The Allman Brothers Band’s legendary 1971 live album At Filmore East will be available on an expanded six-disc box set on July 29. Universal Music Enterprises and Mercury Records will release The 1971 Filmore East Recordings, produced by Bill Levenson, which includes fifteen unreleased tracks.
The four sets took place on the weekend of March 12-13, 1971, at promoter Bill Graham’s New York club, the Filmore East. The shows were recorded by Tom Dowd of Atlantic Records, who also recorded Layla for Derek & the Dominos. In addition to the four sets from March, the new release will also include a performance from the venue’s closing night, June 27, 1971.
“That weekend in March of ‘71 when we recorded At Fillmore East, most of the time it clicked,” said drummer Butch Trucks. “We were finally starting to catch up with what we were listening to. We had lived together…we got in trouble together; we all just moved as a unit. And then, when we got onstage to play, that’s what it was all about—and it just happened to all come together that weekend.”
The Allman Brothers Band will appear at the Montage Mountain Peach Music Festival in Scranton, Pennsylvania in August and recently announced a six show residency at the Beacon Theater in New York this October.
The 1971 Filmore East Recordings Track List:
CD 1
March 12, 1971 – First Show
1. Statesboro Blues (previously unreleased)
2. Trouble No More (previously unreleased)
3. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’ (previously unreleased)
4. Done Somebody Wrong (previously unreleased)
5. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (previously unreleased)
6. You Don’t Love Me (previously unreleased)
CD 2
March 12, 1971 – Second Show
1. Statesboro Blues (previously unreleased)
2. Trouble No More
3. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’ (previously unreleased)
4. Done Somebody Wrong
5. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (previously unreleased)
6. You Don’t Love Me
7. Whipping Post (previously unreleased)
8. Hot ‘Lanta
CD 3
March 13, 1971 – First Show
1. Statesboro Blues
2. Trouble No More
3. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
4. Done Somebody Wrong (previously unreleased)
5. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
6. You Don’t Love Me
7. Whipping Post (previously unreleased)
CD 4
March 13, 1971 – Second Show – Part 1
1. Statesboro Blues (previously unreleased)
2. One Way Out (previously unreleased)
3. Stormy Monday
4. Hot ‘Lanta
5. Whipping Post
CD 5
March 13, 1971 – Second Show – Part 2
1. Mountain Jam
2. Drunken Hearted Boy (with Elvin Bishop)
CD 6
June 27, 1971 – Fillmore East Closing Show
Introduction by Bill Graham (previously unreleased)
1. Statesboro Blues
2. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
3. Done Somebody Wrong
4. One Way Out
5. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
6. Midnight Rider
7. Hot Lanta
8. Whipping Post
9. You Don’t Love Me