An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: First Set

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An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: First Set
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Live album by
ReleasedJune 9, 1992
RecordedDecember 1991, March 1992
StudioMixing, Criteria Studios Miami Florida
Genre Southern rock
Length74:10
Label Epic
Producer Tom Dowd
The Allman Brothers Band chronology
Live at Great Woods
(1992)
An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: First Set
(1992)
Where It All Begins
(1994)
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An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: First Set is the thirteenth album by the rock group the Allman Brothers Band. It was recorded live in December 1991 and March 1992, and released in 1992.

Contents

An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: First Set was the first live Allman Brothers Band album, and their third album overall, to feature Warren Haynes on guitar and Allen Woody on bass. Haynes and Woody had joined the group when it reformed in 1989.

Track listing

  1. "End of the Line" (Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Allen Woody, John Jaworowicz) – 5:43
  2. "Blue Sky" (Dickey Betts) – 8:39
  3. "Get On with Your Life" (Gregg Allman) – 7:58
  4. "Southbound" (Dickey Betts) – 7:52
  5. "Midnight Blues" (Blind Willie McTell, Dickey Betts) – 5:14
  6. "Melissa" (Gregg Allman, Steve Alaimo) – 5:28
  7. "Nobody Knows" (Dickey Betts) – 15:37
  8. "Dreams" (Gregg Allman) – 11:36
  9. "Revival" (Dickey Betts) – 5:56

Personnel

The Allman Brothers Band

Additional musicians

Production

Recording dates

Charts

Chart (1992)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [3] 80

See also

An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band: 2nd Set

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