gear.
Michael Allman, Duane’s son, is a performer too. He has a voice like burnt honey in whiskey but also bad habits. It’s a shame.
Thanks for the excellent tune.
Great writers and players. If it is “Idlewild South” the band’s farm (on a pond) mentioned— that was off 80 West of Macon near Lizella. Around the time of that album’s so named. Then they were out NE of Macon later.
Long time ago, and a whole lot of.... well, chemicals consumed, and very young deaths. Tom Dowd’s producing of Idlewild South put them on the map (Criteria Studios, Miami).
A friend of mine has Jessica for his phone’s ringtone.
Church Levell’s piano solo really sets it off.
“Jessica” = back roads through the south in a 1970 VW bus (yes, really), windows down, wind blowing through in the heat of July, kudzu everywhere, cicadas in the background, “traveling” music. A moment in time, captured ...
Loved those guys along with Charley Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. They were all great back in those days!!
After their father was killed their mother sent them to a military boarding school so she could work full time while also going to college to get a CPA. They only spent a couple of years there before their mother’s situation changed and they changed schools but a man I used to work with was an alumnus of that school and he knew both of the Allmans. He swears he remembers them sitting on samsonite chairs on the stage of the school gym trying to learn to play guitar and Duane was showing Greg the licks for Richard Berry’s “Louie, Louie.”
I guess everybody’s got to start somewheres.