Low Country Blues

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Low Country Blues
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Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 18, 2011
Studio Village Recorder, Los Angeles, California
Genre Blues rock
Length52:32
Label Rounder
Producer T Bone Burnett
Gregg Allman chronology
Searching for Simplicity
(1997)
Low Country Blues
(2011)
Gregg Allman Live: Back to Macon, GA
(2015)
Professional ratings
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Low Country Blues is the seventh studio album by Gregg Allman, and the last studio album to be released during his lifetime. It was produced by T Bone Burnett, and was released through Rounder Records on January 18, 2011. The album reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top Blues Albums charts, making it Allman's highest-charting album. [1] It was nominated for a 2011 Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. [3]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Floating Bridge" (John Adam Estes) – 4:45
  2. "Little by Little" (Melvin London) – 2:45
  3. "Devil Got My Woman" (Nehemiah "Skip" James) – 4:52
  4. "I Can't Be Satisfied" (Muddy Waters) – 3:31
  5. "Blind Man" (Don D. Robey, Joseph Wade Scott) – 3:46
  6. "Just Another Rider" (Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes) – 5:39
  7. "Please Accept My Love" (B.B. King, Sam Ling) – 3:07
  8. "I Believe I'll Go Back Home" (Traditional, arranged by Gregg Allman and T Bone Burnett) – 3:49
  9. "Tears, Tears, Tears" (Amos Milburn) – 4:54
  10. "My Love Is Your Love" (Samuel Maghett) – 4:14
  11. "Checking on My Baby" (Otis Rush) – 4:06
  12. "Rolling Stone" (Traditional, arranged by Gregg Allman, T Bone Burnett and Mac Rebennack) – 7:04

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

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