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Now an instant New York Times bestseller, One Way Out is the powerful biography of The Allman Brothers Band, an oral history written with the band's participation and filled with original, never-before-published interviews as well as personal letters and correspondence. This is the most in-depth look at a legendary American rock band that has meant so much to so many for so long.
For twenty-five years, Alan Paul has covered and written about The Allman Brothers Band, conducting hundreds of interviews, riding the buses with them, attending rehearsals and countless shows. He has interviewed every living band member for this book as well as managers, roadies, and contemporaries, including: Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Jaimoe, Butch Trucks, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge, the late Allen Woody, Jimmy Herring, Eric Clapton, Bob Weir, and many others.
Tracking the band's career from their 1969 formation to today, One Way Out is filled with musical and cultural insights, riveting tales of sometimes violent personality conflicts and betrayals, drug and alcohol use, murder allegations and exoneration, tragic early deaths, road stories, and much more, including the most in-depth look at the acrimonious 2000 parting with founding guitarist Dickey Betts and behind-the-scenes information on the recording of At Fillmore East, Layla, Eat A Peach, Brothers and Sisters, and other classic albums.
Author Notes
Alan Paul is a senior writer for Slam and Guitar World magazines. While living in Beijing, China, he wrote The Expat Life column for WSJ.com from 2005-2009, for which he was named the 2008 Columnist of the Year by The National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He has written several books including Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues and Becoming a Star in Beijing and One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band.
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Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Music writer Paul catches up with the legendary band in this entertaining, compulsively readable oral history of the Allman Brothers. Through interviews with every member of the band except Duane Allman and original bassist Berry Oakley, their friends and music associates, as well as in sidebars about various aspects of the band's history and a "highly opinionated" discography, Paul traces the ups and downs of the band and its music from Duane's and Gregg's early bands in Jacksonville, Fla., the earliest days of the Allman Brothers as they developed their signature sound with the original members of the band, Duane's side projects with Derek and the Dominoes and Muscle Shoals, through the deaths of Duane and Berry in the early '70s to the various incarnations of the Allman Brothers over the past 20 years. In many ways, Duane's ghost haunts the book. As Gregg recalls of his brother: "He was always up to something. he either had his head in a book, his arm around a woman, or his arm around a guitar and it was singing to him." According to original drummer Jaimoe Johnson: "After Duane died, a lot changed. Everyone wanted to be Duane, but no one knew how to do shit except play music." On the mystique and power of the Allman Brothers' music, Dickey Betts reflects: "We seemed to have the longevity of an elephant." (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Perhaps no music journalist has written as extensively about the Allman Brothers Band as Paul, who has tracked the rock group's career for 25 years. And his deep familiarity with the band and its music shows everywhere in this fluid account. Framed as an oral history, the biography includes extensive, insightful comments not only from band members but also from players at all levels of the music business, from loyal roadies to gifted producers (including the late Tom Dowd) to money-minded record-company executives. They take us through the milestones, from the early days, when the band crisscrossed the country in the dead of winter packed into an underheated van, to the cusp of massive success and the deaths of bandleader and guitarist Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley, to the group's decision to soldier on in spite of the losses. From the beginning, Allman had a certain vision for his band that included two lead guitarists, two drummers, and the soulful, whiskey-soaked vocals of his brother, Gregg. Improbably, Duane spearheaded a long-haired, multiracial band in the Deep South in the late '60s, but he was supremely confident, at the tender age of 23, that his blues-based music would transcend any barriers. Augmented by photos and fascinating sidebars, this candid oral history has appeal beyond the Allman Brothers Band's loyal fan base.--Wilkinson, Joanne Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Guitar World magazine writer Paul (Big in China), who has written about eclectic Southern rock pioneers the Allman Brothers Band for over two decades, recounts the notoriously dysfunctional group's nearly 50-year-long saga in this extensive collection of interviews with past and present band members, collaborators, managers, producers, roadies, and even a few fans. This chronologically linear oral history offers an impressively candid, in-depth, and balanced look at the various intraband feuds, radical lineup changes, legal problems, drug abuse, and tragic deaths that have threatened to derail the band from the very beginning. The book's emotional core is the death of 27-year-old guitar genius and band cofounder Duane Allman, who perished in a 1971 motorcycle accident just as the group was becoming a commercial and creative force. Duane's spirit pervades the entire book, and he is mentioned in many of the conversations. Dan John Miller narrates with a heavy Southern drawl that hardly varies in tone from one contributor to another. This is a minor complaint about an overall satisfying audiobook. VERDICT Recommended to rock music fans seeking insight into the Allman Brothers' long and drama-filled career.-Douglas King, Univ. of South Carolina Lib., Columbia (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
